Southern Co-op, 1000 Lakeside Western Road Portsmouth , PO6 3FE

Working at Southern Co-op

We’re an independent Co-op, operating across the south of England running convenience food stores, funeral homes, crematoria, natural/woodland burial grounds and a Starbucks coffee franchise.

We’re owned by our members, have over 4,500 colleagues and a purpose of working together for the benefit of our communities.

We were founded in Portsmouth, Hampshire in 1873 as a response to the societal challenges of that time – exploitation, inequality and life-threatening poverty – with a vision of creating a business that would help people to help themselves and meet the needs of all, rather than a few rich shareholders.

While some of these societal challenges unfortunately still exist today in one form or other, alongside environmental challenges like climate change, our response remains the same.

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You'll be at the heart of local life and the person that our customers recognise and remember. You'll be serving customers, re-stocking products and keeping the store looking great. With a wide range of work patterns available, you'll hopefully find the hours that suit.

Customer Service Assistant

You'll be at the heart of local life and the person that our customers recognise and remember. You'll be serving customers, re-stocking products and keeping the store looking great. With a wide range of work patterns available, you'll hopefully find the hours that suit.

Supporting the store manager, you’ll spend most of the time on the shop floor identifying opportunities to improve the store experience for our customers. You'll help build key community relationships through our Love Your Neighbourhood scheme and be able to run all aspects of the store operation in the absence of the store manager.

Team Leader

Supporting the store manager, you’ll spend most of the time on the shop floor identifying opportunities to improve the store experience for our customers. You'll help build key community relationships through our Love Your Neighbourhood scheme and be able to run all aspects of the store operation in the absence of the store manager.

You'll inspire and develop your team and work to make sure that every one of our customers feels valued as soon as they walk through the door. You need to be flexible and commercially aware ensuring that your store is always performing at its best for our customers.

Store Manager

You'll inspire and develop your team and work to make sure that every one of our customers feels valued as soon as they walk through the door. You need to be flexible and commercially aware ensuring that your store is always performing at its best for our customers.