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. Your strong leadership and teamwork 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.
If you join us from 5th October 2025, in addition to your contractual pay, any time worked between 22:00 – 06:00 will attract Night Premium at a rate of £4.50 per hour. This will also apply to existing partners who have enrolled onto Enhanced Hours Premium arrangements.
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 such as 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
* Experience of leading a team in a fast‑paced, customer‑focused environment.
* People Management skills.
* Able to demonstrate an innate passion for and understanding of retail.
* Resilience to support and plan your team’s response to change.
* Ability to influence stakeholders.
* Advanced communication skills.
Desirable Skills / Experience
* Experience of supporting with the disciplinary and grievance process.
* Regulatory compliance management.
* Personal licence holder.
* Food hygiene level 3.
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, continually innovating, adapting and diversifying. As Partners, we all share the responsibility of ownership and reap the rewards together.
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 occasionally close vacancies early in the event we receive a high volume of applications, and therefore, we recommend you apply early. If you require a reasonable adjustment due to a disability which means you may need longer to complete your application please contact us as soon as possible.
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.
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