A number of high-profile national companies are currently looking for new staff to fill a wide variety of roles in branches across Greater Manchester and the UK.
Boots, McDonald’s, PwC, and Tesco are among the companies looking to welcome new recruits.
There are currently thousands of jobs on offer within these companies throughout the country, ranging from retail and communications, to roles in logistics and even senior management positions too.
If you’re looking for a change of career, keen on exploring a new direction, or just fancy lending a hand to your wider community at a time when it’s most needed, then there are plenty big-name businesses and retailers looking to expand their teams across the region and we’ve rounded up all the roles with applications that are open to the public.
These are the companies hiring right now, and some of the opportunities they are offering.
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Boots
Boots currently employs 56,000 people and is looking to hire around 700 new members of staff throughout the UK, with hundreds of roles available across the North West region and a number in Greater Manchester, including Pharmacists, Store Managers, and Pre-registration Trainee positions all up for grabs.
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Full-Time, Part-Time, Fixed Term and Permanent positions are all currently open.
You can browse the roles available, read job descriptions and submit your applications via the Boots Jobs website here.
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Fancy joining the over 43,970+ team members at Next?
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Given the time of year gearing up to the festive period, there’s plenty of temporary Christmas Support Team roles currently open for applications in the Arndale, Trafford Centre, The Lowry Centre, and more, as well in a number of retail parks across the boroughs.
There’s also vacancies for non-seasonal temporary Sales Consultant and Delivery Assistant roles.
You can browse the roles available, read job descriptions and submit your applications via the Next Careers website here.
Tesco
Tesco currently employs of 450,000 people throughout the UK.
There’s a number of Customer Assistant roles of all levels that are currently open for applications at Tesco branches across Greater Manchester.
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From Failsworth, Burnage, and Bolton, to Oldham, Walkden, Leigh and more, stores right across the region are recruiting new team members with roles in a wide range of areas including Customer Service Assistants, Personal Shoppers, Delivery Drivers, Night Shift Assistants, Maintenance Management, Kitchen / Cafe, and there’s also a few roles suited to more experienced applicants too that offer a competitive salary and great employee benefits.
Full time, part time, Flexi, Temp, Festive Temp, and night time roles are all available.
You can browse the roles available, read job descriptions and submit your applications via the Tesco Careers website here.
PwC
PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) employs over 21,362 people across the UK and calls the swanky No.1 Spinningfields building its home in Manchester city centre.
There are a number of roles for experienced applicants currently open to the public.
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Roles based in the Manchester city centre hub which are accepting applications at present include External Audit Managers, Senior Manager in Business Restructuring Services – Covenant Advisory, Senior Associate in Digital Audit Advanced Analytics, Senior Salesforce Delivery Manager, and many many more.
Hours can be flexible, and salary rates and employee benefits are competitive.
You can browse the roles available, read job descriptions and submit your applications via the PwC Experienced Careers website here.
Tesco Careers PLCDeliveroo / Stefan Haehnel
Co-op
If you’re looking for more specialised roles as well as in-store roles, then Co-op is a retailer with its headquarters based right here in Manchester city centre.
Well over 70,000 employees make up Co-op’s team nationwide.
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There are currently a wide range of roles available across Greater Manchester, with vaccines open for several Undergraduate roles including Junior Buyer, Product Developer, Labelling Assistant, Food Policy Coordinator and more, as well as more senior roles such as Head of Design and Business Intelligence Analyst.
Customer Team Member, and Sales and Services Team Manager roles are also currently open for applications across the region too.
You can browse the roles available, read job descriptions and submit your applications via the Co-op Jobs website here.
McDonald’s
McDonald’s are well-known to be an excellent employer to work for here in the UK.
With plenty branches of the fast food chain spread across the Greater Manchester region, there are vacancies currently available in Hyde, Stretford, Urmston, Wythenshawe, Oldham, Bolton, Walkden, Radcliffe and more, with roles including Crew Members and Stockroom Staff up for grabs.
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Full-Time, Part-Time, temporary and night shift workers are required.
You can browse the roles available, read job descriptions and submit your applications via the McDonald’s Careers UK website here.
Domino’s
Popular pizza delivery chain Domino’s currently employs over 35,000 people in the UK and Ireland, and announced last month that it’s looking to expand its teams nationwide by creating 5,000 new jobs.
There are a number of vacancies currently open at branches across Greater Manchester.
Roles range from Store Operations, who’s responsibility it is to make, bake and take food to the doors of customers, and of course Delivery Drivers, who are “the face of Domino’s”, so if idea of being out on the road delivering hot, fresh and tasty pizza to hungry customers “gets your wheels spinning”, then this could be a great opportunity for you.
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You can browse the roles available, read job descriptions and submit your applications via the Domino’s UK & Ireland Recruitment website here.
Deliveroo
Deliveroo is looking to hire 15,000 new riders nationwide by the end of the year.
Riders for the leading food delivery service are self-employed and free to work to their own availability, can make as much as £120 a day, keep 100% of all their tips, get up to £250 for each person they refer, and get to benefit from the Deliveroo rider app whilst on shift, which makes it easy to plan ahead days ahead.
There’s a bunch of added employee perks too, including discounts at Apple, Vue Cinemas, and great restaurants.
To apply to be a Deliveroo rider, you must have:
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A scooter, motorbike or bicycle with the necessary safety equipment.
A smartphone – iPhone (iOS 11 and above) or Android (6.0 and above).
Proof of your right to work in the UK.
It only takes five minutes to register your interest.
