Customer and Trading Manager – Nightshift

Company: Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd
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Location: City of Edinburgh
Job Description:

Customer and Trading Manager – Nightshift

Salary: From £31,700 + £4,500 premiumLocation: Blackhall Store, Edinburgh, EH4 2EBContract type: PermanentBusiness area: RetailClosing date: 26 May 2026Requisition ID: 400060925

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 run a full store operation on your own overnight, being responsible for the full shift and the safety and wellbeing of colleagues in store.
  • Ensuring standards are brilliant by morning so we’re ready to serve customers.
  • Managing people, performance, capability, conducting disciplinaries and ensuring scheduling and pay are accurate.

Nightshift managers work full‑time hours over 4 nights, receiving a £4,500 premium on top of base salary. Nightshifts typically run from 22:00 until 08:00.

What makes a great nightshift manager:

  • Comfortable with nightshift work and adaptable to the physical and mental impact of these shift patterns.
  • Previous line management responsibilities in a fast‑paced, operational environment.
  • Resilience to deal with mental and physical demands of working nights.
  • Provides brilliant customer service and coaches a team to do the same.
  • Experience delivering and monitoring KPI’s or other performance indicators.
  • Can manage disciplinaries, performance issues, or other employee relations issues.
  • Leads operations and is comfortable managing alone in absence of senior management.
  • Prioritises inclusivity.
  • Track record of delivering excellent customer service and coaching colleagues.
  • Successful meeting/exceeding KPIs (sales, availability, satisfaction, engagement).
  • Managed employee relations, performance, and absence management.
  • Desirable: night‑shift experience in high‑volume environment with safe supportive atmosphere.

Working for us has great rewards:

  • Salary dependent on experience, store size, complexity, and location.
  • Benefits include discount card, annual bonus scheme, free food and hot drinks, generous holiday, maternity/paternity leave, pension match, share scheme, wellbeing support, colleague networks, cycle-to-work scheme, and special offers.

Should you require any reasonable adjustments during the application or interview stages, please let us know, and we will endeavour to support you.

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Posted: June 20th, 2026