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.
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 in a fast-paced, customer focused environment. 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 You May Have
Experience of supporting with the Disciplinary and Grievance process. Regulatory Compliance Management. Personal Licence Holder. 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. We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify. Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose. 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. If required, you’ll find out more about vetting throughout the recruitment process and we encourage you to complete any vetting documents quickly to avoid delays. We also recommend that you apply as soon as possible as vacancies can close early if we see a high number of applicants. 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. We believe in ensuring our Partners have access to a complete spectrum of benefits whilst in the business. After all, our Partners make our Partnership what it is. Learn a new skill or become more proficient in your hobbies by claiming up to half the cost of certain tutored courses which you pay for yourself (up to a maximum of £250 per year). Partner Discount
25% off at John Lewis and 20% at Waitrose. We know you’d like this one! (some exclusions apply) Clubs & Societies
From arts & crafts to fishing, from skiing to running, we have so many clubs and societies bringing Partners with shared interests together. Enjoy a generous holiday provision. Plenty of time for some rest and relaxation. (The amount of holiday you’ll get depends on your role and working hours. It increases over time). Pension & Life Assurance
Secure your future with our comprehensive pension scheme and life assurance. Partnership Hotels
Recharge and reconnect at our exclusive Partner hotels in locations across the UK!
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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 in a fast-paced, customer focused environment. 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 You May Have
Experience of supporting with the Disciplinary and Grievance process. Regulatory Compliance Management. Personal Licence Holder. 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. We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify. Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose. 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. If required, you’ll find out more about vetting throughout the recruitment process and we encourage you to complete any vetting documents quickly to avoid delays. We also recommend that you apply as soon as possible as vacancies can close early if we see a high number of applicants. 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. We believe in ensuring our Partners have access to a complete spectrum of benefits whilst in the business. After all, our Partners make our Partnership what it is. Learn a new skill or become more proficient in your hobbies by claiming up to half the cost of certain tutored courses which you pay for yourself (up to a maximum of £250 per year). Partner Discount
25% off at John Lewis and 20% at Waitrose. We know you’d like this one! (some exclusions apply) Clubs & Societies
From arts & crafts to fishing, from skiing to running, we have so many clubs and societies bringing Partners with shared interests together. Enjoy a generous holiday provision. Plenty of time for some rest and relaxation. (The amount of holiday you’ll get depends on your role and working hours. It increases over time). Pension & Life Assurance
Secure your future with our comprehensive pension scheme and life assurance. Partnership Hotels
Recharge and reconnect at our exclusive Partner hotels in locations across the UK!
#J-18808-Ljbffr
