Supermarket Assistant, Team Leader

John Lewis plc; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 17,000 - 24,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Night premium

Job summary

John Lewis Partnership is hiring a Team Leader in a Waitrose shop to support management, lead Partner teams and ensure excellent customer service. You will oversee daily operations, assist with online orders, stock replenishment, and drive commercial results while maintaining safety and standards.

The role offers part-time shifts (Fri–Sun), with a night premium for late hours and a temporary contract. You will be working in Cambridge at Waitrose, contributing to a high-quality shopping

Qualifications

• Strong people leadership and team management skills.
• Understanding of retail operations and how to drive sales and margin.
• Experience in customer-facing roles and delivering great service.
• Ability to manage relationships with third parties and internal stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Assist the store management team with daily operations and cross-functional tasks.
• Ensure Partners work safely and in compliance with policies and legal requirements.
• Fulfill online orders and prepare orders for home delivery.
• Maintain stock availability and correct product placement on shelves.
• Support with checkout, Click & Collect and on-demand orders as needed.
• Contribute ideas to improve shop performance and commercial results.
• Help reduce waste through proper handling of dated/markdown products.
• Keep the working environment tidy and safe.

Skills

People leadership

Retail knowledge

Customer facing experience

Stakeholder management

Job description

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Team Leader within one of our Waitrose shops, you’ll help our difference be felt by our customers on every visit, providing the Partner-led service and passion for food that our competitors can’t compete with - passionate Partners serving food lovers. Your drive to go the extra mile to help both customers and Partners will make all the difference to the impression our customers 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. In addition to your contractual pay, any time worked between 22:00 - 06:00 will attract Night Premium at a rate of £3.75 per hour. This will also apply to existing Partners who have enrolled onto Enhanced Hours Premium arrangements.

Key Responsibilities

• Supporting the shop’s management team with managerial tasks and work with all other areas of the shop to meet customer demand.
• Ensuring Partners are operating in a safe and legal manner.
• Fulfilling online customer orders ready for our drivers to deliver their shopping direct to their doors.
• Stock replenishment - ensuring our shelves remain as full as possible and products are in the right place at the right time for our customers.
• Working with the wider shop team to support when needed including checkout support, managing Click & Collect orders, fulfilling on-demand customer orders and more.
• Being proactive in helping to drive the commercial performance for the shop, offering ideas for continuous improvement to the operation.
• Reducing wastage by following product due diligence and markdowns to those reaching their sell by dates.
• Maintaining a safe and tidy working environment with general shopkeeping tasks.

Essential skills/experience you’ll need

• Good people and leadership skills.
• Good understanding of retail and how to maximise commercial success.
• Experience of working in a customer facing role
• Good stakeholder management skills when working with third parties and the wider Partnership.

Desirable skills/experience you may have

• Duty Manager Training (Internal Partners only).

Closing Date: October 15, 2026

Pay: £14.58 Hourly

Contract Type: Temporary

Hours of Work: Part time contracts available (22.5 hours per week) working from 14:00 - 22:00 on Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays

Job Level: Partnership Level 10

Where You’ll Be Working: Fitzroy Steet (Waitrose & Partners), 6-8 Fitzroy Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB1 1EW

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 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 the John Lewis Partnership we’re not just employees; we’re co-owners, and that’s why we’re called Partners. Being a Partner means not only do we all collectively share the responsibilities of being the UK’s largest employee-owned business, but we also share in its rewards and successes. It’s this ownership model that makes the Partnership a very unique place to work.