Customer and Trading Manager - Nightshift

What you’ll be doing: * Leading a team overnight to deliver all replenishment activities across the store whilst getting stuck in yourself to prioritise deliveries, organise the warehouse and replenish shelves. * Often, you get to run a full store operation on your own overnight being responsible for the full shift and the safety and wellbeing of colleagues in store * Making sure that standards are brilliant come morning so we’re ready to serve our customers * People management is a big part of the role, managing performance and capability, conducting disciplinaries and ensuring scheduling and pay are accurate. Our nightshift managers work full-time hours over 4 nights, as well as receiving a £4,500 premium on top of your base salary (Our nightshifts typically run from 22:00 until 08:00).  What makes a great nightshift manager: * Someone who is comfortable with nightshift working and is adaptable to the physical and mental impact of these shift patterns and understands the importance of providing a safe and healthy environment for their team. * Previous line management responsibilities in a fast-paced, operational environment. * Resilience to deal with both the mental and physical demands of working nights. * Provides brilliant customer service and coaches a team to do the same. * Has previous experience delivering and monitoring KPI's or other performance indicators. * Can manage disciplinaries, performance issues or other similar employee relations issues. * Leads operations and is comfortable doing this alone in the absence of more senior management. * Puts inclusivity at the heart of everything they do. Essential Criteria: * A track record of delivering brilliant customer service and coaching colleagues to do the same. * Experience of leading a team in a fast-paced, customer-facing environment — you’ve motivated others, driven performance, and kept operations running smoothly. * Operational leadership skills  — you’ve taken responsibility for store operations in the absence of more senior managers. * Demonstrated success in meeting or exceeding KPIs — whether it’s sales, availability, customer satisfaction or colleague engagement, you’ve made a measurable impact. * Has managed employee relations issues, including performance and absence management.  * Desirable - Has worked night shifts in a high-volume, operational environment — you’ve adapted to the physical and mental demands of overnight working and created a safe, supportive atmosphere for your team during out-of-hours trading. Sainsbury’s company vision Our vision is to be the most trusted retailer, where people love to work and shop. That means harnessing the talent, creativity and diversity of our colleagues to ensure that customers receive great service every time they shop with us. If you would like to hear more about our vision and values, be sure to visit our corporate page. We invest in training, development and multiple initiatives to ensure our teams feel enabled to offer the best shopping experience to our customers and that Sainsbury’s is truly a ‘Great Place to Work’. We’re in the business of looking after our biggest asset. Our people. That means making it our business to properly take care of the potential and wellbeing of our truly outstanding teams. Join us in HR, and we’ll make it yours too. They bring the spark, the funny, the graft, the grit. And they’re literally the most important asset we have. So it’s in our interests to give the people at Sainsbury’s everything they need to feel valued, engaged and motivated, and truly able to shine. That’s where our HR colleagues have a pivotal role to play. From our ‘centre of excellence’ teams in Reward and Recruitment, through to our core teams in Change and Talent, they’re creating environments that allow our colleagues to thrive and we’re proud of their incredible ability to understand Sainsbury’s inside out.