Staffordshire
HGV Driver
Assistant Branch Manager
Assistant Branch Manager
Working Hours: Monday to Friday (7am-4:30pm), Alternate Saturday Mornings (8-12)
We are Travis Perkins.
Leading our industry for over two centuries, we’ve built our early foundations into a nationwide business that gives customers the products they need, with the smile they deserve. We’re proudly part of Travis Perkins plc., the UK’s largest distributor of building materials, providing unrivalled customer service from over 1,400 branches across the UK.
What’s it like to be an Assistant Branch Manager?
As the Assistant Branch Manager at Travis Perkins, you’ll support the day-to-day of branch life, leading your colleagues to achieve excellence in everything they do.
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You’ll have a strong sales presence, to drive daily sales activity and achieve targets to boost the profitability of your branch.
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As part of the branch management team, you’ll drive standards across the branch and create fantastic customer relationships at every opportunity.
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You’ll be a confident people leader, capable of motivating and coaching your colleagues as they work to achieve their high potential.
Do you have what it takes?
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You’ve got relevant experience and can motivate and develop teams to succeed.
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You hold strong people skills, key for building strong relationships and negotiating successfully.
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You’re highly organised and can prioritize tasks with attention to detail.
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You champion a non-negotiable safety culture and prioritize the wellbeing of your team and customers.
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You’re dedicated to providing exceptional customer service and maintaining high standards at all times.
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You’re an energetic team player, eager to contribute, and focused on hitting goals.
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Relevant industry experience will help you to embed quickly into this role. However, if you’re a confident and successful sales leader in a different, customer-centric industry, we’d love to hear from you!
What’s in it for you?
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Make your job a journey – opportunities for career growth in a thriving business, including leadership training and development programs.
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Competitive salary – with bonus earning potential too! We achieve together, so we earn together too.
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Enhanced pension scheme – prepare for your future by matching your pension contributions up to 10%. (Conditions apply)
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Group-wide discounts – 20% off at Toolstation, with wider savings across the group.
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Sociable hours – Protect your “me time” with sociable daytime hours (no evenings!).
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Fit for success – Health & Wellbeing support, including DigiCare, Cycle to Work, and access to our Wellbeing Centre
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ShareSave – own our collective success by investing with our group shares.
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Online shopping discounts – treat yourself more often, thanks to discounts across a range of leading retailers… from everyday essentials, to airport parking and travel!
What about our culture?
Every day, we work together, giving our best to be the best. By sharing our knowledge we don’t just support our colleagues, we create an unrivalled customer experience that shows them that we really care.
We’re driven to remain a truly inclusive employer. Please let your recruiter know how we can help you to thrive as your authentic self. You be you, it makes us, us.
We reserve the right to cancel or close this vacancy without notice or reason, and prior to the expiry date.
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Kitchen Sales Designer Apprenticeship
Are you sales driven or have an interest in sales, along with a creative flair? Do you like working with a variety of customers and building relationships? We have the perfect opportunity for an ambitious individual to kick start a new career.
Benchmarx Kitchens and Joinery have an opportunity for you to join our family as a Kitchen Design Apprentice. Previous industry knowledge is not essential for this role, all we look for is an individual who is customer focused and the passion to take ownership of your own success. In return, we will provide the training and support you need to become an expert Kitchen Designer, and help our trade customers turn individual living spaces into unique, kitchen realities.
As a Kitchen Design Apprentice, you’ll be at the heart of the business playing a vital role in delivering sales & profit towards the success of the branch. You will work closely with customers listening carefully to what they want and understand their needs. You’ll visit customers’ homes or building sites, draw up inspirational designs on CAD and present them to the customers. Whilst offering competitive quotes, you will use your negotiation skills to maximise sales for further growth on margin. Being a target driven role, you will manage and seek out your own sales leads.
Hours of work: Our working hours also offer a great work life balance – your working week will be Monday to Friday 7.30am – 5.00pm and every other Saturday morning 8.00am-12.00pm
Salary: Circa £20,000 dependant on experience + 22 days holiday plus bank holidays + discounts and access to health and well being advice and support.
Location: This position will be based within your host branch but you will be required to spend time within other branches within your region. This will require the successful candidate to have a full UK driving licence, and be flexible to travel to different locations
How will we support you?
The 12 month apprenticeship programme teaches you to be a great kitchen designer within our business, pulling together CAD training, inspiration design and product knowledge training to provide our valued customers with the best possible service. Upon completion, you will be rewarded with a Level 3 Apprenticeship in Furniture Design.
Our Apprenticeships are focused on your development and factor study time into your working week, so you can achieve your qualification without affecting your work-life balance. We provide you with a fantastic support network through; 1:1 coaching, mentoring and technical and skills training to enable you to progress your career with us. Along the way, our experienced team will provide you with plenty of support to ensure you get the best out of your Apprenticeship. And it doesn’t have to end here, as we have a suite of Apprenticeship programmes that can support you to continue to develop your career with us, all the way up to the Boardroom.
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
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.
Harlow Timber Group – Production Operative
HGV Driver
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.
Regional HGV Driver Class 2
HGV Driver – Class 2 – Regional Driver, Birmingham area
No evenings or overnights!
Drive Your HGV Career Forward with Travis Perkins – HIAB training provided!
The role covers these branches:
Minworth (Parent branch / induction)
Tamworth
Cannock
Lichfield
Central
What’s in it for you?
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Sociable hours: No overnight stays or late evenings, giving you an excellent work/life balance.
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Full-time, permanent hours: Employed directly with Travis Perkins.
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Competitive salary: Plus bonus earning potential that YOU control by driving safely and efficiently (total potential bonus £2,700 per year).
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Periodic CPC training: Fully funded and arranged by the branch.
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Staff discounts: Enjoy 20% off at Toolstation and across our Group businesses.
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22 days holiday + bank holidays: Plus yearly pay reviews to recognize and reward commitment.
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Share schemes: Potential profit from selling shares of the business.
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Company pension: Flexible contribution options.
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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
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Requirements: You’ll need a Class 2 driving license, up-to-date CPC records, and have held a Category B license for 12+ months.
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HIAB experience: Don’t have HIAB experience? No problem! We’ll fund your HIAB training.
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Customer-focused: You’ll be confident building and developing relationships with customers.
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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.
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