Customer Delivery Driver, Supermarket Assistant
Job Type: Customer Service
Location: Partnership Level 10
Closing Date: 27/01/2025
Vacancy Type: Permanent
Salary Frequency: Hourly
Hours of Work: Varied hours of part-time work across seven days, including early starts, late finishes, evenings, and weekends between the hours of 06:30 and 22:15.
This is a really important front-line role. You represent us with every single customer you meet, and their impression of Waitrose & Partners is down to you. You should be passionate about providing the very highest levels of customer service.
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.
Due to the delivery/handling/selling of age-restricted items, applicants must be 18 years or over to apply.
You’ll be the friendly face of our business – the helpful driver who delivers the unique blend of Waitrose quality and outstanding service right to our customers’ doors. When you’re not out and about, you’ll be at the store, assisting with stock control and cashiering, which may involve lifting heavy products.
A good appreciation of health & safety is a must, along with excellent driving skills – and we will ask you to take a driving assessment as part of your application.
Required Essential Experience, Skills, and Qualifications:
You will need a full valid UK manual driving licence with no more than six points and you should be 18 years old or over. Part of the application process will include a licence check and a security check to confirm your suitability for the role.
Required Desirable Experience, Skills, and Qualifications:
Previous experience in a driving role and knowledge of chilled vehicles would be welcomed.
Additional Information:
As a Partner, you will enjoy our unique benefits package, including staff discount, subsidised food in Partner dining rooms, discounts in local restaurants, subsidised learning, access to exclusive Partnership hotels, and more.
Please consider the following when making your application:
1. We occasionally close vacancies early if we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore, we recommend you apply early.
2. Print off the job description now if you require it.
3. Due to the nature and activities of this role, all successful candidates will have a driving license check and DBS check carried out on them through a registered body. For more details on DBS checks, please visit the Government website.
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.
We’re focused on being brilliant at retail and continue to innovate, adapt, and diversify.
As Partners, we all share the responsibility of ownership and its rewards. We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times.
We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong, embracing our differences and creating an environment where we’re free to be ourselves.
Important Points to Note:
It’s important to note that some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting. If required, you’ll find out more about vetting throughout the recruitment process.
We also recommend that you apply as soon as possible as vacancies can close early if we see a high number of applicants.
We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing, or shorter hour contracts, where possible.
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