Assistant Branch Manager - Castleford, United Kingdom - Jewson
Description
We have an exciting opportunity for an
Assistant Branch Manager to join our
Jewson team, based in
CastlefordYou will assist the Branch Manager in maximising profitability through building successful working relationships with internal and external customers, suppliers, and Colleagues, whilst ensuringthe branch operates in a safe manner and in line with all company policies and procedures.
What you do need is previous retail supervisory experience - which could be from any number of industries.
The key is communication - we're looking for someone with strong people skills, someone capable of conversing with both internal team members and customersalike.
Someone who is equally as happy working with customers on our trade counter as they are delegating store tasks in a morning meeting.
Here in Halifax we're only a small team, so it's essential for us to find the right person, someone personable who willcomplement 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.
Key Responsibilities:
- An 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
- Act as first line support to Branch Manager
- 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
What we are looking for in an Assistant Branch Manager:
Essential
- Relevant market and product knowledge
- Ability to lead, coach and develop a team
- Good financial and commercial awareness
- IT literate
- Ability to create and maintain successful customer relationships
- Resilient and confident to manage conflict
- Driving licence
- GCSEs (Or equivalent)
- Maths & English
- Post-GCSE qualification
- Relevant forklift licence
- People management experience
Requirements:
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.
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).
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