Branch Cook, Supermarket Assistant

About the role

As a Supermarket Assistant Branch Cook, you’ll be working in our back‑of‑house of one of our shops in the Partner Dining Room, providing hot and cold food for Partners to enjoy during their break times. When not working in the kitchen, you’ll support the wider shop floor team as a Supermarket Assistant, providing the distinct service and passion for food that our competitors can’t compete with.

Key Responsibilities

• Run the overall kitchen smoothly with support and direction from the management team.
• Maintain a clean, tidy, and safe kitchen environment.
• Ensure portion control, preparation, storage methods and due diligence to avoid food wastage and protect profits.
• Adhere to high food hygiene standards.
• Help provide great service to customers and support with a variety of shop‑keeping related tasks.
• Stock replenishment and ensure shelves remain full and products are in the right place at the right time.
• Fulfilling online customer orders ready for drivers to deliver directly to customers’ doors.
• Reduce wastage by following product due diligence and markdowns for items nearing sell‑by dates.
• Work with the wider shop team to support when needed, including checkout support, managing Click & Collect orders, fulfilling on‑demand customer orders, and more.
• Maintain a safe and tidy working environment with general shop‑keeping tasks.

Essential Skills / Experience

• Experience of working as a cook in a catering or hospitality environment.
• Passionate about food and serving a varied and nutritious menu.
• Customer‑focused with the ability to engage partners with the food on offer.
• Demonstrate commercial awareness, driving sales within the partner dining room while controlling costs and wastage.
• Flexible and adaptable to work between kitchen and shop floor as required.

Desirable Skills / Experience

• City & Guilds 706 1 and 2 or NVQ equivalent.
• Food Hygiene Certificate Level 2.

Important Points to Note

Some of our roles are subject to pre‑employment vetting (including DBS checks for successful candidates). Required vetting will be carried out by a third‑party registered body and financial probity checks may also be required for some roles. We occasionally close vacancies early in the event we receive a high volume of applications.

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