Team Manager

John Lewis Partnership; High Wycombe; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Night premium

Enhanced hours premium

Job summary

John Lewis Partnership is seeking a Team Manager in High Wycombe to lead a dynamic team within a busy store. You will drive customer excellence, coordinate Partners, and deliver commercial results while maintaining high standards of safety and compliance.

In this role you will manage performance, ensure brand standards, and optimise resources to meet customer demand. Night premiums and Enhanced Hours arrangements may apply.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a team in a fast-paced, customer-focused environment and empowering people.
• Regulatory compliance management when required.
• Competent in using HR tools and systems (Workday or Tableau).
• Ability to analyze data and translate insights into actionable strategies.

Responsibilities

• Actively role model partnership behaviours and inspire a team of Partners with clear communication and talent development.
• Be directly accountable for performance, ensure processes and brand standards are followed, and drive success with operational strategies.
• Ensure the store is compliant and safe for customers and Partners.
• Allocate resources effectively to meet customer needs using available tools.
• Champion diversity, inclusion and wellbeing.

Skills

Team leadership

Regulatory compliance

HR tools (Workday/Tableau)

Data-driven decision making

Tools

Workday

Tableau

Job description

As a Team Manager within one of our John Lewis stores, you are integral to delivering the unique John Lewis difference. You will lead your teams to ensure that every customer has an outstanding experience, drive commercial results within your areas of responsibility, and allocate your team of Partners (employees) effectively.

Working in our store as a Team Manager, you'll thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where every day brings something new. Working alongside the leadership team, you’ll play a pivotal role in driving sales, delighting customers and Partners, and maintaining a safe, fully compliant store. In addition to your contractual pay, any time worked between 22:00 - 06:00 will attract Night Premium at a rate of £4.75 per hour. This will also apply to existing Partners who have enrolled onto Enhanced Hours Premium arrangements.

Key Responsibilities

As a Team Manager, your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Actively role modelling the partnership behaviours and inspiring a team of Partners through clear communication by managing the full Partner lifecycle, supporting them with talent development. Including addressing performance concerns promptly.
• Being directly accountable for performance within your area of responsibility. Making sure processes are followed, brand standards are delivered and that you use operational strategies to drive success.
• Ensuring the store is compliant and safe for our customers and partners
• Utilise tools provided to effectively allocate resources to meet our customer needs.
• Championing diversity, inclusion and wellbeing.

Essential skills/experience you'll need

• Experience of leading a team in a fast-paced, customer-focused environment with a proven track record as a specialist in people and driving a culture of empowerment.
• Regulatory Compliance Management (as required)
• Competent in using human resource tools and systems (e.g Workday or Tableau)
• Ability to analyse data and insights and translate them into actionable strategies.

Desirable skills/experience you may have:

• Experience in hiring, key-holder operations, and duty management
• Experience in managing disciplinary and grievance procedures
• A proven track record of successful identification and delivery of commercial opportunities and outcomes.

Closing Date:

September 14, 2026

Contract Type:

Permanent

Hours of Work:

37.5 hours per week. Varied shifts across seven days between the hours of 05:45 and 20:30. Shifts will include weekend working on rotation.

Where You'll Be Working:

High Wycombe (John Lewis & Partners), Holmers Farm Way, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP12 4NW

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.