Night Replenishment, Supermarket Assistant

About the role

As a Supermarket Assistant, 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 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.

Due to working time regulations, applicants must be 18 years or over to apply.

Key Responsibilities

  • Stock replenishment – ensuring our shelves remain full and products are in the right place at the right time.
  • Fulfilling online customer orders ready for our drivers to deliver the shopping directly to the doors.
  • Reducing wastage by following product due diligence and markdowns to those reaching their sell by dates.
  • Working with the wider shop team to support when needed including checkout support, managing Click & Collect orders, fulfilling on-demand customer orders and more.
  • Maintaining a safe and tidy working environment 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 our customers.

Desirable skills/experience you may have

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

Benefits

  • Pre-employment vetting may be required (DBS checks, financial probity checks).
  • Flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts where possible.
  • Potential to apply early if the vacancy closes due to high application volume.

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 encourage you to complete any vetting documents quickly to avoid delays. If required, you will be informed and provided with information about vetting during the recruitment process.

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.

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