People Team Manager - Nights

What’s in it for you

We’re recruiting for our new, exciting distribution centre in Hinckley! This is your chance to be part of something big from day one. If you’re looking for a role and opportunities to grow, our People Team Manager position is the perfect fit. You’ll be joining a brand‑new site, state-of-the-art distribution setup and the chance to help shape the future of our operation right from the start.

We are currently recruiting for Full Time shift as stated below:

Night Rota - 22:00 to 06:00 5 days out of 7 (including weekend work)

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

Part of the Distribution Centre Management Team that provides great services to our stores ensuring customers have great availability and standards of product by being a Manager that leads a team of colleagues who feel safe and love working at Tesco whilst operating an efficient and legal people operation. You will be responsible for managing the end to end formal processes for colleagues.

You will be responsible for

Leading and delivering people processes and policies in the Distribution Centre across all shifts by: 

• Creating an inspiring, welcoming and inclusive working environment for everyone, whilst ensuring that colleagues are fully trained and validated in their roles. Celebrate success and recognise others.
• Delivering the shopping trip for customers by coaching others to play their part.
• Promoting a culture of safety first through role modelling safety leadership at all times. 
• Managing and delivering attendance routines and process in the Distribution Centre, whilst supporting colleagues to attend work, helping them to plan time away and take advantage of our time away from work policies. 
• Leading and managing the overall colleague experience in the Distribution Centre, ensuring there is a warm, inclusive environment, where difference is celebrated and everyone is welcome. 
• Managing the recruitment and induction process in the Distribution Centre, ensuring colleagues receive a warm welcome to Tesco and the best training to set them up for success. 
• 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. 
• Executing informal meetings as part of our grievance process and formal investigation and disciplinary meetings.
• Manage the Distribution Centre wage routines, ensuring all colleagues are paid accurately and on time. 
• Manage the People Support Administrators within the Distribution Centre and work with them to oversee all people communication in the Distribution Centre for full colleague engagement and understanding. 
• Reviewing our people data and insight for the Distribution Centre to look at opportunities for improvement and celebrate success. 
• Developing own operational and leadership skills, actively seeking feedback.
• Partner with third parties within the centre to ensure a consistent colleague experience is embedded throughout the centre. 

You will need

• Strong people management skills and experience.
• To be organised and manage deadlines in line with people processes and be able to organise your time effectively.
• To be IT proficient.
• Builds relationships quickly and have the ability to apply policy to real life situations with your experience.
• To be inclusive and provide a psychologically safe environment for all.

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’re 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