Customer Delivery Driver, Supermarket Assistant

Waitrose & Partners; Reading; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading supermarket as a Customer Delivery Driver, playing a crucial role in delivering quality produce and exceptional service. You'll manage delivery routes, ensure vehicle safety, and engage with customers directly. This full-time position offers a rewarding experience within a strong team culture and a commitment to excellent service.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Employee ownership

Qualifications

• 18 years or older to work in this role.
• Full valid UK manual driving licence required.

Responsibilities

• Load and prepare van for deliveries.
• Ensure vehicle safety compliance and customer service.
• Support shop team with daily tasks.

Skills

Customer service skills

Time management

Physical capability

IT literate

Education

Valid B-Category UK manual driving licence

Job description

Customer Delivery Driver, Supermarket Assistant

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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

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