Hospitality, Supermarket Assistant

About the role

As a Partner on our service counters, you'll have the perfect opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge and passion for food while feeling proud of how it is ethically sourced, to recommend recipes for customers to try. You'll actively bring our ethos-passionate Partners serving food lovers-to life. Your enthusiasm and friendliness will build lasting relationships with customers, helping maximise sales and profit.

Key Responsibilities

• Take responsibility for your own food counter, ensuring the highest presentation and hygiene standards at all times.
• Stay on top of stock levels, ensuring products customers love are available when needed.
• Take great care while working with open food and ensure all due diligence and health & safety protocols are followed, helping reduce food wastage.
• Maintain knowledge of new products and have a good understanding of Waitrose's food values (e.g. animal welfare).
• Support the wider shop team when required with general shopkeeping tasks.

Essential skills/experience you'll need

• Communication skills to enable you to work effectively as part of a team and with customers.
• Minimum age of 18 years or over.

Desirable skills/experience you may have

• Experience of working in a customer facing role.
• Experience of working in a catering/hospitality environment.
• Up to date knowledge and strong interest in food and drink trends.
• Flexible approach to support the whole branch.

Pre employment vetting

Some of our roles are subject to pre employment vetting, which may include DBS checks and financial probity checks.