Tesco announces cuts to 1,700 deputy manager roles in Express store chain

Tesco is set to replace 1,700 deputy managers in its Express convenience stores across the UK.

The supermarket chain announced that 3300 lower paid “shift leader” roles will be created at the 1,800-strong store network instead.

Tesco confirmed that the 1,700 deputy managers will begin consultation and be offered new shift leader positions, redundancy payments or alternative roles in other Tesco stores.

As a result of this employment restructure programme, a net increase of around 1,500 new roles is expected to be created.

This announcement comes just one month Tesco unveiled its plans to merge with the food wholesaler, Booker Group plc, which operates the Makro, Londis and Budgens brands, in a £3.7bn deal.

Tracey Clements, Managing Director of Convenience at Tesco said: “To help improve our service to customers in our Express stores we are aiming to have more of our colleagues on the shop floor, more often.

“To help achieve this we are creating more than 3,300 Shift Leader roles which, in turn, means we will no longer have Deputy Managers.

“We appreciate that these changes will impact our Deputy Manager colleagues, and will do everything we can to support them throughout this period.”

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