Team Manager Waitrose South Woodford

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Key Responsibilities

It's fast paced and at times you'll oversee the entire day-to-day operation of the shop.

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

Essential skills/experience you'll need

1. Experience of leading a team in a fast-paced, customer focused environment.
2. People Management skills.
3. Able to demonstrate an innate passion for and understanding of retail.
4. Resilience to support and plan your team’s response to change.
5. Ability to influence stakeholders.
6. Advanced communication skills.

Desirable skills/experience you may have

1. Experience of supporting with the Disciplinary and Grievance process.
2. Regulatory Compliance Management.
3. Personal Licence Holder.
4. Food Hygiene Level 3.

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.