Express Store Manager - Garswood Express

About the Role

As an Express Store Manager, you will play a vital role in delivering exceptional experiences to customers who shop with us. You will lead a dynamic, fast-paced store environment where every day brings new challenges and opportunities. The role involves inspiring and guiding your team, collaborating with internal departments, and fostering an inclusive culture that encourages success for every employee. This position allows you to enhance your leadership skills, develop your team members, and significantly improve store performance. Whether you value steady work, flexible options, or career advancement, becoming a Store Manager here offers a chance to thrive. Our package includes a competitive salary and outstanding benefits. Shift patterns are planned ahead to maintain a good work-life balance.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and motivate a high-performing team, building strong operational skills and confident leadership within the team.
• Coach colleagues to develop passion, product knowledge, and a customer-focused approach to deliver excellent range, quality, and service.
• Drive trading performance by increasing sales and profit through strong commercial insight and effective decision-making.
• Build leadership capabilities across management to successfully implement the Store Change Plan, allocating resources to maximize impact.
• Promote colleague safety and uphold legal compliance by ensuring all safety, security, and operational protocols are consistently followed.
• Exemplify leadership values to cultivate an environment of clear direction, resilience, and ongoing improvement within your team.

Candidate Requirements

• Demonstrated leadership experience managing teams in retail or customer-centric settings, with proven success in achieving targets through others.
• Strong collaborative skills with an understanding of your influential role to drive consistent team performance.
• A welcoming, customer-oriented disposition supported by prior experience building strong customer relationships.
• High energy, resilience, and decisiveness to thrive in a fast-moving environment, making timely decisions that benefit customers and staff.
• Exemplary professionalism and integrity, inspiring confidence, establishing expectations, and leading by example.
• Good knowledge of competitors' activities and solid retail operations experience, enabling you to spot opportunities and implement improvements to enhance customer satisfaction.

Employee Benefits

• Start with 20 days of paid holiday plus a personal day, increasing to 22 days after one year, alongside Bank Holidays.
• Availability of flexible working arrangements from the first day.
• Discounts through Colleague Clubcard: 10% off regularly and 15% on pay-day weekends, plus an additional card for family use.
• Access to free healthcare and wellbeing services supporting mental, physical, and personal life.
• Life insurance coverage equivalent to five times your salary and an award-winning pension scheme including up to 7.5% employer contribution.
• A variety of additional benefits such as employee discounts, share schemes, green car salary sacrifice, and cycle-to-work programs.
• Provided uniform and comprehensive policies supporting employees through significant life events.

About Tesco

Our vision is to become every customer's preferred shopping destination. We are driven by a purpose to serve customers, communities, and the planet responsibly and sustainably. We embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion, encouraging everyone to be themselves and feel welcome. We recognize diverse life circumstances and offer open dialogues about flexible working options. Proudly accredited as a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to offering a recruitment process that is accessible and inclusive to all candidates.