Sainsbury's
Lead Customer Experience Manager

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What you’ll be doing:
- Lead a team of managers to make sure every single one of our customers has a great experience in store everywhere from the checkouts to the petrol station.
- Planning for upcoming key trading activity and events by working closely with the rest of the store leadership team.
- Regularly taking full accountability for the store in the absence of a store manager, role modelling and coaching for high standards and efficiency across the store.
- Running operations at our checkout areas both manned and self-scan, petrol stations (If we have one) and back of house services.
- People management is also a big part of the role, managing performance and capability, conducting disciplinaries and ensuring scheduling and pay are accurate.
What makes a great Lead Customer Experience manager:
- A passionate leader who is consistently ambitious for their customers and colleagues, every day, growing their team to do the same.
- Experience of managing managers, in a fast-paced, customer-facing environment.
- An operator who is comfortable managing alone in the absence of more senior management.
- Driven to deliver high performance with a focus on efficiency and engagement.
- Confident in the use of data, and understanding/interpreting KPIs or other performance indicators, and has experience of improving these.
- Puts inclusivity at the heart of what they do and uses this to build an inclusive team and working environment.
- Can manage disciplinaries, performance issues or other similar employee relations issues (Up to dismissal).
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- Experience leading large teams in a fast-paced, customer-focused environment—you’ve developed leaders, built high-performing teams, and created a culture of ownership and accountability.
- A track record of delivering exceptional customer experiences across complex operations, with evidence of delivering these through your team.
- Proven success in delivering and improving KPIs—from sales and stock availability to customer satisfaction and colleague engagement, you’ve driven results that matter.
- Experience managing sensitive and complex people matters, including performance, absence, and formal employee relations cases, with confidence, fairness, and sound judgement.
- Leadership experience in an operational environment—whether in retail, hospitality, or food service—where you’ve owned departmental performance and confidently led the store in the absence of senior leadership.
- Can evidence leading change—whether rolling out new ways of working, embedding new systems, or shifting team mindsets, you’ve brought people with you and made change stick.
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