Sainsbury's
Lead Nightshift Manager

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Lead Nightshift Manager
Lead Nightshift Manager – Full-Time Role
About the Role
Lead and manage a small team of managers overnight, delivering all replenishment activities to ensure our customers receive everything they need the following morning. Core responsibilities include:
- Planning for key trading activities and events in collaboration with store leadership.
- Managing pay, scheduling, training, and employee relations—including performance management, absence tracking, and completing disciplinaries.
- Taking full accountability for the store overnight, fostering high standards, role modelling, and efficiency across the team.
- Prioritising the health and safety of colleagues on every shift.
This role operates in 4-night shifts (typically 22:00–08:00), with a premium of £4,500 above base salary.
What Makes a Great Lead Nightshift Manager?
- Nightshift adaptability: Comfortable with working overnight, understands physical and mental demands, and creates a safe and supportive environment.
- Passionate leadership: Inspires ambition for customers and colleagues, fostering a high-performance culture.
- Fast-paced management experience: Hands-on experience in managing managers and leaders in a customer-facing environment.
- Independent leadership: Comfortable operating alone, confident in owning the store’s performance without senior oversight.
- Performance-focused: Driven by efficiency and engagement, with the ability to interpret and improve performance metrics.
- Data-driven: Uses data and KPIs to drive results, demonstrating a track record of improvement.
- Inclusivity champion: Builds an inclusive team culture and addresses sensitive situations with fairness and judgement (e.g., disciplinaries up to dismissal).
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Essential Criteria
- Team leadership experience: Successfully developed leaders, built high-achieving teams, and nurtured a culture of ownership.
- Exceptional customer experience: Delivered and scaled outstanding service across complex operations—evidence required.
- KPI improvement specialist: Driven tangible results in customer satisfaction, sales, stock, and colleague engagement.
- HR and employee relations expertise: Fucha experience managing performance/absence cases confidently, fairly, and apply sound judgement.
- Operational leadership: Experience taking full accountability for department/store performance in a leadership-absent role.
- Change management: Proven ability to lead transformational change, embedding new processes and team buy-in.


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Desirable:
- Nightshift experience: Comfortable adapting to high-pressure overnight operations, fostering team morale and a safe atmosphere.
Our Vision & Values
Working at Sainsbury’s is about trust, passion, and people. Our goal:
“To be the most trusted retailer, where colleagues love to work and customers love to shop.”
We invest in training, development, and initiatives to ensure our teams are enabled to excel, making Sainsbury’s a Great Place to Work.
Our people are our greatest asset, and our HR and operational teams collaborate to support their growth, wellbeing, and engagement. Join us to thrive together.
For more on our company vision, explore the [corporate page](insert link).
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