Customer Delivery Driver, Supermarket Assistant

Waitrose & Partners; Maidstone; On-site; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading supermarket as a Customer Delivery Driver, where you'll deliver quality products and provide exceptional service to customers. You'll also assist in the shop with daily tasks, ensuring a friendly and efficient environment. This role requires a valid driving license and strong customer service skills.

Qualifications

• Must be 18 years or older to work in this role.
• Previous experience in a driving role is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Check delivery routes and prepare van for deliveries.
• Ensure vehicle safety checks are complete.
• Provide excellent customer service while delivering.

Skills

Customer service

Time management

IT literate

Education

Full valid B-Category UK manual driving licence

Job description

Customer Delivery Driver, Supermarket Assistant

Customer Delivery Driver, Supermarket Assistant

1 day ago Be among the first 25 applicants

About The Role

As one of our Customer Delivery Drivers, you’ll be bringing the unique blend of quality Waitrose produce and Partner-led service right to our customers’ doors. Actively playing out our ethos - passionate Partners serving food lovers. When you're not out on the road, you'll be back at the shop supporting the team with daily tasks like stock replenishment and housekeeping. Contributing to the efficient and productive running of the shop in a friendly and welcoming team.Due to its nature, you need to be 18-years or older to work in this role.

About The Role

As one of our Customer Delivery Drivers, you’ll be bringing the unique blend of quality Waitrose produce and Partner-led service right to our customers’ doors. Actively playing out our ethos - passionate Partners serving food lovers. When you're not out on the road, you'll be back at the shop supporting the team with daily tasks like stock replenishment and housekeeping. Contributing to the efficient and productive running of the shop in a friendly and welcoming team.Due to its nature, you need to be 18-years or older to work in this role. Key Responsibilities You'll typically start your day in store and you'll be responsible for: - Checking your delivery routes for the day. - Loading and preparing your van for deliveries, ensuring all orders are together and can be efficiently delivered directly to customers. - Ensuring all of the appropriate vehicle safety checks are complete on your van, maintaining full road compliance, health and safety. - Being an ambassador for the Waitrose brand while on the road with great customer service as your number one priority. - Helping customers with their shopping and building a rapport with them based on trust and service. - Supporting the wider shop team when required with general shopkeeping tasks. Essential skills/experience you'll need - Full valid B-Category UK manual driving licence with no more than 6-points. - Great customer service skills. -Time management skills. - Able to cope with the physical requirements of the role (e.g. lifting of crates, moving cages). - Comfortable working independently with the ability to be self motivated and adaptable. - IT literate. Desirable skills/experience you may have - Previous experience in a driving role and a knowledge of chilled vehicles would be welcomed.

About The Partnership

We’re the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose. We’re not just employees, we’re Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world. As we look to our future, there’s never been a more exciting time to join us.

We’re ruthlessly focused on being brilliant at retail. We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify. Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose.

As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards. We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone with kindness and respect.

We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong. Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we’re free to be ourselves and can THRIVE. Growing ourselves individually, and as a collective.

As Partners, we make all the difference. And, we all own it.

Important points to note:

It’s important to note that some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting (which may include DBS checks for successful candidates). If required, you’ll be informed and provided with information about vetting during the recruitment process and we encourage you to complete any vetting documents quickly to avoid delays. Any DBS checks required will be carried out by a third-party registered body and financial probity checks may also be required for some of our roles.

We also recommend that you apply as soon as possible as vacancies can close early if we see a high number of applicants.

We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where possible. Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Retail

Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Waitrose & Partners by 2x

Sign in to set job alerts for “Delivery Driver” roles.

Dealership Driver & Coordinator - Mercedes-Benz of Dartford

Dartford, England, United Kingdom 2 months ago

Maidstone, England, United Kingdom 8 months ago

Aylesford, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago

Aylesford, England, United Kingdom 1 hour ago

Aylesford, England, United Kingdom 4 days ago

Aylesford, England, United Kingdom 3 days ago

Snodland, England, United Kingdom 3 weeks ago

Tonbridge, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago

Detling, England, United Kingdom 3 days ago

Tonbridge, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago

Maidstone, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago

Swanley, England, United Kingdom 2 days ago

Grays, England, United Kingdom 3 days ago

Customer Delivery Driver, Supermarket Assistant

Maidstone, England, United Kingdom £13.39-£13.61 7 hours ago

New Hythe, England, United Kingdom 1 month ago

Aylesford, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago

Gillingham, England, United Kingdom 6 days ago

Grays, England, United Kingdom 5 months ago

Ditton, England, United Kingdom 4 days ago

Leeds, England, United Kingdom 2 weeks ago

Dartford, England, United Kingdom 5 months ago

Maidstone, England, United Kingdom 2 days ago

Rochester, England, United Kingdom 1 month ago

Maidstone, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago

Grays, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago

Crayford, England, United Kingdom 1 month ago

Dartford, England, United Kingdom 1 month ago

Larkfield, England, United Kingdom 3 months ago

Maidstone, England, United Kingdom 10 months ago

Fobbing, England, United Kingdom 5 months ago

Romford, England, United Kingdom 7 months ago

HGV Driver -Fixed Term until 31st of October 2025

Stansted, England, United Kingdom 2 days ago

TMO (Qualified & Unqualified) - All Depots

We’re unlocking community knowledge in a new way. Experts add insights directly into each article, started with the help of AI.