Supermarket Assistant, Team Leader Nights

About the Role

As a Team Leader within one of our Waitrose shops, 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 to help both customers and Partners 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. All the while helping to maximise on 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 £3.75 per hour. This will also apply to existing Partners who have enrolled onto Enhanced Hours Premium arrangements.

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

Key Responsibilities

• Supporting the shop's management team with managerial tasks and work with all other areas of the shop to meet customer demand.
• Ensuring Partners are operating in a safe and legal manner.
• Fulfilling online customer orders ready for our drivers to deliver their shopping direct to their doors.
• Stock replenishment - ensuring our shelves remain as full as possible and products are in the right place at the right time for our customers.
• Working with the wider shop team to support when needed including checkout support, managing Click & Collect orders, fulfilling on-demand customer orders and more.
• Being proactive in helping to drive the commercial performance for the shop, offering ideas for continuous improvement to the operation.
• Reducing wastage by following product due diligence and markdowns to those reaching their sell by dates.
• Maintaining a safe and tidy working environment with general shopkeeping tasks.

Essential skills/experience you'll need

• Good people and leadership skills.
• Good understanding of retail and how to maximise commercial success.
• Experience of working in a customer facing role.
• Good stakeholder management skills when working with third parties and the wider Partnership.

Desirable skills/experience you may have

• Duty Manager Training (Internal Partners only).

Hours of Work: Varied hours of part time hours - 27 hours per week - Monday, Tuesday and Saturday from 08:00pm to 06:00am.

Pay: £14.58 Hourly.

Contract Type: Permanent.

Job Level: Partnership Level 10.

Where You'll Be Working: Southsea (Waitrose & Partners), Marmion Road, Southsea, Hampshire, PO5 2EJ.

Closing Date: July 22, 2026.

Pre employment Vetting

Some roles are subject to pre employment vetting, which may include DBS checks for successful candidates. If required, you will be informed and provided with information about vetting during the recruitment process. We encourage you to complete any vetting documents quickly to avoid delays. Any DBS checks required will be carried out by a third party registered body and financial probity checks may also be required for some roles.