Hospitality, Supermarket Assistant

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Job summary

A leading retail company is seeking a Hospitality, Supermarket Assistant for their Alton location. You'll demonstrate your passion for food, build relationships with customers, and manage product presentation while ensuring hygiene standards. This part-time role includes working Wednesday to Saturday, offering £12.40 hourly with a permanent contract.

Qualifications

• Ability to work effectively as part of a team and with customers.
• Experience in a customer-facing role is welcomed.
• Knowledge and strong interest in food and drink trends.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the highest presentation and hygiene standards at the food counter.
• Manage stock levels and product availability.
• Follow health & safety protocols.

Skills

Communication skills

Job description

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Hospitality, Supermarket Assistant

Apply locations Alton (Waitrose & Partners) posted on Posted Yesterday job requisition id R-181622

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.

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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.

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Closing Date:

August 2, 2025

Pay:

£12.40 Hourly

Contract Type:

Permanent

Hours of Work:

Part-time hours working 05:00 - 13:00 every Wednesday - Saturday

Job Level:

Partnership Level 10

Where You'll Be Working:

Alton (Waitrose & Partners), Station Road, Alton, Hampshire, GU34 2GD

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.

At Waitrose, we LOVE food, and we’re all about creating truly extraordinary shopping experiences by sharing our passion with our food loving customers.

We don’t just give great service and stock shelves, we forge an emotional connection with our customers through our shared passion for great food. Setting us apart from other supermarkets.