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.
It's fast paced and at times you'll oversee the entire day-to-day operation of the shop.
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.
Using your people skills to manage your team, from leading and inspiring to people related tasks like organising holidays and managing absences.
Engage and lead partners in delivering and embedding change consistently and effectively within your shop.
People Management skills.
Regulatory Compliance Management.
Food Hygiene Level 3.
We’re the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose. We’re ruthlessly focused on being brilliant at retail. Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose.
It’s important to note that some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting (which may include DBS checks for successful candidates). 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.
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.