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Customer Delivery Driver - Solihull Extra

Tesco·Solihull, West Midlands·Posted 3 days ago
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About the role

Availability Window

Days From time To time Sun 10:00:00 17:00:00 Fri 09:00:00 22:00:00 Sat 09:00:00 22:00:00

Our Customer Delivery Driver rate of pay starts from £14.18 an hour; this increases to £15.45 for stores inside the M25. Additional payments may also apply depending on location.

It’s our policy to offer new colleagues joining us a minimum of 16 guaranteed hours each week, but if you’d like to work fewer hours (to a minimum of 12) we have opportunities for this too and would still love to hear from you.

The table shows the periods of time in the week we’d like you to be available to work – the availability windows. We will schedule your contracted hours within these times, and you’ll have 3 weeks’ notice of exactly when your shifts will be. We are happy to support flexibility for our colleagues, therefore if the times you’re available to work match closely but not exactly to the times we are advertising, we’d still love to hear from you. Click here to read more.

Customers are at the heart of everything we do.

As the face of Tesco out on the road, we deliver all the way from Lands’ End to John O’Groats. Our Customer Delivery Drivers get the opportunity to meet and talk to different customers in their homes every day. That’s why this role is about much more than just driving: it's about helping others and delivering great service, with a smile.

Its hands on, physical and full of variety. No two shifts are ever the same and our customer’s look for help in all kinds of different ways. For most of the day you’ll feel like your own boss, delivering to your customers but there is always a team of Managers and colleagues back at base ready to support you when you need them.

So whether you are looking for flexibility to suit your current lifestyle, job stability or an opportunity to change career direction everyone is welcome at Tesco.

What is in it for you

We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work.  These include but aren’t limited to:

  • Holiday starting at 20 days plus a personal day rising to 22 days after 12 months (plus Bank holidays)
  • Request flexible working from day one
  • Get 10% off and 15% at pay day weekends - save up to £2,000 a year with your Colleague Clubcard with an additional card to share with family outside your home
  • Access to free wellbeing services with a range of resources to support your mind, body, and life
  • Life cover of five times your pay and an award-winning pension with matching contributions up to 7.5%
  • Benefits to suit you, choose what you use - from discounts and shares to cycle to work schemes
  • Uniform provided and policies to support you for all of life’s moments, big and small
  • Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here. 
  • Click here to read more about the benefits we have available for our colleagues


You will be responsible for

Delivering your part of our customer shopping trip by:

  • Ensuring the van and trays I use are clean and kept tidy/organised.
  • Leaving the back yard clean, tidy and clear of rubbish, and picking up litter as I see it.
  • Ensuring trays are washed as part of the tray wash process. I can get what I want:
  • Loading the van as required, checking the van for roadworthiness.
  • Talking to the customer about any changes to their order, including short code item and substitutions, offering a refund for anything they are unhappy with.
  • Taking care of products/deliveries as if they were my own.
  • Explaining to the customer that they will not be charged any more for their substitutions.
  • Delivering during the customers time slot.
  • Calling the customer before arriving at their property if early.
  • Calling the store/centre if running 30 or more minutes late.

You will need

  • Build relationships with colleagues to create team spirit, working together to make sure our store is the best it can be for customers.
  • Warm and welcoming in interactions with customers and colleagues, taking time to understand the customer and say ‘Thank you’.
  • Acting quickly to respond to the changing needs of our customers and embracing change within my store.
  • Energetic and driven to deliver beyond expectations, integrating home and work to achieve a balance that is right for me.
  • Sharing ideas with my Manager and other colleagues on how we can improve our store for customers.
  • A UK/EU/EEA Driving licence (Full or Automatic only) for at least 12 months with no more than 3 penalty points.
  • Able to adhere to the GB Domestic Driving Rules

About us

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet. 

 Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we’re a place where Everyone’s Welcome.

 We know life looks a little different for each of us. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome chats about flexible working. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we are committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

Please note

Tesco will only recruit individuals who have passed the school leaver’s age. To find out the school leavers age for your country please click here 

We can only accept candidates over the age of 18 if the role requires working before 6:15 am or after 9:45 pm or involves working in areas such as the warehouse, beers, wines & spirits, counters, bake
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Key skills

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Must-have skills
Valid UK driving licenceHome delivery drivingManual handlingCustomer-facing delivery service
Nice-to-have
Route navigation using sat-navFlexible/split-shift availabilityPrevious grocery or retail delivery experience
Soft skills
CommunicationReliabilityAutonomyFriendlinessAdaptability
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Application advice

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⭐ Highlight your valid UK driving licence prominently at the top of your CV — the advert's core requirement is being the face of Tesco on the road, so this must be immediately visible.

