Team Manager

Overview

As a Team Manager in one of our Waitrose shops, you\\u2019ll 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\\u2019ll Need

• 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\\u2019s 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.
• Food Hygiene Level 3.

About The Partnership

We\\u2019re the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose. We\\u2019re not just employees, we\\u2019re Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world. As we look to our future, there\\u2019s never been a more exciting time to join us. We\\u2019re 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\\u2019re 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\\u2019s 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\\u2019ll 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.