Food Team Leader

About the role:

Our food stores and their teams are at the heart of many local communities, and every great team needs dependable leadership.

From motivating the team and delegating tasks, to rolling up your sleeves and getting stuck in, our Team Leaders help our stores to deliver great results and maintain high standards every day.

Wide-ranging and varied, you will carry out tasks such as:

• Keeping on top of produce freshness, inventory, and stock management, as well as cash processes
• Date monitoring and price checking activities, keeping stock loss at a minimum and making sure all reductions are visible
• Maintaining consistent stock control by performing stock takes and gap checks
• Supporting your colleagues through people management activities (such as managing holiday requests and colleague scheduling), alongside the Store Manager.

As a keyholder, you’ll be responsible for opening and closing the store and we’ll look to you to ensure it is always safe and secure. Therefore, flexibility is key as there will be a requirement to work evenings and weekends.

• Previous experience of leading and inspiring a sizable team, although this isn’t essential as full training will be provided.
• An ability to build relationships with colleagues to create the foundation for getting jobs done by celebrating success.
• A genuine passion and care for customers and their experience in store, demonstrating excellent customer service in any situation.
• A reliable and dependable manner alongside being an engaged brand ambassador.
• That you can help us achieve our purpose by being inspiring, helpful, and trustworthy!

be over 18 years old to be a Team Leader, as you’ll need to authorise age-related sales.

• 30 days annual leave (including bank holidays) (pro-rata)
• Pension scheme (with up to 12% employer contributions)
• Generous colleague discount rates across our family of businesses
• Annual discretionary colleague bonuses to reward you for your hard work
• Working schedules that are available four weeks in advance, giving you time to plan around your shifts
• Free tea and coffee provisions for all colleagues during rest breaks at work>

From a single store in 1861 we have grown to be one of the most successful co-operatives in the UK. We’re proud to be able to offer a wide range of services from across our family of businesses. From Food Stores and Pharmacies to Post Offices and Support Services, we’re a growing society made up of over 220 outlets and nearly 3,000 colleagues.

We're owned by our members, the people of Lincolnshire and surrounding counties, and have been for more than 160 years! Communities are at the heart of everything we do and motivates us to deliver more than great customer service. We support them by sharing dividend with our members, investing in new and improved services, raising money for charity through our Community Champion scheme, supporting local schools and so much more!

Find out more about us, our purpose and wonderful colleagues here.

We work together as a Society and are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is barrier free and as inclusive as possible for everyone. If you need any adjustments, would like us to do anything differently during the interview or would like to get in touch with us about anything else, please contact our Recruitment team on (01522) 533316, or alternatively you can email careersp.

We may choose to close our vacancies in the event that we receive a high volume of suitable applications, so we encourage all candidates to apply as soon as possible.