Are you an experienced sales professional looking to develop your career further? We are Travis Perkins, the UK’s largest builders merchant and we have an exciting and unique opportunity for a CONTRACT SALES MANAGER, someone to take the lead of our Managed Service operation in Norwich.
Working hours are Mon-Fri 7.30am - 4.30pm - no weekend working and working location is 24 Weston Road, Norwich, NR3 3TP. The branch is a BUSY one! We have over 30 TP colleagues working within our merchanting, managed service, tool hire and Benchmarx kitchen teams. This role is within our dedicated managed services team, leading a team of 6, with a healthy £T/O; a dedicated sales professional is now needed to grow our client relationships to their full potential.
What will you be doing?
Developing strong relationships with key managed service clients in order to build profitable business growth. Build regular, productive and focused contact with the key customers and your branch colleagues in order to drive value add to the customers
Be in control of sales, margin and overheads for you managed service clients to exceed targets and deliver best in class financial performance
Manage numerous core client relationships, building rapport and trust, spotting opportunities for growth and being able to juggle and prioritise workload across different client demands
Attend regular client meetings
Support the Branch Manager to set the tone and champion a Stay Safe culture across the branch at all times promoting a healthy workplace and colleague wellbeing.
You will lead, motivate, engage and delegate to empower your team to work together and deliver great service for our customers
What’s in it for you?
If career development is important for you, whether you are operationally focused or sales driven then your future career path could lead you to roles such as a dedicated branch operational management or a regional operations or sales role.
In return for your hard work you will receive the following:
myMoney - competitive salary/annual leave, contributory pension scheme plus other benefits including bonus, Life Insurance and ShareScheme
myColleagueDiscount - savings across the TP Group including tool hire and ToolStation
myHealth - Aviva DigiCare, Cycle to Work, access to our online Wellbeing Centre plus more
myLife - myCar options (NovaLease/MotivaDirect), legal services advice
myInfoHub - access to our new learning platform, apprenticeship opportunities, StayWell hub. We have a number recognised Management Apprentice programs to support your development, including our level 5 Management program to support you further in your career
PLUS a huge array of everyday savings via our employee discount programme and family friendly HR policies
Does this sound like you?
The successful candidate will IDEALLY already be supporting/managing a merchanting store, with demonstrable experience in sales growth and stakeholder management. You will have relevant skills and experience in relationship management, identifying and converting sales opportunities, motivating a wider team with a fantastic attitude to customer service. You will understand the importance of compliance, audit and health & safety within the branch and will champion a positive culture.
To join us you will have:
A passion to drive sales and a background to demonstrate your success
Ability to manage numerous clients and their demands
Experience in building and maintaining strong and positive relationships with all clients and colleagues
Are you:
A passionate, inspirational and engaging manager, able to delegate successfully and empower colleagues to take accountability and lead the managed service provision of the branch, creating and cultivating that “one team” approach?
Highly adaptable, resilient and tenacious with high levels of energy and drive?
Someone who thrives in a dynamic and fast paced environment, with an entrepreneurial spirit?
Interested? Please apply NOW!
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’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.
To keep our business and customers safe, if you are successful in the role you will be made a conditional offer subject to additional background checks including criminal record (basic DBS), adverse financial, media search, directors search, occupational history, professional membership/qualification.
You be you, it makes us, us.
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