Hospitality, Supermarket Assistant

Waitrose & Partners; Chigwell; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Waitrose & Partners as a Supermarket Assistant, where you'll showcase your passion for ethically sourced food while providing excellent service to our customers. This role involves maintaining high standards, engaging with customers, and contributing to a team dedicated to creating a welcoming atmosphere. We're looking for enthusiastic individuals ready to embrace our values of quality service and teamwork in a fast-paced retail environment.

Qualifications

• Ability to work as part of a team and with customers.
• Desirable experience in customer-facing roles.
• Interest in food and drink trends.

Responsibilities

• Maintain high presentation and hygiene standards at food counters.
• Manage stock levels and ensure product availability.
• Support wider shop team with general tasks.

Skills

Communication

Job description

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About The Role

As a Partner on our service counters, you'll have the perfect opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge and passion for food while feeling proud of how it is ethically sourced and recommend recipes for customers to try. You'll actively be bringing our ethos - passionate Partners serving food lovers - to life. You'll use your enthusiasm and friendliness to build lasting relationships with your customers. You'll make all the difference to the impression they have about the Waitrose brand and keep them returning again and again by earning their trust and loyalty for a lifetime. All the while helping to maximise on sales and profit.

About The Role

As a Partner on our service counters, you'll have the perfect opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge and passion for food while feeling proud of how it is ethically sourced and recommend recipes for customers to try. You'll actively be bringing our ethos - passionate Partners serving food lovers - to life. You'll use your enthusiasm and friendliness to build lasting relationships with your customers. You'll make all the difference to the impression they have about the Waitrose brand and keep them returning again and again by earning their trust and loyalty for a lifetime. All the while helping to maximise on sales and profit.

We request that candidates only apply for this position if you can fully commit to the advertised working hours, or we will be unable to proceed with your application. These vacancies are for all year round and are not suitable for term time only or holiday time only.

Available Vacancies

Waitrose Buckhurst Hill

R-176319 Hospitality, Supermarket Assistant : (30hrs) Tuesday 07:00-14:00, Friday 07:00-14:00 and Saturday 08:00-17:00.

R-177843 Hospitality, Supermarket Assistant: (30hrs) Week 1 Sunday 09:00-17:00 and Thursday 07:00-14:00. Week 2 Sunday 09:00-17:00, Thursday 07:00-14:00 and Wednesday 08:00-14:00.

R-177858 Hospitality, Supermarket Assistant : (30hrs) Week 1 Tuesday 08:00-14:00, Friday 08:00-14:00 and Saturday 07:00-14:00, Week 2 Sunday 09:00-17:00, Tuesday 09:00-17:00 and Friday 09:00-17:00.

Key Responsibilities

• You'll take responsibility for your own food counter ensuring the highest presentation and hygiene standards at all times.
• Staying on top of stock levels, ensuring the products our customers love are there when needed.
• Taking great care while working with open food and ensure all due diligence and health & safety protocols are followed. Helping to reduce food wastage.
• Maintaining your knowledge of new products and have a good understanding of Waitrose's food values (e.g. animal welfare).
• Supporting the wider shop team when required with general shopkeeping tasks.
  
  

Essential Skills/experience You'll Need

• Communication skills to enable you to work effectively as part of a team and with our customers.
  
  

Desirable Skills/experience You May Have

• Experience of working in a customer facing role is welcomed.
• Experience of working in a catering / hospitality environment.
• Up to date knowledge and strong interest in food and drink trends.
• Flexible approach to ensure the support of the whole branch.
  
  

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

  Sales and Business Development

• Industries

  Retail

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