Supermarket Assistant, Team Leader Nights

Waitrose & Partners; Marlborough; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading employee-owned business as a Team Leader at Waitrose. You will enhance customer experiences and support the management team, ensuring operational excellence. Your leadership and customer service skills will help drive sales and foster loyalty. Enjoy flexible working and be part of a culture that values every Partner's contribution.

Qualifications

• Experience in a customer-facing role.
• Good understanding of retail and commercial success.

Responsibilities

• Support the shop's management team with managerial tasks.
• Ensure safe and legal operations for Partners.
• Drive commercial performance and reduce wastage.

Skills

Leadership

Customer Service

Stakeholder Management

Job description

About the role

Due to working time regulations, applicants must be 18 years or over to apply. In addition to the pay stated, you will receive a shift premium for hours worked between 22:00 and 06:00. This will be paid at the pay range minimum rate for your 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Supporting the shop's management team with managerial tasks and working 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).

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:

Some 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. We encourage you to complete any vetting documents quickly to avoid delays. DBS checks will be carried out by a third-party registered body, and financial probity checks may also be required for some roles.

We recommend applying promptly as vacancies can close early if we receive a high number of applications.

We support flexible working to promote a good work-life balance. This might include flexible or compressed hours, job sharing, or shorter contracts, where possible. Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview.