Yard Sales Assistant

Travis Perkins plc; Southampton; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Yard Sales Assistant, where you will be the face of the branch, delivering exceptional customer service and building lasting relationships. This dynamic role involves working outdoors, processing orders, and ensuring safety standards. With opportunities for career development and a supportive environment, you can thrive in a workplace that values its employees and promotes a healthy work-life balance. Enjoy competitive pay and a range of benefits, making this position not just a job, but a stepping stone to a rewarding career.

Benefits

Annual Colleague Bonus

Contributory Pension

Private Healthcare

Life Assurance

Sharesave Scheme

Discounts across Travis Perkins Group

Online Discounts at Retailers

Theme Park Discounts

Dining Out Discounts

Airport Parking Discounts

Qualifications

• Ability to provide exceptional customer service.
• Physically active, able to lift heavy materials outdoors.

Responsibilities

• Build strong relationships with customers and deliver high service standards.
• Process customer orders and maintain a tidy working environment.

Skills

Customer Service

Physical Fitness

Communication Skills

Adaptability

Tools

Forklift

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 to deliver high standards of service—being helpful and friendly at all times, often getting to know customers by name.
• 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 at all times.

What skills do you need?

This is a customer-facing role. The key requirement is 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 following characteristics, which are part of the DNA of all our fantastic Yard Sales Assistants:

• Physically active, as this role involves lifting heavy building materials outdoors.
• 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 great opportunities for career development. You will be encouraged to enroll in our TP development scheme, available to colleagues and managers 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 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 out, and cinemas. Our working hours promote a healthy work-life balance, allowing most of our colleagues to enjoy weekends and bank holidays off.

Although you may not know much about Travis Perkins now, look closer—you might be surprised. Despite our size, we have the values of a family-run business combined with the ambition of a forward-thinking company. We pride ourselves on being a great place to work, voted one of the UK’s Top Employers every year since 2010. We offer extensive career opportunities across our five leading businesses, operating from over 1,400 outlets nationwide with more than 20,000 colleagues.

We’re committed to becoming a truly inclusive employer. We want everyone to be at their best and feel safe, welcome, and confident to be their authentic selves.

You be you, it makes us, us.