Essex

Assistant Tool Hire Manager

We are Travis Perkins Hire. With 250 locations nationwide, we’re proud to be part of the Travis Perkins family. Whether it’s tool, plant, and equipment hire, powered access, waste management, or welfare hire, we’ve got our customers covered at every stage of their project. Need advice, safety training, or a demo? We’re always ready to help. Hiring with us is simple — we tailor the price to suit our customers, offering a reliable delivery and collection service they can count on. Quick jobs or tough jobs, we get it sorted.

What you’ll be doing

In this role, you’ll be right alongside the Hire Branch Manager at our [XXX] Branch, making sure everything in the Hire department runs smoothly. It’s all about building great customer relationships, driving sales, and making sure our customers are getting the most out of what we offer. Safety will be your priority too—making sure the team spots and sorts any issues quickly. Plus, you’ll be keeping an eye on the key numbers, helping us hit our targets, and keeping the Hire business performing at its best!

What’s in It for You?

You’ll be part of the UK’s biggest builders’ merchant with endless opportunities to grow and develop! You’ll be part of a supportive, friendly team where your skills matter… With over 500 branches across the Travis Perkins business, there’s always room to learn, progress, and make a real impact. Plus, we offer great benefits and career development—come be a part of something big!

We offer:

  • Attractive annual salary

  • Performance-based bonus that rewards your hard work

  • Save-as-you-earn & Buy-as-you-earn schemes for smart financial growth

  • Generous contributory pension scheme to secure your future

  • Exclusive colleague discounts across a variety of Group businesses, including 20% off at Toolstation

  • Wellbeing support to keep you feeling your best

  • MyPerks discounts at top retailers, restaurants, and more!

Working hours: Monday-Friday, 7:30 am to 5:00 pm, and you’ll only work 2 Saturdays every 4 weeks (Saturdays are 8:00 am to 12:00 pm).

What you’ll be responsible for:

  • Driving Sales & Margins: Support the Hire Branch Manager to increase sales, improve margins, and enhance customer participation.

  • Operational Excellence: Ensure top-notch stock management, product availability, and a strong health and safety culture.

  • Deliver 5-Star Service: Help maintain high service and safety standards across all branch operations.

  • Branch Improvement: Assist in implementing improvement plans and addressing underperformance.

  • Data-Driven Decisions: Analyse data and KPIs to uncover opportunities, mitigate risks, and guide actions for improved outcomes.

  • Build Strong Partnerships: Support the Branch Hire Manager with customer profiling, competitive analysis, and supplier relations to foster solid partnerships.

  • Enhance Colleague Knowledge: Aid in the integration of Hire and develop colleagues’ knowledge and understanding of the offering, providing training and coaching as needed.

  • Ensure Safety: Ensure all team members call out, investigate, and mitigate safety issues promptly to maintain a safe working environment.

Who you are

Industry experience? Not essential. We’re looking for people with fresh ideas, different experiences, and new ways of thinking to help us grow and shake things up. If you’ve got the drive and passion to make a difference, we want to hear from you!

  • Planning & Organising: You stay ahead with smart planning and top-notch organisation.

  • Taking Initiative: You don’t wait around—you decide and take action to make things happen.

  • Getting Results: You deliver on your promises and exceed customer expectations every time.

  • Persuading & Influencing: You know how to persuade and influence others to get things done.

  • People Leadership: You lead, inspire, and motivate your team to reach their full potential.

  • Tech-Savvy: You’re comfortable using computers and digital tools to get things done.

  • Collaboration: You build strong partnerships and work with others to achieve shared goals.

How to Apply

Ready to be part of something big? Apply now and join a company that truly values its people. We can’t wait to hear from you!

We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to building a diverse team. No matter your background, we believe in giving everyone the opportunity to succeed.


If you’re offered the role, it will be a conditional offer, subject to a few background checks. These include a criminal record check (basic DBS), adverse financial check, media search & occupational history review. We do this to ensure we’re keeping both our business and customers safe, and we appreciate your understanding

