Waitrose Job Vacancies

Waitrose is one of the leading food retailers in United Kingdom. It has 37,000 employees and they still need more people to fill Waitrose job vacancies. Waitrose started their small grocery in 1904 at 263 Acton Hill, West London and now there are 228 branches (June 2010) scattered in England, Scotland and Wales.

Waitrose is still aiming for more branches, 400 branches by 2017. It is founded by Wallace Waite, David Taylor and Arthur Rose. Waitrose is popular to middle classes because of their reputation of being expensive but Waitrose is delivering high quality product and in fact they have receive Royal Warrant from Queen Elizabeth II.

People love to work in Waitrose Company because employees of Waitrose are considered as partners; they are entitled to receive a partnership bonus which is normally 10-20% of partner’s yearly salary. Employees also enjoy other privilege such as orange discount which gives them discount on Waitrose store and John Lewis Department store. There are different employee’s levels in Waitrose store; it may vary if they work in core branches or convenience branches. Core branches employee levels are branch manager, department manager, section manager, assistant section manager, third hand, specialist, sponsor and partner. Convenience branches employee levels are store manager, assistant store manager, team leader and partner. Waitrose also offer management courses like Graduate Scheme, Retail Management Training Scheme, Limited Placement Scheme and Head Office Industrial Placement Scheme. Management, placement and training scheme may last for six to eight weeks or twelve to eighteen months depending on the scheme that you have applied for.

Branch managers are responsible in implementing brand strategy and supervising numerous partners under his guidance. Good communication skills and leadership skills are needed on this position because they need to manage the business, both commercial and operation. Department managers are responsible to his department and he or she must ensure that his or her team is doing their job. Applicant must have passion for retail and work experience in managing team. Section Managers are responsible in supervising supermarket operations such as creating displays, ordering stock and delivering good service to customer. Applicant must have good communication skills, retailing skills and problem solving skills. Assistant Managers work is to support their managers in meeting the goal and ensuring that partners are doing their work and meeting the quotas.

Product Specialist is one of the exciting jobs in Waitrose because you will set up different activities that will promote Waitrose products like store tasting sections, food fairs and county shows. He or she is responsible also in training colleagues in customer service, product knowledge and technical skills. Supermarket Assistant work is to assist in supermarket activities, customers and products. Applicant must be willing to work as a team and flexible regarding schedule.

If you are not interested to work in store, there are job vacancies in head office. There are job opportunities in journalism, property service, catering, hotels and leisure, product development, retail operations, accounts, commercial, e-commerce, marketing, personnel, food technology, distribution, sales, buying and IT department.

Waitrose Company offer job opportunities to all levels and ensuring that they are giving opportunity to everyone. There are entry level positions, full time job and even part time job. If you are interested to apply in Waitrose job vacancies, just visit the John Lewis Partnership website, there is a career page where you can search for job openings. There is a search engine which you can use to simplify your search, there are drop down menu where you can choose your preferred area of business, region location and hours. Areas of business are Waitrose distribution, supermarkets, farming, head office and building and services. You can register and create an account to check your online application status.

Most of the job vacancies in Waitrose are customer and people oriented because they are committed to assist and help their customers to make their shopping easy. They are offering different services that you may try such as packing and checkouts; carry to car service, ordering online, and toilets with wheelchair access, accompanied shopping, service call facility at their petrol stations, customer collection point and free minicab phone. Employee must be able to attend customers need.

Employees of Waitrose will have competitive salary, benefit package and bonuses. Waitrose offer pension scheme, discount, paid holiday, life assurance, subsidized dining facilities, holiday and leisure facilities, partners in sports, clubs and societies, ticket subsidies, career development, education subsidies, extended leave and voluntary benefits and discounted deals.