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Our Purpose
Working in Partnership for a happier world - our shared Purpose that guides us in everything we do and inspires 3 important principles; happier people, happier business, happier world. The John Lewis Partnership is a truly unique business, one that seeks to make a positive difference to the lives of everyone.
Duties and Responsibilities:
As Partners - members of the Partnership - it's our responsibility to ensure our success for the future. We proactively seek out opportunities to continuously improve the way we work, taking action to ensure the Partnership is efficient and we are all as productive as possible. It's an ethos each and every Partner works by and you'll carry into your own role too.
As a Team Manager you'll be responsible for influencing, motivating and guiding a team whilst driving the shop forward. You will contribute to the overall performance of our unique brand through exceptional shop keeping and line management skills.
You'll be a proactive role model for delivering superb customer service, overseeing the shop floor, to ensure our customers get the best experience. At times you'll manage the entire day to day operation to optimise sales, profitability, customer satisfaction and minimising wastage. Equally you'll promote a culture of continuous learning and delivering an outstanding Partner experience by unlocking their full potential.
Job Requirements:
You'll ensure consistently high levels of availability and exceptional merchandising standards as well as delivering an efficient, legal, and secure store operation. You'll take responsibility for the operational activity.
Required essential experience skills and qualifications:
* Experience of supervising a team in a fast-moving, customer focused environment
Benefits of the Partnership
You will enjoy 25% discount at John Lewis and 20% in Waitrose. The Partnership has a competitive pension scheme where your contributions will be matched by the Partnership (up to 8% of pay). Excellent work-life balance, including a focus on well-being and flexible working and our marketing leading equal parenthood leave Policy.
Please consider the following when making your application:
* Please be aware that due to the nature and activities of this role, all successful candidates will have a 5 year reference check, 5 year financial probity and a DBS check carried out on them through a 3rd party registered body.
* We occasionally close vacancies early in the event we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore, we recommend you apply early.
* Ensure you have an up-to-date CV.
Company
The John Lewis Partnership is the UK’s largest employee-owned business and home to our two cherished retail brands - John Lewis & Partners and Waitrose & Partners. Over the next few years, we’re looking to diversify beyond just retail into areas like Financial Services and Build to rent properties, making it an extremely exciting time to join us.
By joining the Partnership you’ll be joining a unique kind of business. One that puts people before profits and looks to make a positive difference, not just to ourselves, but to the communities we serve and work with, all over the world.
Our Values and Democracy
Being a Partner, a co-owner in the Partnership, makes you so much more than just an employee. Because of this, it comes with a different set of responsibilities compared to working in other organisations.
As Partners, it’s our role to ensure that our democracy and business continues to thrive by asking the right questions and holding each and everyone of us to account, including our leaders. But we do so in a way that holds true to our values, treating everyone with kindness and respect, with our own integrity and with the best intentions of the Partnership’s success at heart.
It’s YOU we’re interested in
At the John Lewis Partnership, we positively celebrate diversity & inclusion, truly embracing individuals’ contributions, regardless of their age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexuality, social background, religion or belief.
We will do as much as we can to support you with completing your application. Depending on the position you are applying for, this could involve help with the following:
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