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Warehouse Assistant

Play your part in giving every customer the kitchen of their dreams
Offering high quality kitchens and joinery products, Benchmarx is a major supplier to the UK building trade. Part of the Travis Perkins Group, we pride ourselves on being a great place to work. We’re a top employer that looks after our people and empowers them to look after our business and our loyal customer base.
Joining our family as a Warehouse Assistant, you’ll be responsible for maintaining a tidy, working warehouse in order to ensure the safety of colleagues and maximise the efficiency of service and sales to customers – ensuring adequate levels of quality merchandise are held in stock; loading, unloading and moving stock; and picking orders accurately.
We’re looking for the kind of individual who:  
        * Is happy using their initiative
        * Thrives on independence and responsibility  
        * Is good with people and great in a team
        * Can operate MHE equipment – or is happy to learn how to
What’s in it for you?
At Benchmarx, we have strong family values and believe in getting the right work/life balance, meaning you’ll only work during the week and 4 hours every other Saturday. We make sure that hard work is rewarded and as an inclusive, family environment we want every team member to be recognised for the work they do. 
We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that grows as you grow with the company:
        * Competitive performance related bonus
        * Save-as-you-earn scheme
        * Buy-as-you-earn scheme
        * Contributory pension scheme
        * Colleague discount across a variety of Group businesses including special discounts across our Trade Merchanting businesses
A bit about us
For 15 years Benchmarx have offered a high quality range of kitchens and joinery products backed up by excellent service.  But what really sets us apart is a company culture of being great people to work with, whether as colleagues or with our valued customers.  With over 150 branches UK wide, we are proud to be part of Travis Perkins.  
We’re driving to become a truly inclusive employer. We want everyone to be at their best and it’s our ambition that everyone within our Group feels safe, welcome and confident to be their authentic selves. 
You be you, it makes us, us.
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Yard Sales Assistant

Joining our friendly and hard working family as an Yard Sales Assistant, you’ll be on the front line dealing with our customers that come into our yard.  As part of the branch team, you will play a vital role in our continued success, providing a first class service.
What will I be doing?

No one day is the same as the next in TP branch life, but here are a few pointers:

  • Our success is built on strong relationships with our customers so it’s essential that you can help deliver the highest standards of service – the key thing is to be helpful and friendly at all times, you will likely get to know our customers on a first name basis.
  • You will be based outside, processing our customer orders, loading and unloading customer and company vehicles.
  • You will also unload our building products from supplier deliveries and accurately book them in the branch warehouse.
  • Experience of using a forklift is ideal, but don’t worry full training is provided
  • Safety is at the forefront of everything we do, your aim will be to ensure that our standards never slip, this means maintaining a tidy and safe working environment

What skills do you need?

This is a key customer facing role, you just need the ability to provide great customer service, we can teach you the rest.  

Does this sound like you?

We hope you can say ‘Yes’ to all of the characteristics below – they are in the DNA of all our fantastic Yard Sales Assistants.  Are you:

  • Someone that is physically active, as this role is located outside, it will involve lifting heavy building materials
  • Someone that has a friendly and outgoing personality who is happy to communicate face to face with customers and build strong relationships
  • Someone that is adaptable, resilient and tenacious with high levels of energy and drive.
  • Someone who thrives in a dynamic and fast paced environment
Being a Yard Sales Assistant in TP gives you a fantastic opportunity to excel and to continue to develop your career, if you choose.  As a new colleague you will be encouraged to enroll onto a TP development scheme – which are available to colleagues and managers at all levels of our business. How will you know you are doing a great job and developing your career? Simple. We will support you with a development plan, that embraces our values.
 
You’ll also receive £Competitive pay + Benefits (which includes an annual colleague bonus, contributory pension, private healthcare, life assurance, sharesave scheme, group wide colleague discounts across the Travis Perkins Group (including Toolstation).  Plus we have a number of online discounts at leading retailers from airport parking to theme parks to eating out and cinemas.  Our working hours also offer a great work life balance – most of our customers choose to enjoy their weekends and bank holidays which means you can too!
You may not know much about Travis Perkins, but if you look a bit closer you might be surprised, despite our size, we have the values of a family run business and the mindset and ambition of a forward thinking Company.  We pride ourselves on being a great place to work that’s why we have been voted one of the UK’s Top Employers every year since 2010. We offer our employees access to extensive career opportunities across our 5 leading businesses.  We operate out of more than 1400 outlets nationwide and have over 20,000 colleagues.  
We’re driving to become a truly inclusive employer. We want everyone to be at their best and it’s our ambition that everyone within our Group feels safe, welcome and confident to be their authentic selves. 

You be you, it makes us, us.
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Assistant Branch Manager

Are you looking for the next step in your career? Are you an effective communicator with a strong customer service background? We are currently looking for an Assistant Branch Manager to join our team.
What you’ll do

You’ll support the Branch Manager with the day to day running of the branch. Learning all processes, you will be confident in coaching your team and managing the branch in the absence of the manager to ensure that all targets are met.
Organisation is key in this role – with a hands-on approach, you’ll be happy to get involved with all aspects of the branch whether that’s supporting with CAD designs or deliveries in our warehouse, or just making sure that we are providing the best service possible for our customers.
We are a trade focused business, so a large part of your day will involve working directly with the customers and creating a personalised experience. Alongside your team, you’ll be creating and maintaining relationships with local tradesmen, meaning it’ll be easier to increase profits and maximise sales.
Is this you?

You will either have experience of managing a team or have a strong customer service background with a desire to take the next step in your career. Whatever your background, we’ll support your development and offer you the opportunity to make the role your own. You don’t need industry experience we just want people that are passionate about joining our business! Having a Full UK Drivers licence is essential for this role as you will be required to travel.
What’s in it for you?

