Jewson Assistant Branch Manager

Recruiter
Confidential
Location
Northampton
Salary
Competitive
Posted
11 Jun 2021
Closes
12 Jun 2021
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
The Role

We have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Branch Manager to join our Jewson team, based in Northampton. 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 operates in a safe manner and in line with all company policies and procedures. Deputise for Branch Manager as required.

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

Hours will be 44.5 hours a week Monday-Friday 7:00-4:30/5:00 and every other Saturday 8:00-12:00

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 day-to-day 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 costWhat 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 licenceDesirable

GCSEs (Or equivalent) - Maths & English
Post-GCSE qualification
Relevant forklift licence
People management experience

You'll also get some great benefits???

A defined contribution pension scheme
Competitive salary
Access to 100's of high street and leisure discounts, as well as a state of the art rewards system
As part of Jewson, you're automatically covered by the Saint-Gobain Life Assurance scheme.
Plus, plenty more!

Working for Saint-Gobain Brands

We are an inclusive employer and keen to hire talented people regardless of their background, abilities, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender, national origin, what football team you support, taste in music, fashion sense or anything else that makes you, you!

We believe that working in a diverse business can be more enjoyable, teams can be more innovative, and make better decisions. We already employ many fantastic people from diverse backgrounds, but we still want to do more.

So, we are on a mission to make Saint-Gobain inclusive and accessible to all, with role models for you to look up to and learn from, no matter who you are!

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 flexible requirement or need that you may have for this role. We can't guarantee to meet all requests for flexibility when we are recruiting. But, we promise to listen.

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