# Catering Team Leader

**Company**: John Lewis Partnership
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: permanent
**Salary**: £32,700 - £51,200 per annum
**Category**: Hospitality
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

We are seeking a Catering Team Leader to join our team at John Lewis Partnership in London Pimlico. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading and supervising a busy catering brigade to deliver market-leading customer service.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Operational Leadership: Leading and supervising a busy catering brigade to deliver market-leading customer service.

- Service Excellence: Ensuring the seamless delivery of the Partner Dining Room and function services, maintaining impeccable standards of product presentation and cleanliness.

- Commercial Management: Driving sales and managing food and sundry costs.

- Administrative Oversight: Taking ownership of catering admin, including stock control, wastage recording, and staffing requirements.

- Compliance & Risk: Supervising and delivering all due diligence checks.

**Benefits of the Partnership and the role:**

- Full uniform supplied including safety shoes

- Free Meals on Duty depending on hours worked

- Free parking on site

- Partnership discount in store and online

- Discounted cinema tickets & VIP suites

- Discounted rates on holidays at the John Lewis Partnerships hotels

- Excellent work life balance, including focus on well being and flexible working

**Essential Skills/Experience:**

- Supervisory Experience: A minimum of 3 year's experience in supervising catering teams.

- Food Expertise: Experience working with all food types and a genuine passion for hospitality.

- Commercial Awareness: A strong understanding of how to manage sales, stock, and wastage.

- Leadership Qualities: The ability to lead by example, foster trust within a team.

- IT Literacy: Proficient computer skills to manage administrative tasks and ordering systems.

**Desirable Skills/Experience:**

- Experience working in a high-pressure, customer-facing selling or service environment.

- Previous experience in a dedicated administration or logistics function.

**Salary:** £32,700 - £51,200 per annum

## Skills

### Required
- Supervisory Experience
- Food Expertise
- Commercial Awareness
- Leadership Qualities
- IT Literacy

### Nice to have
- Experience working in a high-pressure, customer-facing selling or service environment
- Previous experience in a dedicated administration or logistics function

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