Yard Sales Assistant

Travis Perkins plc; Eastleigh; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Yard Sales Assistant, where you'll provide exceptional customer service and build relationships with customers. This role involves outdoor work, processing orders, and maintaining safety standards. Enjoy competitive pay, benefits, and opportunities for career development in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Annual Colleague Bonus

Contributory Pension

Private Healthcare

Life Assurance

Sharesave Scheme

Discounts Across Travis Perkins Group

Online Discounts at Leading Retailers

Qualifications

• Customer-facing role requiring great customer service skills.
• Physically active, involves lifting heavy materials outdoors.

Responsibilities

• Building strong relationships with customers by delivering high standards of service.
• Processing customer orders and maintaining safety standards.
• Unloading building products and booking them into the warehouse.

Skills

Customer Service

Communication

Physical Fitness

Adaptability

Job description

Joining our friendly and hardworking family as an Yard Sales Assistant, you'll be on the front line dealing with our customers who visit our yard. As part of the branch team, you will play a vital role in our continued success by providing first-class service.

What will I be doing?

No two days are the same in TP branch life, but here are some key responsibilities:

• Building strong relationships with customers by delivering high standards of service. Being helpful and friendly at all times, often getting to know our customers on a first-name basis.
• Working outdoors, processing customer orders, loading and unloading vehicles.
• Unloading building products from deliveries and accurately booking them into the branch warehouse.
• Experience with a forklift is ideal, but full training will be provided.
• Maintaining safety standards, keeping the work environment tidy and safe.

What skills do you need?

This is a customer-facing role. The key requirement is providing great customer service. We can teach you the rest.

Does this sound like you?

We hope you can say ‘Yes’ to all of the following characteristics, which are part of the DNA of all our Yard Sales Assistants:

• Physically active, as the role involves lifting heavy building materials outdoors.
• Friendly and outgoing, comfortable communicating face-to-face with customers and building relationships.
• Adaptable, resilient, tenacious, with high energy and drive.
• Thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Being a Yard Sales Assistant at TP offers a great opportunity for career development. You will be encouraged to enroll in our TP development scheme, available at all levels of the business. We support your growth with a development plan aligned with our values.

You will also receive competitive pay + benefits, including an annual colleague bonus, contributory pension, private healthcare, life assurance, sharesave scheme, and discounts across the Travis Perkins Group (including Toolstation). We also offer online discounts at leading retailers, airport parking, theme parks, dining, and cinemas. Our working hours promote a healthy work-life balance, allowing most colleagues to enjoy weekends and bank holidays off.

Despite our size, Travis Perkins maintains the values of a family-run business with the ambition of a forward-thinking company. We are proud to be recognized as one of the UK’s Top Employers every year since 2010. We offer extensive career opportunities across our five leading businesses, operating from over 1400 outlets nationwide with more than 20,000 colleagues.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer. We want everyone to feel safe, welcome, and confident to be their authentic selves.

You be you, it makes us, us.