Assistant Branch Manager - Mirfield, United Kingdom - Jewson

Jewson

Verified Company

Mirfield, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Role
Come and join out Jewsons Mirfield team. Working with an enthusiastic and charismatic bunch, We are now looking to recruit our next assistant branch manager.

This is advertised as up to 44.5 hours with flexibility negotiating the right hours for you.

We have an exciting opportunity for an
Assistant Branch Manager to join our
Jewson team in Mirfield WF14.

You will assist the Branch Manager in maximising profitability through building successful working relationships with internal and external customers, suppliers, and Colleagues, whilst ensuring the branch operatesin a safe manner and in line with all company policies and procedures.

Deputise for Branch Manager as required.

The key is communication - we're looking for someone with strong people skills, someone capable of conversing with both internal team members and customers alike.

Someone who is equally as happy working with customers on our trade counter as they are delegatingstore tasks in a morning meeting.

Here in Hull We are a large team, so it's essential for us to find the right person, someone personable who will complement the branch.

At Jewson we pride ourselves on our ability to provide a great welcome to our customers, being proactive when helping them, being trusted, and recognised for our 'customer first' approach.

If you enjoy working with people and you think you could help ourcustomers feel welcome, then we would love to hear from you

Requirements:

help our customers feel welcome, then we would love to hear from you

Key Responsibilities:

Key Support for the Branch Manager

- excellent customer experience

Sales and profit targets
Local sales plan
Strong effective relationships with customers and suppliers
Understand local market issues and communicate to Manager to support sales growth plans
Develop new customer accounts and lapsed accounts
Achieve Safety and Wellbeing culture and targets
Embed Saint-Gobain Principles of Conduct and Action into working environment and behavioural standards
Identify individual and team training needs
Create a performance culture and high colleague engagement
Communicate Company plans, goals and individual objectives.
Support the team with daytoday queries
Delivery of KPIs
Customer service standards
Safeguard Company's stock, money and all other Company
Participate in stock management process
Ensure delivery of customer orders is optimised to achieve the highest level of return on sales vs cost
Working in a high profit branch turning over Half a million each week with 26 staff members

Additional Requirements
Essential

Relevant market and product knowledge
Ability to lead, coach and develop a team
Good financial and commercial awareness
IT literate ability to use all Microsoft packages with ease and Microsoft office.
Ability to create and maintain successful customer relationships
Resilient and confident to manage conflict
Driving licence

Desirable

Previous merchant experience
Management Background

GCSEs (Or equivalent)

Maths & English
Post-GCSE qualification
Relevant forklift licence
People management experience

About Us

Are Jewson and Saint-Gobain an Inclusive employer?
We're working hard to be, and we're keen to hire talented people regardless of their background, abilities, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender, national origin, taste in music, fashion sense or anything else that makes you, you

We understand that a diverse workplace is not only a more enjoyable place to be, but also facilitates better decision making and innovation.

So, whoever you are, and whichever Saint-Gobain business you join, you can be sure of a warm welcome with us.

And what about flexibility?

The world of work is changing, and at Saint-Gobain we are open to new ways of working in order to attract talented people to our business.

We understand that everyone has different needs and commitments.

Therefore, we are very open to discuss any flexiblerequirement or need that you may have for this role (this could be flexible hours, a job share, part time, to name a few).

We can't guarantee to meet all requests for flexibility when we are recruiting, but we promise to listen.