Chilled Supervisor - Food Retail, Wigton

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Working Hours: Permanent
Location: Wigton
Salary: £6.35 - £6.75/hour £6.35 - £6.75 per hour
The Company
Somerfield are really going places. We are well on the way to achieving our mission of becoming Britain's favourite local grocery shop by providing convenience whilst maintaining quality, freshness & outstanding service.

The Role
There has never been a better time to become a Supervisor with Somerfield. We offer a competitive salary (with increased pay for overtime), award winning training, 10% staff discount, 30 days holiday per year (increasing with service) and, most importantly to us, unparalleled opportunities to progress your career.

Now as part of The Co-operative Group, we are the UK’s leading community food retailer. We have doubled our share within the food retail market and have grown from under 1000 stores to over 3000 in the UK. We believe this will propel us to become part of the 'big 5’, able to offer more to both our staff and our customers.

The Supervisor role

The Supervisor plays an absolutely pivotal role in each and every one of our stores and is the first level of management within the store structure. Key responsibilities include managing a team of CSAs, training colleagues, coordinating holiday and rotas, stock replenishment, ensuring the store is operating legally and safely and, of course, delivering exceptional customer service to our customers.

Are you a Somerfield Supervisor?

Our Supervisors come from many backgrounds, but all share the key attributes that we look for in our future employees. These include excellent influencing and interpersonal skills, the ability to prioritise and organise effectively, a good commercial awareness combined with an aptitude for driving sales and availability, a commitment to providing exceptional customer service and a good degree of PC literacy.

Food retail is a fast moving industry that requires individuals to be open-minded, flexible and adaptable. We expect everyone who joins us to have a positive ‘can-do’ attitude and a real passion for retail.



After your initial company induction, which will give you all the information you need on your first day in store, you will begin our Reach programme – a self-driven scheme which will provide a structure for your training over the next few weeks.

The Benefits

Standard working hours for this role are 38 per week, 5 days in 7, and you will need to be completely flexible to work anytime between 6am and 10pm. The basic pay rate is £6.35 per hour, rising to £6.75 once you are signed off as a Duty Manager and multi-skilled throughout the store.



Pension scheme after 12 weeks probation, life assurance, childcare vouchers and flexible benefits booklet. Overtime (over 38 hours) will be paid at 1.5x usual pay, night work (between 22:00 and 06:00) at 1.33x, Christmas Day at 3x and New Years Day at 2x.