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📊 Quantify your delivery experience: e.g. 'Completed 25+ customer home deliveries per shift with a 98% on-time rate across a 40-mile radius.'

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🌐 Mention any experience working flexible or split-shift patterns (e.g. weekends, evenings) to match the advertised Sunday, Friday and Saturday availability windows.

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🎯 Include a brief Personal Statement referencing customer interaction — the advert stresses 'delivering great service, with a smile' and meeting customers in their homes daily.

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🤝 Reference any experience working independently on the road while remaining accountable to a base team, mirroring the advert's 'feel like your own boss' but supported by managers framing.

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  • Completed an average of 22 home delivery drops per shift across a 35-mile radius, maintaining a 97% on-time delivery rate over a 6-month contract.
  • Conducted pre- and post-shift vehicle safety checks on a 3.5-tonne Luton van daily, resulting in zero reportable defects across 120 working days.
  • Resolved 15+ customer queries and failed-delivery situations per month by liaising with base team in real time, achieving a 4.8/5 customer satisfaction score.

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Tesco's Customer Delivery Driver role at Solihull Extra stands out to me because it combines reliable, road-based work with genuine daily customer interaction — two aspects I find most rewarding. I hold a full, clean UK driving licence and have built solid experience in home delivery and customer-facing service, both of which your advert places at the centre of this position.

My background in delivery driving includes completing 20+ drops per shift across residential routes, managing time-sensitive schedules independently while keeping customers informed and satisfied at the door. I am comfortable with the physical demands of loading and unloading, and I am available across the Friday, Saturday and Sunday windows you have advertised.

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Interview questions

10 questions generated from this advert.

Technical

  • How do you plan and prioritise a delivery route to ensure all customers receive their orders within the scheduled time window?
  • What steps do you take to safely load and secure grocery items in a delivery van to prevent damage in transit?
  • How do you handle a situation where your van's sat-nav fails and you are unfamiliar with the delivery area?
  • Describe how you would manage a failed delivery — for example, a customer is not home — following Tesco's procedure.
  • What checks do you carry out on a delivery vehicle at the start and end of a shift to ensure roadworthiness?

Behavioural

  • Tell me about a time you delivered excellent customer service in a face-to-face situation under time pressure.
  • Describe a situation where you had to adapt quickly to an unexpected change during your working day.
  • Give an example of when you worked independently for most of a shift but needed to escalate an issue to a manager.
  • Tell me about a time you handled a complaint or difficult interaction with a member of the public calmly and professionally.
  • Describe how you have managed a physically demanding workload over a full shift while maintaining accuracy and care.
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STAR answer examples

Model answers using the Situation-Task-Action-Result framework. Adapt to your own experience.

1Question

Tell me about a time you delivered excellent customer service in a face-to-face situation under time pressure.

Situation: During a busy Saturday shift delivering groceries for a regional retailer, I arrived at a customer's address to find she was elderly and struggling to carry her bags inside. Task: I had 18 more drops to complete within a 2-hour window, so I needed to help without falling behind schedule. Action: I quickly carried all six bags to her kitchen, checked the order was correct, and radioed my base to flag a 4-minute delay on my ETA. I also noted her address for a welfare flag. Result: I completed my remaining drops on time, received a 5-star customer feedback rating for that shift, and the store used my welfare flag process as a best-practice example for the wider team.
2Question

Describe a situation where you had to adapt quickly to an unexpected change during your working day.

Situation: Midway through a 25-drop delivery round, my sat-nav lost signal in a rural area and I had 11 deliveries remaining in an unfamiliar postcode. Task: I needed to complete the route without missing customer time slots. Action: I pulled over safely, used the printed manifest to cross-reference road names, and called base to request a verbal route guide for the next 3 stops while I re-established signal. I reorganised the remaining drops by proximity rather than the original sequence. Result: I delivered all 11 orders within their allotted windows, finishing only 7 minutes behind my original schedule, with no customer complaints logged.

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