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Estimating Manager

£Competitive + Benefit

Northampton, Northamptonshire

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Do you have experience of leading a team? Are you passionate about your customers and always thinking of them first?

Travis Perkins are currently looking for an Estimating Manager to join the team, if you have the drive and personality to develop and lead a team; with our people and customers being our key focus in all we seek to achieve, then you could be who we are looking for!   

What you’ll do

As our Estimating Manager, you’ll lead by example, providing a best in class, seamless estimating service with our team of Estimators. 

Estimating is more than just producing technically accurate product and pricing info, Estimating offers the confidence to our customers that we can price, supply and deliver the right products at the right time allowing the successful completion of their projects. So to manage our Estimating team naturally takes more than just delegation and performance reviews.

The Estimating team supports our branch network and customers nationally, working on domestic construction projects. Role critical accountability is ensuring our customer's expectations are met through maintaining lead times and looking at opportunities to increase productivity and our service offering. Ensuring quality control measures and regulatory requirements are maintained, reviewed and updated as required.

You’ll also take the lead on: 
- Developing Estimating systems, ensuring take up of the estimating service, giving a consistent approach to scheduling, archiving and maintaining a best in class service 
- Benchmarking services to ensure they reflect our target market and regulatory requirements 
- Monthly MI reporting 
- Maintaining our collaborative team working culture within the business 

Is this you?

Experience in supervising and leading a team within the construction industry would be great, but if you don’t have industry knowledge don’t let that hold you back! If you can manage a team successfully, meet customer and business expectations, have the ability to interpret technical specifications and drawings whilst also having strong commercial awareness then this could be an exciting opportunity for you! 

What we are looking for is someone who will lead a team, a great communicator that builds strong relationships, a winning mindset, determined to understand and deliver what our customers want and be the driving force that develops our fantastic team and service at every opportunity.

What’s in it for you?

You’ll be supported by some of the best training & development in the industry. Our impressive internal succession programme means, whatever it is you do with us,  it will be easy for you to learn, grow and develop across the Travis Perkins Group.
  
We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that grows as you grow with the company:
- Competitive bonus
- 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 over 26 businesses, 28,000 colleagues and more than 2,000 branches, stores and sites 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!
 
If you have the desire to be part of our team we would love to hear from you!

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