CTM at Sainsbury's

Bit late to the convo here, but a sainsburys CTM in local stores, here. Let me know if you still want to know anything.

I started as a colleague, and was multi skilled pretty quickly by my managers. I did a lot of overtime, and the main reason I was considered for promotion was that I took control of a situation when the cover manager running the store was struggling to deal with it. I was promoted two months into working for sainsburys. I did my interview with another store manager in the area cluster, which was pretty straightforward and (without giving too much away) focusses on attitude towards people and the base management behaviours and initiative. I stepped up to full time when I was promoted, as I had the time to do so, on the understanding I'd he transferring stores upon my return to uni. I was lucky that my manager was completely fine with this. I completed 4 weeks of pre appointment training, where you should cover: cash office and handling, scheduling and pay management, running a store, safe and legal processes, housekeeping, and a few other bits. Let me know if you have any other questions.

Training is pretty straightforward. You cover some additional incident processes like fire procedures, you do employee relations, disciplinary process training, attendance management, different stock tracking processes, and various reports that you act on during a shift.

Thank you. I presume it’s something you complete online, similar to the training style that band 2 colleagues get? In addition to this, do other managers coach you along the way or is it more of an independent thing?

When you get promoted to CTM, you get assigned about 50 courses. Some take minutes, some take 2+ hours. Your store manager should be with you basically the whole time, as pre appointment is free labour for the store, anyway. My process was pretty involved, and I covered most of the topics in person before I got around to the online course.

When you get promoted to CTM, you get assigned about 50 courses. Some take minutes, some take 2+ hours. Your store manager should be with you basically the whole time, as pre appointment is free labour for the store, anyway. My process was pretty involved, and I covered most of the topics in person before I got around to the online course.