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Direct Hire Manager

  1. Permanent - Full time
£Competitive + Benefits
  1. BSS
  2. Lutterworth, Leicestershire

hrs/pw

Monday - Friday

Leicester; Lutterworth

43587

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Direct Hire Manager


Keen to expand your management experience? A problem solver?  Do you have an eye for detail? Want to work within a fast paced and interesting environment? Desire to develop and Nurture a department as it grows?


Location: Lutterworth (3-5 days office based)


What you’ll do - 


Working as part of the BSS Direct Hire team, managing a team of 5. We have recently gone through a restructure enabling the creation of this new position. You and the team will be liaising with a variety of different stakeholders, from branch teams, suppliers and customers.


  • Responsible for recruiting, leading, managing and developing a team within the Direct Hire function to provide first class, efficient service for internal and external customers alike, ensuring service excellence is maintained and best practice methods established.

  • Monitoring, reviewing and analysing performance of the team, drive greater efficiency and provide a framework against which performance can be better measured, development needs mapped-out and improvements proactively managed

  • Training and development of the team to ensure skills are up to date, include succession planning and further career development

  • Act as an escalation point for internal/external customers, taking ownership and seeking to resolve them to the satisfaction of all concerned proactively.


Is this you? 


  • Strong leader?

  • Good communicator and experienced in resolving customer complaints?

  • Great Interpersonal skills


What’s in it for you?


Joining BSS as a Direct Hire Manager means joining a reputable and expanding business offering great company benefits such as discounts across our businesses and the support of an employer who values your development as much as you do.  

 

We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that grows as you grow with the company:


- Save-as-you-earn scheme

- Buy-as-you-earn scheme

- Contributory pension scheme

- Colleague discount across a variety of Group businesses 

 

A bit about us


As the largest distributor of building materials in the UK, Travis Perkins has been helping to build Britain for over 200 years.

With 5 Leading Brands, 1,700+ Locations and 16,000+ Colleagues around the UK, we believe we have the best people and the best place to work. Everyone works hard together to deliver results, but most importantly, have some fun along the way!


Not Sure you Qualify? We’re driving to become a truly inclusive employer, where everyone in our Group feels safe, welcome and confident to be their authentic selves - you be you, it makes us, us, as we say. If you’re interested in this opportunity but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be just the right candidate for this or other roles with us.

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