At Benchmarx, we have strong family values and believe in getting the right work/life balance, meaning you’ll only work during the week and 4 hours every other Saturday. We make sure that hard work is rewarded and as an inclusive, family environment we want every team member to be recognised for the work they do. 
We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that grows as you grow with the company:
        * Save-as-you-earn scheme
        * Buy-as-you-earn scheme
        * Contributory pension scheme
        * Colleague discount across a variety of Group businesses including special discounts across our Trade Merchanting businesses
A bit about us

For 15 years Benchmarx have offered a high quality range of kitchens and joinery products backed up by excellent service.  But what really sets us apart is a company culture of being great people to work with, whether as colleagues or with our valued customers.  With over 150 branches UK wide, we are proud to be part of Travis Perkins.  
We’re driving to become a truly inclusive employer. We want everyone to be at their best and it’s our ambition that everyone within our Group feels safe, welcome and confident to be their authentic selves. 


You be you, it makes us, us.
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Hire Manager

Hire Manager – Colchester (Lead, Motivate, Inspire)

Who we are

We’re Travis Perkins Hire. With 250 locations nationwide, we’re proud to be part of the Travis Perkins family. Whether it’s tool, plant, and equipment hire, powered access, waste management, or welfare hire, we’ve got our customers covered at every stage of their project. Need advice, safety training, or a demo? We’re always ready to help. Hiring with us is simple — we tailor the price to suit our customers, offering a reliable delivery and collection service they can count on. Quick jobs or tough jobs, we get it sorted.

What you’ll be doing

As the new Hire Manager at the Colchester branch, you’ll be at the forefront of driving success and hitting key targets! This is an exciting opportunity for a sales-driven, customer-focused leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment. If you’re ready to take charge and make an impact, this role is for you.

Your main responsibility will be to develop and execute a sales action plan that exceeds budget performance through a proactive sales approach. You’ll play a key role in supporting the integration of Hire into the wider Travis Perkins branch, enhancing the knowledge and understanding of the services available to our Branch colleagues. This includes providing training and coaching where needed, in close collaboration with the Travis Perkins Branch Manager.

What’s in It for You?

You’ll be part of the UK’s biggest builders’ merchant with endless opportunities to grow and develop! You’ll be part of a supportive, friendly team where your skills matter… With over 500 branches across the Travis Perkins business, there’s always room to learn, progress, and make a real impact. Plus, we offer great benefits and career development—come be a part of something big!

We offer:

  • Attractive annual salary

  • Performance-based bonus that rewards your hard work

  • Save-as-you-earn & Buy-as-you-earn schemes for smart financial growth

  • Generous contributory pension scheme to secure your future

  • Exclusive colleague discounts across a variety of Group businesses, including 20% off at Toolstation

  • Wellbeing support to keep you feeling your best

  • MyPerks discounts at top retailers, restaurants, and more!

Working hours: Monday-Friday, 7:30 am to 5:00 pm, and you’ll only work 2 Saturdays every 4 weeks (Saturdays are 8:00 am to 12:00 pm).

What you’ll be responsible for:

  • Crushing Sales Goals: Develop a winning sales action plan and drive results beyond the targets. Proactive is your middle name.

  • Coaching & Training: Work with the Branch Manager to level up the team on everything tool hire. Share your knowledge, get everyone on point.

  • Keeping Things Running: Make sure all tools and equipment are in tip-top shape, safe, and ready for action. Safety first, always.

  • Stock Control: Balance stock levels to meet demand—ensuring the right gear’s available without ever letting it gather dust.

  • Leading the Team: Oversee the day-to-day of your Hire team. Train, supervise, and motivate for top-notch performance.

  • Top Service: Be the go-to for customer queries. Offer smart solutions and upsell like a pro to boost sales.

  • Communication: Keep the team and branch in the loop with daily toolbox talks and quick, effective communication.

Who you are

  • Experience: If you’ve worked in tool hire, plant hire, or a leadership role before, great! But if you’ve got sales or customer service experience, we’re still keen.

  • Leadership Vibes: You know how to lead a team, inspire, and keep things moving.

  • Safety Focused: You’ll make sure everything’s safe and sound—whether it’s equipment or the work environment.

  • Proactive: You thrive in a fast-paced environment and always find a way to improve things.

How to Apply

Ready to be part of something big? Apply now and join a company that truly values its people. We can’t wait to hear from you!

We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to building a diverse team. No matter your background, we believe in giving everyone the opportunity to succeed.

If you’re offered the role, it will be a conditional offer, subject to a few background checks. These include a criminal record check (basic DBS), adverse financial check, media search & occupational history review. We do this to ensure we’re keeping both our business and customers safe, and we appreciate your understanding

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