Customer Team Leader
Location: 1-3 Albert Parade, Eastbourne, BN21 1SD
Pay: £13.32 per hour
Contract: 16 hours per week + regular overtime, 18 month temporary contract, part time
Working pattern: varied shifts including early mornings (store opening), afternoons, late evenings (store closing) and weekends, to be discussed at interview
Full, paid training provided
You must be aged 18 or over to be a customer team leader at Co-op, as you’ll need to authorise age-related sales.
We’re looking for Customer Team Leaders to join our team at Co-op. When you join Co-op, you’ll get dedicated support to help you grow your career, as well as amazing benefits including 36 days holiday, a pension with up to 10% Co-op contribution, access to virtual healthcare services for you and your family, and a 30% discount on all Co-op products in our stores.
As a Customer Team Leader, you’ll be part of a friendly team that’s dedicated to helping our customers. We’ll look to you to help lead the store team – coaching and supervising our Customer Team Members and deputising for the Store Manager, while also delivering great customer service and performing a wide range of other tasks around the store like re-stocking shelves and cleaning up spillages.
At Co-op, we do things a different way. For over 175 years we’ve been focused on making things fairer for our members and their communities, and as a colleague we promise to take care of you. You’ll get support for your physical, mental, and financial wellbeing, as well as market leading policies to help you through life events from bereavement and pregnancy loss to fertility treatment and menopause.
What you’ll do
* Provide friendly and thoughtful service – managing the store and handling challenging situations
* Develop your team's capabilities through coaching and training, fostering an inclusive culture
* Ensure that the store remains safe, legal, and fully operational
* Manage diligence checks and stock accuracy to enhance customer experience
* Support your store manager by deputising when they’re not working
* Lead the introduction of new products and services in your store
* Build relationships and support your Store Manager with the local Co-op community plan
This job would suit people who have
* A genuine care for the needs of customers and members
* The ability to balance leading and supporting your team
* Great people skills, with the ability to build positive relationships
* Strong organisational and problem-solving skills
* A desire to learn, grow and develop your leadership skills
* The flexibility to work a range of different shifts
Why Co-op?
* Full, paid training and dedicated support for your personal development
* 30% discount on all Co-op products in-store plus 10% discounts on other brands
* A pension scheme with up to 10% employer contributions
* Wagestream– a money management app for early access to pay
* 36 days of holiday (including bank holidays, pro rata for part time colleagues)
* Virtual healthcare services for you and your family
* 24/7 employee assistance service
* Rotas shared three weeks in advance and accessible on your phone
* Cycle-to-work scheme
Building an inclusive workplace
We want to build diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. We want our stores to be inclusive environments, where our colleagues can reach their full potential. We celebrate our differences and recognise the importance of our teams reflecting the communities they serve.
If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.
If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.
You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process.
You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at jobs.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-wellbeing.
As part of the application process for this job, you’ll need to complete two online assessments. It will take around 20 minutes to complete these tests.
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