Café & Service Counters, Supermarket Assistant, Jersey

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Key Responsibilities

1. You'll take responsibility for your own food counter ensuring the highest presentation and hygiene standards at all times.
2. Staying on top of stock levels, ensuring the products our customers love are there when needed.
3. Taking great care while working with open food and ensure all due diligence and health & safety protocols are followed. Helping to reduce food wastage.
4. Maintaining your knowledge of new products and have a good understanding of Waitrose's food values (e.g. animal welfare).
5. Supporting the wider shop team when required with general shopkeeping tasks.

Essential Skills/Experience You'll Need

1. Communication skills to enable you to work effectively as part of a team and with our customers.

Desirable Skills/Experience You May Have

1. Experience of working in a customer facing role is welcomed.
2. Experience of working in a catering / hospitality environment.
3. Up to date knowledge and strong interest in food and drink trends.
4. Flexible approach to ensure the support of the whole branch.

We request that candidates only apply for this position if you can fully commit to the advertised working hours, the full term of the contract and can also provide valid documentation of entitlement to work on the Channel Islands as issued by the States Offices or we will be unable to proceed with your application.

As a Partner on our service counters, you'll have the perfect opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge and passion for food while feeling proud of how it is ethically sourced and recommend recipes for customers to try. You'll actively be bringing our ethos - passionate Partners serving food lovers - to life.

You'll use your enthusiasm and friendliness to build lasting relationships with your customers. You'll make all the difference to the impression they 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.

Hours of work are 37.5 per week to include early starts, late finishes and alternate weekend working.