Lead Warehouse and Transport People Team Manager

What’s in it for you

We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work.  These include but aren’t limited to:

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 10% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 20 days plus a personal day rising to 22 days after 12 months (plus Bank holidays)
• Request flexible working from day one
• Get 10% off and 15% at pay day weekends - save up to £2,000 a year with your Colleague Clubcard with an additional card to share with family outside your home
• Access to free wellbeing services with a range of resources to support your mind, body, and life
• Life cover of five times your pay and an award-winning pension with matching contributions up to 7.5%
• Benefits to suit you, choose what you use - from discounts and shares to cycle to work schemes
• Uniform provided and policies to support you for all of life’s moments, big and small
• Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here. 
• Click here to read more about the benefits we have available for our colleagues

About the role

This role is about managing a team of People Team Managers as well as leading our people routines in the Distribution Centre to create a great place to work.

• Lead and manage the Distribution Warehouse and Transport People Team Managers. Ensure that both Warehouse and Transport Team Managers receive the same service level from your Warehouse and Transport People Team Managers across all shifts.
• Lead the overall Distribution Centre colleague experience, ensuring everyone has access to excellent facilities, tools and training/development opportunities.
• Lead the Distribution Centre payroll routines, ensuring we pay every colleague accurately and on time and routines are followed.
• Lead the attendance process in the Distribution Centre.
• Be a key part of the lead team in the Distribution Centre, providing people insight to help them make the right decisions for their shifts/departments.
• Work closely with the Planning Manager and Lead Transport Manager to understand the skill and resource requirements needed, working internally and externally locally to build a local resourcing & retention strategy for the Distribution Centre.

You will be responsible for

Leading people processes and policies in the Distribution Centre by:

• Leading, inspiring and managing a team of People Team Managers who provide a professional service to our colleagues and management team.
• Partnering with the recruitment hub to ensure the candidate experience in the Distribution Centre is excellent and we have a consistent approach to vacancy management on each shift/department as well as being clear on the future opportunities and how we can approach these together.
• Networking locally with educational establishments, job centre, agency etc to ensure can attract and retain diverse talent.
• Work closely with the Planning Manager to ensure flexible working requests or adjustments made for colleagues are seamlessly implemented to support attendance and culture.
• Leading the culture of flexible working in the Distribution Centre, coaching Managers on the benefits of this.
• Leading right to work in the Distribution Centre, ensuring we meet our legal obligations and Tesco policy is always adhered to.
• Establishing and maintaining a close partnership with the Colleague Relations Partner, ensuring the team are trained to deliver their roles, impartiality is maintained and we manage colleague relations issues effectively at all times.
• Establishing and maintaining a close partnership with the People Partner, understanding their unique role with talent, culture and capability.
• Leading people impacting change in the Distribution Centre with the wider Lead team.
• Understanding the local labour market, using this insight to shape the local recruitment & retention strategy, liaising with the central recruitment teams as required.
• Ensuring colleagues receive the best on-going training at the right time to develop their skills, supporting a team who are multiskilled to deliver for our customers.
• Offering advice, guidance and coaching to Managers where required on all people processes, policies, site agreement and routines.
• Executing informal and formal meetings as part of our grievance, discipline, appeals & protector line/complaints process.
• Lead the Distribution Centres wage routines, ensuring all colleagues are paid accurately and on time.
• Lead all people communication in the Distribution Centre to ensure colleague engagement and understanding.
• Reviewing our people data/insight for the Distribution Centre to look at improvement areas and celebrate success.
• Developing own operational and leadership skills, actively seeking feedback.
• Following our Business Code of Conduct and General Data Protection Regulations, always acting with integrity and due diligence.

You will need

Managers are at the heart of our colleague experience. They make sure that everyone’s welcome at Tesco and create a culture where colleagues feel able to perform at their best.

These behaviours give you everything you need to be clear on what’s expected of you and to feel confident in your role.

Care for Your Team so that our colleagues can be their best everyday

Be Inclusive so that everyone feels welcome at Tesco

Drive high performance to make sure we Win Together and you and to feel confident in your role.

Our Winning Together Behaviours

Believe in each other…

because when trust is high we can move at pace.
Building trust in teams and enabling end to end collaboration across Tesco

Stay Curious…

because the best ideas come from thinking differently and hearing every voice in the room

Be Brave…

because when we take calculated risks, when our purpose is clear we feel connected to it. Doing the right thing and creating safe spaces where colleagues can test, learn and speak up. 

Live 20/80…

because focusing on the few things that will make the biggest difference is how we win. 

About us

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet. 

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we’re a place where Everyone’s Welcome.

We know life looks a little different for each of us. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome chats about flexible working. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we are committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

Please note

Tesco will only recruit individuals who have passed the school leaver’s age. To find out the school leavers age for your country please click here 

We can only accept candidates over the age of 18 if the role requires working before 6:15 am or after 9:45 pm or involves working in areas such as the warehouse, beers, wines & spirits, counters, bakery and driving roles.

On the occasions where we have high volumes of applicants, some roles may close earlier than the advertised end date in order for us to manage all of the applicants appropriately. We will only be able to offer individual feedback to those candidates who attend an interview.

For more information about us please visit www.tescoplc.com