Team Manager (Jersey)

jlp; St. Brelade; Presencial; GBP 36.000 - 49.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Waitrose & Partners in Jersey is seeking a Team Manager to lead a fast-paced shop floor, inspire the team and deliver outstanding partner-led, customer service that is distinctively Waitrose.

You will maximise sales, minimise wastage, manage holidays and absences, and foster a culture of care, belonging, pace and productivity while guiding partners through change.

Formación

• Experience leading a team in a fast-paced, customer-focused environment.
• Ability to build high-performing teams and have regular performance conversations.
• Passion for retail, understanding market factors affecting partners.

Responsabilidades

• Maximise sales and profit while minimising wastage.
• Ensure high availability and merchandising, and secure store operations.
• Improve and maintain customer satisfaction.
• Lead and organise holidays and manage absences for your team.
• Create a culture of care, belonging, pace and productivity.
• Engage partners and deliver change within your shop.

Conocimientos

Team leadership

People management

Retail experience

Stakeholder communication

Performance coaching

Descripción del empleo

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Team Manager in one of our Waitrose shops, you'll influence and motivate your team and be a positive role model for delivering outstanding Partner-led, customer service that is distinctively Waitrose, passionate Partners serving food lovers. Your strong leadership and team working skills will make all the difference to your team and, ultimately, the impression our customers have about the Waitrose brand. Keeping them returning again and again by earning their trust and loyalty for a lifetime, whilst helping to maximise 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 £4.75 per hour. This will also apply to existing Partners who have enrolled onto Enhanced Hours Premium arrangements.

Due to the nature of this role, applicants must be 18 years or over to apply.

Key Responsibilities

• Using your commercial skills to maximise sales and profit while minimising wastage.
• Ensuring consistently high levels of availability and merchandising as well as delivering an efficient, legal, and secure store operation.
• Improving and maintaining customer satisfaction.
• Using your people skills to manage your team, from leading and inspiring to people related tasks like organising holidays and managing absences.
• Create a supportive culture of care, belonging, pace and productivity.
• Engage and lead partners in delivering and embedding change consistently and effectively within your shop.

Essential skills/experience you'll need

• Experience of leading a team with a proven track record in a fast-paced, customer-focused environment.
• Ability to build high-performing teams, recognise talent, and hold regular, honest performance conversations.
• A passion for retail, understanding competitors and the economic factors impacting the Partnership.
• Ability to assess workload realistically and adapt plans to ensure deadlines are hit and stakeholder relationships are maintained.
• Ability to communicate with clarity and influence stakeholders at all levels.

Desirable skills/experience you may have

• Experience with Disciplinary & Grievance processes.
• Hiring Manager/ Recruitment experience.
• Food Hygiene Level 3.
• Personal licence holder.
• Experience in regulatory compliance management.

Closing Date: October 11, 2026

Pay: £35,500.00 - £48,500.00 Annual

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours of Work: Varied hours of full across seven days to include early starts, late finishes, evenings and weekends.

Job Level: Partnership Level 8

Where You'll Be Working: Red Houses (Waitrose & Partners), Red Houses, St Brelade, , JE3 8LB

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.

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.