Posting End Date:
January 1, 2025
Join John Lewis or Waitrose today
If you've ever stepped through the doors of a John Lewis or Waitrose shop, shopped online, or seen any of our adverts, you'll know there's something unique about us.
That unique proposition is our Partners. As co-owners they have a say in our business and receive a share of the profits, so they put time and effort into making it work. Our Partners are the reason we're the success we are. They're our secret sauce; the opportunity for us to differentiate.
Job Summary:
You’ll be customer centric, supporting partners in delivering an efficient e-commerce operation and an excellent customer experience. Working closely with your people managers, you’ll create a proactive working environment, with a culture of continuous learning.
Job Description:
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.
Due to the delivery/handling/selling of age restricted items, applicants must be 18 years or over to apply.
This role is key to the e-commerce function in shops. Attention to detail is a must, as you will be responsible for ensuring a safe and legal operation. You will be a role model for customer service, using your coaching skills to support partners in delivering an excellent experience, providing timely feedback to aid in their personal development.
You will be focused on ensuring customers get the items they want on time through overseeing the picking operation, be the first point of contact for customer queries in store, using your initiative to resolve queries and put the customer at the centre of decision making.
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 so much more.
Please consider the following when making your application:
- We occasionally close vacancies early in the event we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore, we recommend you apply early
- Print off the job description now if you require it
Pay:
£12.47 Hourly
Scheduled Weekly hours:
37.5
Worker Type:
Permanent Partner
Job Level:
Partnership Level 10
Hours of Work:
Varied hours of full-time work 37.5 across seven days to include early starts, late finishes, evenings and weekends between the hours of 05:00 - 13:00.
At the John Lewis Partnership, we embrace our differences. We want you to be you. Because, well, we know you're at your best when you're free to be yourself.
Being a truly inclusive employer to us means creating an environment which celebrates your contribution, regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, social background, religion or belief. It's why we've set our own aim to become the UK’s most inclusive business - for our Partners (employees) and our customers.
We firmly believe that our future success lies in diversity of thought from all Partners and it's integral in our mission to build a happier world. 🌍 💚
We welcome applications from everyone interested in working for us. And, once you're a Partner, your differences will make all the difference.
Find out more about D&I in the Partnership here.
We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where it is possible to do so. Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview.
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