About the role
As a Partner on our service counters, you'll have the perfect opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge and passion for food while feeling proud of how it is ethically sourced and recommend recipes for customers to try. You'll actively be bringing our ethos - passionate Partners serving food lovers - to life. You'll use your enthusiasm and friendliness to build lasting relationships with your customers. You'll make all the difference to the impression they 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
* You'll take responsibility for your own food counter ensuring the highest presentation and hygiene standards at all times.
* Staying on top of stock levels, ensuring the products our customers love are there when needed.
* Taking great care while working with open food and ensure all due diligence and health & safety protocols are followed. Helping to reduce food wastage.
* Maintaining your knowledge of new products and have a good understanding of Waitrose's food values (e.g., animal welfare).
* Supporting the wider shop team when required with general shopkeeping tasks.
Essential skills/experience you'll need
* Communication skills to enable you to work effectively as part of a team and with our customers.
Desirable skills/experience you may have
* Experience of working in a customer-facing role is welcomed.
* Experience of working in a catering / hospitality environment.
* Up-to-date knowledge and strong interest in food and drink trends.
* Flexible approach to ensure the support of the whole branch.
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 focused on being brilliant at retail. We continue to innovate, adapt, and diversify. We are committed to price, quality, and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose.
As Partners, we share the responsibility of ownership and its rewards. We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviors and treating everyone with kindness and respect.
We all own making the Partnership a place where we belong. Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we're free to be ourselves and thrive. Growing ourselves individually and collectively.
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. 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 as soon as possible, as vacancies can close early if we see a high number of applicants.
* We support flexible working to promote a good work-life balance. This might include flexible or compressed hours, job sharing, or shorter contracts. Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview.
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