Yard Sales Assistant

Travis Perkins plc; Reading; 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 while working outdoors. This role offers a dynamic environment with opportunities for career development and a supportive team culture. Enjoy competitive pay and various benefits, while contributing to a family-run business ethos.

Benefits

Annual Bonus

Contributory Pension

Private Healthcare

Life Assurance

Sharesave Scheme

Discounts across Travis Perkins Group

Qualifications

• Physically active role involving lifting heavy materials.
• Friendly and outgoing, comfortable with customer interactions.

Responsibilities

• Building strong relationships with customers.
• Processing customer orders and loading/unloading vehicles.
• Maintaining safety standards in the working environment.

Skills

Customer Service

Communication

Physical Fitness

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

What skills do you need?

This is a key customer-facing role. You need 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 following characteristics, which are in the DNA of all our Yard Sales Assistants:

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

Being a Yard Sales Assistant at TP offers a great opportunity to excel and develop your career. New colleagues are encouraged to enroll in our TP development scheme, available at all levels. We support your growth with a development plan aligned with our values.

You will also receive £Competitive pay + Benefits, including an annual bonus, contributory pension, private healthcare, life assurance, sharesave scheme, and discounts across the Travis Perkins Group and leading retailers. Our working hours promote a great work-life balance, with most weekends and bank holidays off.

Despite our size, Travis Perkins values a family-run business ethos combined with a forward-thinking mindset. We are proud to be one of the UK’s Top Employers since 2010, offering extensive career opportunities across our five leading businesses. We operate over 1400 outlets nationwide with more than 20,000 colleagues.

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

You be you, it makes us, us.