Tesco Store Manager

Tesco Plc; Horsham; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retailer in Horsham is seeking an experienced Store Manager to lead a high-performing team. This role involves training, coaching staff, driving sales growth, and ensuring customer satisfaction. The ideal candidate excels in communication and is committed to fostering a customer-first environment. The position offers a range of benefits including holidays, flexible working options, and a supportive workplace culture.

Benefits

Holiday starting at 20 days plus personal day

Flexible working from day one

10% off and 15% at payday weekends

Free wellbeing services

Life cover of five times your pay

Benefits tailor-made – choose what you use

Uniform provided

Access to colleague networks

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills and collaborative approach to deliver results.
• Customer-first attitude, building strong relationships with colleagues and customers.
• Resilience and energy to maintain momentum in challenging environments.
• Drive to exceed expectations, consistently performing at a high level.
• Awareness of competitor activity and continual pursuit of initiatives to improve the store.

Responsibilities

• Recruit and train a high-performance team, developing operational and leadership skills.
• Co‑coach the team to be passionate and knowledgeable about the store’s products.
• Lead trade activity, using expertise to grow sales and maximise profit.
• Build and support managers to deliver and sustain the Store Change Plan.
• Prioritise colleague safety, ensuring the store trades legally.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Customer-first attitude

Resilience

Drive to exceed expectations

Awareness of competitor activity

Job description

Tesco Store Manager – Tesco

Welcome to the Tesco Store Manager role. For this position, the shift pattern varies from day to day but is planned in advance.

Should you be successful, the offer will be conditional upon providing your bank account details before the agreed start date.

Responsibilities

• Recruit and train a high-performance team, developing operational and leadership skills.
• Co‑coach the team to be passionate and knowledgeable about the store’s products, building the brand and ensuring customers receive the right range, quality and service.
• Lead trade activity, using expertise to grow sales and maximise profit.
• Build and support managers to deliver and sustain the Store Change Plan, ensuring efficient staffing and continuous review of solutions.
• Prioritise colleague safety, ensuring the store trades legally and coaching the team to use all security tools for a safer workplace.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills and collaborative approach to deliver results.
• Customer‑first attitude, building strong relationships with colleagues and customers.
• Resilience and energy to maintain momentum in challenging environments, capable of making decisions that benefit customers and staff.
• Drive to exceed expectations, consistently performing at a high level and inspiring confidence.
• Awareness of competitor activity and a continual pursuit of initiatives to improve the store for customers.

Benefits

• 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
• 10% off and 15% at payday weekends – up to £2,000 a year with Colleague Clubcard (additional card for family)
• Free wellbeing services and a range of resources to support mind, body and life
• Life cover of five times your pay and an award‑winning pension with matching contributions up to 7.5%
• Benefits tailor‑made – choose what you use (discounts, shares, cycle‑to‑work schemes)
• Uniform provided, policies to support all life moments
• Access to colleague networks – a space for colleagues from a range of backgrounds
• Read more about the available benefits

About Us

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether at home or on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. We are a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we serve, and for the planet.

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) means we want everyone to feel represented and can be themselves at work. We are a place where Everyone’s Welcome.

We support flexible working for all career stages, from early career to retirement, parenthood and other life moments. Talk to us about support throughout your application.

We are proud to be an accredited Disability Confident Leader and committed to an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For more information on accessibility support please click here.

Legal & EEO Statements

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 and spirits, counters, bakery and driving roles.

In the event of high volumes, some roles may close earlier than advertised to manage applicants. We will provide individual feedback to those who attend an interview.

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