Supermarket Assistant, Team Leader

About the role

As a Team Leader within one of our Waitrose shops, you'll help our difference be felt by our customers on every visit, providing the Partner-led service and passion for food that our competitors can't compete with - passionate Partners serving food lovers. Your drive to go the extra mile to help both customers and Partners will make all the difference to the impression our customers 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. In addition to your contractual pay, any time worked between 22:00 - 06:00 will attract Night Premium at a rate of £3.75 per hour. This will also apply to existing Partners who have enrolled onto Enhanced Hours Premium arrangements. Join the Team at Chelmer Village! We are thrilled to announce that a brand-new Waitrose Convenience shop is arriving in Chelmer Village on 2nd July 2026 , and we're looking for dedicated Partners to help us build this shop from the ground up. As a vital member of our founding team, you'll work side-by-side with your colleagues to champion the quality, integrity, and unique shopping experience our customers love. This is a brilliant opportunity to: Collaborate with a brand-new team to create a welcoming atmosphere. Contribute your expertise to ensure our very first day is a success. Connect with the Chelmer community and provide excellence in every interaction. If you have a passion for working together and want to be part of a new opening, we'd love for you to join us in making our newest branch a local favorite.

Responsibilities

• Alongside the great service you provide to our customers, your role will involve a variety of shop-keeping related tasks to keep the things running efficiently and productively. Responsibilities include:
• Supporting the shop's management team with managerial tasks and work with all other areas of the shop to meet customer demand.
• Ensuring Partners are operating in a safe and legal manner.
• Fulfilling online customer orders ready for our drivers to deliver their shopping direct to their doors.
• Stock replenishment - ensuring our shelves remain as full as possible and products are in the right place at the right time for our customers.
• Working with the wider shop team to support when needed including; checkout support, managing Click & Collect orders, fulfilling on-demand customer orders and more.
• Being proactive in helping to drive the commercial performance for the shop, offering ideas for continuous improvement to the operation.
• Reducing wastage by following product due diligence and markdowns to those reaching their sell by dates.
• Maintaining a safe and tidy working environment with general shopkeeping tasks.
• Essential skills/experience you'll need
• Good people and leadership skills.
• Good understanding of retail and how to maximise commercial success.
• Experience of working in a customer facing role
• Good stakeholder management skills when working with third parties and the wider Partnership.
• Desirable skills/experience you may have
• -Duty Manager Training (Internal Partners only).
• Closing Date:
• June 10, 2026
• Pay:
• £14.58 Hourly
• Contract Type:
• Permanent
• Hours of Work:
• Varied hours of full time work (37.5 hours) across seven days to include early starts, late finishes, evenings and weekends.
• Job Level:
• Partnership Level 10
• Where You'll Be Working:
• Chelmer Village (Waitrose & Partners), Unit F Chelmer Village Retail Park, Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 6XE
• 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:

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