Travis Perkins is the UK's largest builders' merchant, and we're offering an exciting opportunity for an experienced Assistant Hire Manager, or Supervisor to manage our HIRE team at our Leicester branch. If you have a sales and customer service background or have worked in the tool hire industry, we want to hear from you!
This role will be based at our Travis Perkins Leicester branch on Ravensbridge Drive, Leicester, LE4 0BX, you will be joining Peter Cox and his team.
As part of the branch team you will play a vital role in our continued success, providing a first class service.
- Make customer service – and our £5 billion business – second to none
- Play your part in a friendly and hardworking team
- Add to your branch’s reputation for outstanding customer service
- Build a great career within a top UK employer
At Travis Perkins we pride ourselves on being a great place to work. We’re a top employer that looks after our people and empowers them to look after our business and our loyal customer base.
As an Assistant Hire Manager, you’ll report to and assistant the Hire Manager whilst helping customers find the tools they need and arrange a hiring contract. It could be anything from earth-movers to drills, but whatever equipment’s required, safety will always be your priority. With your support and fantastic service, you’ll have customers singing our praises.
To succeed, you’ll need:
- To be a natural people person – great with customers and colleagues alike
- The ability to learn new systems and skills quickly
- A friendly, helpful personality
- Some mechanical knowledge or an interest in tools and equipment
- Have previous experience in hire
- Supervisor/management experience would be an advantage
- Used to working to SLA's and KPI's
In return, you’ll have every opportunity to drive your career forward within a large and expanding business with deep local roots and strong family values.
Being a Assistant Hire Manager 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.
