Yard Sales Assistant

Travis Perkins; Enfield; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A construction supply company in England is looking for a Yard Sales Assistant who will provide excellent customer service while working outside. The role involves managing customer orders, lifting heavy materials, and ensuring a tidy working environment. The ideal candidate has a friendly personality and enjoys outdoor work. This position offers competitive pay and benefits, including a development plan for career growth and work-life balance with flexible hours.

Benefits

Annual colleague bonus

Contributory pension

Private healthcare

Life assurance

Employee discounts across the group

Qualifications

• Ability to provide excellent customer service.
• Must be physically active and capable of lifting heavy materials.
• Friendly personality with strong communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver excellent customer service in a yard environment.
• Process customer orders and manage loading/unloading.
• Maintain a safe and tidy working environment.

Skills

Customer service

Physical fitness

Adaptability

Communication

Job description

Overview

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.

Responsibilities

• 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, 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!