HGV Driver – Class 2 – REGIONAL HGV DRIVER, Northamptonshire area

No evenings or overnights!

Drive Your HGV Career Forward with Travis Perkins – HIAB training provided!

What’s in it for you?

• Sociable hours: No overnight stays or late evenings, giving you an excellent work/life balance.

• Full-time, permanent hours: Employed directly with Travis Perkins.

• Competitive salary: Plus bonus earning potential that YOU control by driving safely and efficiently (total potential bonus £2,700 per year).

• Periodic CPC training: Fully funded and arranged by the branch.

• Staff discounts: Enjoy 20% off at Toolstation and across our Group businesses.

• 22 days holiday + bank holidays: Plus yearly pay reviews to recognize and reward commitment.

• Share schemes: Potential profit from selling shares of the business.

• Company pension: Flexible contribution options.

• Ongoing development: We’re committed to your career progression, with many of our managers and directors having started in similar roles.

What will you be doing?
You’ll be delivering building materials from our branch to local customers, making sure everything’s safe and sound. You’ll load up your vehicle with the HIAB, double-check it’s all properly packed and legal, and then hit the road. As our face on the road, you’ll keep it professional while making around 14 drops a day, then head back to the branch to reload when needed.

Who you are

• Requirements: You’ll need a Class 2 driving license, up-to-date CPC records, and have held a Category B license for 12+ months.

• HIAB experience: Don’t have HIAB experience? No problem! We’ll fund your HIAB training.

• Customer-focused: You’ll be confident building and developing relationships with customers.

• Safety-focused: You’ll prioritize safety in every aspect of your work, completing tasks in a professional manner.

Who we are
We’re the UK’s biggest builders’ merchant! With over 500 branches, we supply everything from timber and bricks to kitchens, tools, and equipment. We’re a friendly, welcoming team offering great career opportunities and the chance to learn new skills. Whether you’re in the office, serving customers, or making deliveries, there’s a place for you to grow. Come see why we’re the go-to for builders—join us today!

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.

Are you an experienced sales leader with a passion for driving profitable growth, developing people, and managing high value national accounts? This is a senior opportunity to lead a high performing National Sales Office for Travis Perkins.

As Sales Office Manager, you will take full ownership of National Sales Office performance, acting as a point of contact for key customers while leading, coaching, and inspiring a strong team to deliver against ambitious commercial targets.

The role

You will be responsible for developing and maintaining profitable National Sales Office relationships, negotiating and servicing national and trading agreements, and ensuring operational excellence across the National Sales Office. Working closely with group national customers, preferred suppliers, procurement, digital, credit, and regional sales teams, you will balance strategic leadership with hands-on commercial delivery.

Key responsibilities include:

• Delivering monthly and annual sales and profit targets in line with AOP

• Leading and developing a team of around 17 colleagues, supporting engagement, performance, and succession planning

• Managing national quotations and supply agreements from individual orders through to major contracts

• Strengthening relationships with an established portfolio of Group National customers while identifying new growth opportunities

• Working closely with preferred suppliers and internal procurement to maximise net trading arrangements

• Driving new, innovative trading solutions, products, and ways of working

• Owning KPI reporting and using data to improve performance and service

• Coordinating special projects and complex customer requirements across the wider business

• Supporting the development of electronic trading and new digital systems

• Maintaining strong communication across Group Nationals, branches, sales offices, and credit teams

This is a role for a commercially astute leader who understands how to translate strategy into results while keeping customers and colleagues at the centre of everything you do 

About you

You will be a confident sales professional with proven management experience and a strong commercial mindset. You are comfortable negotiating at a senior level, interpreting financial data, and leading teams to exceed targets.

You will bring:

• Experience in a sales focused role, ideally with previous management responsibility

• A strong track record of delivering sales growth and profit

• Excellent negotiation, communication, and interpersonal skills

• Natural leadership and the ability to motivate and develop others

• High levels of organisation, planning, and commercial awareness

• Customer focused thinking combined with strategic vision

• Strong IT literacy and confidence working with data and KPIs

• Experience within the building products or supplier environment is advantageous, but not essential for the right individual looking to make their mark at national level 

What’s in it for you

• Competitive basic salary with bonus earning potential

• Car allowance

• Responsibility for a £75m budget within a nationally recognised business

• Opportunity to lead and shape a key function with real influence

• Career development within a sizeable group operation

• A collaborative, high impact role where your ideas and leadership will be visible

If you are an ambitious, driven sales leader ready to take ownership of a critical national operation and lead a team toward sustained commercial success, we would love to hear from you.

