Team Manager

# ABOUT THE ROLE Due to the nature of this role, applicants must be 18 years or over to apply. 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. In addition to your contractual pay, any time worked between 22:00 - 06:00 will attract Night Premium at a rate of £4.75 per hour. This will also apply to existing Partners who have enrolled onto Enhanced Hours Premium arrangements. **Key Responsibilities** 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. - 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. - People Management skills. - 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. - Food Hygiene Level 3. #LI-SHOPTRADE #LI-JLPWTR ***From 1st April 2025 the pay range for this role will be £34,250 to £46,000.*** To learn more about this role, please copy and paste this link into a new browser window: Please refer to the job outline above for more information on the role **Closing Date:** July 17, 2026 **Pay:** £35,500.00 - £48,500.00 Annual **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 8 **Where You'll Be Working:** Admiral Park (Waitrose & Partners), Admiral Park, St Peter Port, , GY1 2AL # 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 (which may inclu…