You can browse the roles available, read job descriptions and submit your applications via the Deliveroo website here.
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Flashbacks: The timelapse of the Trafford Centre construction that’s gone viral
Danny Jones
The Trafford Centre might look like some decadent Roman emperor’s palace or as if it was plucked from the heart of Ancient Grecian city, but as anyone old enough to remember it’s opening and/or construction will tell you, it seems strange to think its not even been around for three decades yet.
As Greater Manchester’s and one of the North West’s most famous shopping centres full stop, the iconic attraction first began being built back in 1996, when John Major was Prime Minister, Manchester United were still Premier League champions, Britpop was at its peak and George Michael was number one.
It’s fair to say that a lot has changed since then and although Oasis might be back come 2025, The Trafford Centre and surrounding area are pretty unrecgonisable compared to nearly 30 years ago.
All told, it took approximately 27 months to erect the neo-classical epicentre of all things shopping, leisure, food and fanciness – and here’s what the process looked like:
With the initial 14 million sq ft shopping centre being completed in September 1998 following approximately 810 days of work, The Trafford Centre debuted to the Manc public and beyond.
It took more than 3,000 builders to bring the 60 hectare site to life at the peak of construction and since then the plot has only grown bigger, bolder and more ambitious over time.
Present day, it has everything from cinema screens and a mini Legoland to a Sea Life location, multiple bowling alleys and countless other forms of entertainment beyond just rows of shops and restaurants – hence why it remains busy pretty much year-round.
Back then, British celebrities, popular local names of note, politicians, dignitaries and prominent figures from the retail industry got to visit as part of exclusive preview events in the days before its launch date.
You can see the spectacle and fascination surrounding the official opening event here:
Seems surreal watching this today but the construction of the Trafford Centre was a huge moment not just for 0161 but all of the North.
But of course, the entire complex itself has seen multiple extensions over the years, including massive developments such as Barton Square and The Great Hall.
At the outset, it cost more than £600 million to build The Trafford Centre; the major renovations mentioned above which took place in 2008 cost another £100m and the Trafford Palazzo revamp around a decade later came in at around £75m.
There has and always will be lots of money put behind this intruguing monument to modern consumerism, and big brands will continue to flock to open units within the huge expanse whenever they can: some of the most recent being Archie’s, Flying Tiger, Sephora, Tiffany, Gymshark and more.
We’ll admit the aesthetic still makes us double-take from time to time (though not as much as confused Londoners visiting for the first time), but it’s not like this part of the world hasn’t boasted plenty of other curiosities in the past…
Featured Images — Charles Bowring (via Wikimedia Commons)/The Manc Group
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‘Nothing is eternal’: Is Pep Guardiola hinting at the end of Manchester City’s supremacy?
Danny Jones
Pep Guardiola looks to have suggested that more than a decade of Manchester City’s supremacy and Premier League dominance at the very least might be coming to an end.
Speaking in his post-match press interviews after City were knocked out of the Champions League by serial European Cup winners Real Madrid, Guardiola cut a somewhat more deflated figure than usual following the 3-1 defeat.
A Kylian Mbappe hattrick which was closed out within an hour of play was enough to stretch the aggregate score to 6-3 over the two legs and Madrid doubling their lead across the tie proved yet again why, not unlike City domestically over the last decade, they’re the kings of the continental competition.
In contrast, however, Pep seemed to accept the loss much more easily than perhaps we’ve seen in the past and rather than appearing familiarly frustrated or defiant in the press conference; instead, he seemed rather reflective, responding to one reporter: “Nothing is eternal”.
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Insisting that they have to decide whether a significant rebuild is needed to keep competing at the very top level consistently as they have done since the 54-year-old arrived back in 2016, he argued that it is only with that they’ll be able to determine what comes next.
As for the result itself, he made no bones about Carlo Ancelotti’s side having “deserved it”, stating simply that “the best team won” and that fans and players alike have to “accept the reality: they were better.”
Having been a familiar foe for Pep long before he arrived in Manchester, both at Barcelona and Bayern Munich – not to mention City having faced Los Blancos a dozen times before Tuesday night since 2012 – there have been less surprising outcomes for supporters to come to terms with.
“With time, the club and everyone is going to accept what it is but for now we have 30/40 games for the Premier League next season to try and be here [in the Champions League] and to improve. Nothing is eternal”, said the Catalan coaching genius.
On the other hand, he also went on to add that it was merely a reflection on the night itself and not what his team have achieved in recent years.
He went on to remark that “when we were playing outstanding it hurt more” to be knocked out of the UCL when he felt they deserved to stay in it, but still insisted: “We have been unbelievable and we have to try step by step to get better from today.” Tonight just wasn’t the night.
Who knows? Perhaps it was just some more melodrama from a manager with an undeniable flare for pageantry and playing into/in the face of narratives when he doesn’t come out on top – which hasn’t happened all that often until their dip in form this season.
Plus, there’s certainly still plenty for him and the fans to be positive about; not only has the arrival of their ‘Egyptian Prince’ and the media’s Mo Salah successor, Omar Marmoush, got plenty of people excited – especially after that first-half hattrick against Newcastle – but so too have the other January signings.
In fact, for all of his downplaying in this particular presser (which you can hear in full HERE), it felt like there were only upsides after their victory over Newcastle, even going so far as to dub new signing Nico Gonzalez a ‘mini-Rodri‘.
You can watch the highlights from the game down below:
Pep is right, nothing is eternal – but sometimes you just come up against talents like Mbappe and there’s very little anyone can do about it.
Emily Sergeant -
29th October 2020 
