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Yard Sales Assistant

Travis Perkins plc

Melksham

On-site

GBP 20,000 - 30,000

Full time

30+ days ago

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Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Yard Sales Assistant to join their friendly team. This role involves providing exceptional customer service while processing orders and maintaining a safe outdoor working environment. Ideal candidates will be physically active, possess strong communication skills, and thrive in a dynamic setting. The company offers competitive pay and benefits, including a development scheme for career growth. Join a workplace that values inclusivity and has been recognized as one of the UK’s Top Employers, where your contributions will make a significant impact.

Benefits

Annual Colleague Bonus
Contributory Pension
Private Healthcare
Life Assurance
Sharesave Scheme
Group Discounts
Online Discounts
Work-Life Balance

Qualifications

  • Ability to provide great customer service is essential.
  • Physical fitness required for lifting heavy materials.

Responsibilities

  • Deliver high standards of customer service and build relationships.
  • Process customer orders and maintain a safe working environment.
  • Unload building products and book them in the warehouse.

Skills

Customer Service
Physical Activity
Communication
Adaptability
Resilience
Tenacity
Energy and Drive

Tools

Forklift

Job description

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.

What will I be doing?

No one day is the same as the next in TP branch life, but here are a few pointers:

  1. 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.
  2. You will be based outside, processing our customer orders, loading and unloading customer and company vehicles.
  3. You will also unload our building products from supplier deliveries and accurately book them in the branch warehouse.
  4. Experience of using a forklift is ideal, but don't worry full training is provided.
  5. 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:

  1. Someone that is physically active, as this role is located outside, it will involve lifting heavy building materials.
  2. Someone that has a friendly and outgoing personality who is happy to communicate face to face with customers and build strong relationships.
  3. Someone that is adaptable, resilient and tenacious with high levels of energy and drive.
  4. 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. As a new colleague 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!

You may not know much about Travis Perkins, but if you look a bit closer you might be surprised, despite our size, we have the values of a family run business and the mindset and ambition of a forward thinking Company. We pride ourselves on being a great place to work that's why we have been voted one of the UK’s Top Employers every year since 2010. We offer our employees access to extensive career opportunities across our 5 leading businesses. We operate out of more than 1400 outlets nationwide and have over 20,000 colleagues.

We’re driving to become a truly inclusive employer. We want everyone to be at their best and it’s our ambition that everyone within our Group feels safe, welcome and confident to be their authentic selves.

You be you, it makes us, us.

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