Yard Sales Assistant

Travis Perkins; Ventnor; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Travis Perkins seeks a Yard Sales Assistant to engage with customers and maintain high service standards. Key responsibilities include processing orders outdoors, unloading deliveries, and fostering strong customer relationships. We provide training for forklift operation and a personalized development plan to support your career growth.

Benefits

Annual colleague bonus

Contributory pension

Private healthcare

Life assurance

Discounts across the Travis Perkins Group

Online discounts at leading retailers

Airport parking discounts

Discounts at theme parks, dining, and cinemas

Qualifications

• Ability to provide great customer service.
• Physically active as lifting heavy building materials is required.
• Friendly and outgoing personality for face-to-face communication.

Responsibilities

• Deliver highest standards of service to build customer relationships.
• Load and unload vehicles with building materials.
• Maintain a tidy and safe working environment.

Skills

Customer Service

Physical Activity

Friendliness

Adaptability

Resilience

Tenacity

High Energy

Job description

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Join Our Team as a Yard Sales Assistant

Become part of our friendly and hardworking family as a Yard Sales Assistant. In this role, you'll be on the front line engaging with customers who visit our yard. As a vital member of our branch team, you'll contribute to our continued success by providing first-class service.

What Will I Be Doing?

Every day is different in TP branch life, but here are some key responsibilities:

• Helping deliver the highest standards of service to build strong relationships with our customers — being helpful and friendly at all times, often getting to know customers by name.
• Working outdoors to process customer orders, load and unload vehicles.
• Unloading building materials from supplier deliveries and accurately recording them in the branch warehouse.
• Using a forklift — experience is ideal, but full training will be provided.
• Maintaining a tidy and safe working environment to ensure safety standards are met at all times.

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 following characteristics, which are part of the DNA of all our Yard Sales Assistants:

• Someone who is physically active, as the role involves lifting heavy building materials.
• Someone with a friendly and outgoing personality, happy to communicate face-to-face with customers and build relationships.
• Someone who is adaptable, resilient, and tenacious, with high energy and drive.
• Someone who thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Being a Yard Sales Assistant at TP offers an excellent opportunity to excel and develop your career. We encourage new colleagues to enroll in our TP development scheme, available at all levels of our business. We support your growth with a personalized development plan aligned with our values.

You’ll 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). Additionally, enjoy online discounts at leading retailers, airport parking, theme parks, dining, and cinemas. Our working hours promote a great work-life balance — most customers prefer to enjoy their weekends and bank holidays, and so can you!