Space Planner – Travis Perkins, Northampton

We are Travis Perkins plc. With over two centuries of experience leading our industry, we’ve developed our early foundations into a diverse network of specialist brands, providing an unrivalled level of customer service from over 1,400 branches across the UK. We are looking for an experienced Space Planner to join our team in Northampton. 

What you will do

As a Space Planner, you will be responsible for planning new branches, refits and traffic schemes for our group businesses.

• Produce high quality autocad drawings across multiple briefs and projects.
• Improve safety by designing the risk out with layout and line marking, including traffic management and implementing the high level of safety standards we set.
• Drive sales and profit per sq ft by optimising the best utilisation of space from a new build feasibility to racking/storage solutions.
• Improve the customer experience and speed of service through understanding the customer journey and deploying the business design principles.
• Work closely with all business units including hire, commercial & merchandising functions to ensure that all opportunities and trends are factored in.
• Survey of existing and new estates to build up the CAD library to include existing racking and product placements in warehouses, shops & yards.
• Working with the construction and facilities project managers to reduce costs through design without compromising on operational needs of the business.
• Work with our planning consultants to gain a successful planning consent for projects, some planning drawings will be required, also applying for your own planning apps for minor projects. 

Who you are

• Autocad experience, mid to high level CAD knowledge required.
• Construction design or space planning background.
• Strong & confident verbal communication and presentation skills.
• Building material and shop fitting knowledge.
• Able to understand the customer journey to make their visit easy and practical.
• Team player who can work under pressure and tight deadlines.
• Data analysis skills to understand stock requirements.

We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that grows as you grow with the company:

• Competitive bonus
• Company car
• Save-as-you-earn scheme
• Buy-as-you-earn scheme
• Contributory pension scheme
• Colleague discount across a variety of Group businesses

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. Lay the foundations of your Travis Perkins plc career today – click apply below to start your journey.

We reserve the right to remove this vacancy without notice or reason. Candidates may be screened and interviewed on an ad-hoc basis and not necessarily after the closing date published.

Seeking a new and exciting opportunity in HR?

Here at Travis Perkins plc, we have an exciting and varied HR Administrator opportunity within our HR Shared Service Admin team, based in Duston – Northamptonshire. 

This role will be working from our Northampton office 5 days a week during your probationary period, progressing to a hybrid working pattern. 

Key Accountabilities:

• Working in partnership with our service providers, you will ensure the efficient, timely, and precise delivery of outsourced HR administrative services for our Head Office and Merchant businesses
• Process remaining in-house HR administrative tasks for our Head Office and Merchanting businesses, ensuring an efficient, timely, and accurate service
• Proactively support line managers through the pre-hire process. This includes tracking progress, chasing approvals, supporting contractual queries, assisting with Right to Work document uploads, and ensuring the new starter is made an ‘active’ employee on their first day
• Provide proactive support to new starters (pre-hires) with the system aspects of their onboarding, including contract acceptance, adding personal details, and resetting passwords when necessary
• Provide ad-hoc (holiday/absence cover) administrative support to the Employee Relations and Employment Legal Services departments.

We are looking for someone who is:

• Driven, enthusiastic, and passionate about HR
• Highly professional, detail-oriented, and committed to a high degree of accuracy and confidentiality
• Experienced in a fast-paced environment and capable of demonstrating a proactive approach, using initiative to get things done
• An excellent communicator, both written and verbal, with the confidence to build relationships at all levels
• Friendly, approachable, and strongly customer-focused
• A great team player, yet confident and able to work independently.

What’s in it for you?

You’ll be supported by some of the best training and development in the industry. Our impressive internal succession programme means, whatever it is you do with us,  it will be easy for you to learn, grow and develop across the Travis Perkins Group. 

We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that grows as you grow with the company:

• Business performance related bonus
• Contributory pension scheme
• Colleague discount and a platform of discounts and offers with over 1,000 retailers
• Life insurance
• A range of other voluntary and company funded benefits including; Employee Assistance Programme, a financial wellbeing app and legal and mortgage advice
• Save-as-you-earn scheme
• Buy-as-you-earn scheme

A bit about us

As the largest distributor of building materials in the UK, Travis Perkins has been helping to build Britain for over 200 years.

With over 5 businesses, 19,000 colleagues and more than 1,200 branches, stores and sites around the UK we believe we have the best people and the best place to work. Everyone works hard together to deliver results, but most importantly, have some fun along the way! 

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!