Duties and Responsibilities:

At the John Lewis Partnership we pride ourselves in providing excellent customer service. We'll rely on you to arm our catering Partners with the key skills they need to provide our customers with a great hospitality experience.

You'll do this by enhancing knowledge, inventing ways of delivering training and passing on your expertise of food preparation.

As a Food Coordinator and Coach you will deliver a market leading customer experience whilst achieving sales, wastage and customer service targets. To assure the end to end ordering process and to support the Section Managers in ensuring that relevant food safety compliance and administrative requirements are achieved.

Job Requirements:
You'll be passionate about service and food, showing desire and drive to continue to learn and develop, in order to better support your team.

Alongside coaching your Partners you'll support your Section Manager by being involved in administrative duties including ordering and ensuring that relevant food safety compliance has been adhered to.

Required essential experience skills and qualifications:
-Food Safety Level 1 (Must complete within the first week).
-Food Safety Level 2 (Must complete within 3 months).
-Previous employment in a catering environment.
-Previous kitchen experience.
-Previous training / coaching experience.

Desirable experience skills and qualifications:
-Food Safety Level 3.
-Customer facing selling or service environment.
-Administration.
-Computer literate.

Additional Information:

We have a number of different ways to work flexibly so at your interview feel free to talk about what flexibility means to you. There are no guarantees, however, it may open the door to not only a new role but a new way of working.

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.

We request that candidates only apply for this position if you can fully commit to the advertised working hours and the full term of the contract, or we will be unable to proceed with your application.

Please consider the following when making your application:
- This role is subject to the following pre-employment screening: 2 year reference check.
- 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.
- Ensure you have an up-to-date CV.