Sainsbury's
Lead Customer Experience Manager

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Lead Customer Experience Manager
Lead Customer Experience Manager
What You’ll Be Responsible For
- Lead a team of managers to ensure every single one of our customers has a great experience in-store, from the checkout areas to the petrol station
- Partner with the store leadership team to plan for upcoming key trading activity and events
- Take full accountability for the store in the absence of a store manager, while role modelling and coaching high standards and efficiency
- Oversee operations at:
- Checkout areas (manned and self-scan)
- Petrol stations (where applicable)
- Back-of-house services
- Play a significant role in people management, including:
- Managing performance and capability
- Conducting disciplinaries
- Ensuring accurate scheduling and payroll
What Makes a Great Lead Customer Experience Manager
- A passionate leader who is consistently ambitious for both customers and colleagues
- Dedicated to growing their team into equally driven performers
- Experience in managing managers within a fast-paced, customer-facing environment
- Ability to operate independently when senior leadership is unavailable
- Commitment to delivering high performance with a focus on efficiency and engagement
- Strong confidence in data interpretation, particularly:
- Understanding and improving KPIs or performance indicators
- Experience in making data-driven improvements
- Places inclusivity at the heart of their work
- Builds inclusive teams and fosters a supportive working environment
- Handles disciplinaries, performance issues, or employee relations matters (up to dismissal)
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Essential Criteria
- Leadership in fast-paced, customer-focused environments:
- Developed strong team leaders and built high-performing, accountable teams
- Customer experience delivery:
- Track record of exceptional customer experience across complex operations
- Demonstrates results through team-driven improvements
- KPI and performance expertise:
- Proven success in delivering and improving KPIs, including:
- Sales performance
- Stock availability
- Customer satisfaction
- Colleague engagement
- Proven success in delivering and improving KPIs, including:
- People management in sensitive situations:
- Experience handling formal employee relations cases, including:
- Performance management
- Absence investigations
- Requires confidence, fairness, and sound judgement
- Experience handling formal employee relations cases, including:
- Operational leadership experience:
- Background in retail, hospitality, or food service
- Owned departmental performance and led stores in senior absence
- Change management ability:
- Successfully led transformation projects, such as:
- Introducing new working methods
- Embedding operational systems
- Aligning team mindsets to change
- Successfully led transformation projects, such as:
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