Job Description

Jewson a leading building materials distributor in Northern Europe, is on the hunt for a Branch Sales Manager who's as passionate about great leadership as we are.

We provide a fulfilling and enjoyable work environment with ample opportunities for career growth, along with a competitive salary, staff discount, life assurance, and 33 days of holiday (inclusive of bank holidays).

Location: Jewson, 2, Off Wagonway Rd, Alnwick, NE66 1QR.

Hours: 07:30am - 17:00pm Monday to Friday, 08:00am - 12:00pm every other Saturday

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day activities, deploying resource to ensure efficient and effective operations.

• Give regular and timely constructive feedback on colleague performance, holding the team accountable and providing coaching and development solutions to enhance capability and deliver a high quality customer experience.

• Lead by example in developing strong relationships through regular customer interaction.

• Understand how to deliver profitable sales and support the team in maximising growth through cross selling and leveraging our solutions such as BA and Toolhire.

• Create time and opportunities for colleagues to develop their product knowledge.

• Take full ownership to resolve challenging situations, customer complaints or feedback.

• Ensure branch operating standards are always maintained.

• Collaborate with operational colleagues to ensure inventory and availability levels are appropriate to meet customer needs.

• Collaborate with operational colleagues to ensure efficient and cost-effective fulfilment of branch orders, collections and transfers.

• Maintain full branch compliance with company policies and procedures, especially in relation to Health & Safety.

• Deputise for BM when required

• Manage, develop and grow your assigned portfolio of customers.

• Develop trust relationships with a portfolio of customers to maintain and improve profitability.

Required Skills and Experience

• It is important you have can evidence experience in motivating and driving sales for this role.

• Strong communication and commercial awareness to be able to empower the team to provide great customer service.

What’s in it for you?

• Retirement Savings Plan (Pension) – with Legal & General.

• Life Assurance - From your first day of employment with us you are automatically covered for a lump-sum death in service benefit of 2 x your basic salary. However, if you join the STARK Building Materials Retirement Savings Plan (including if you are automatically enrolled) and contribute a minimum of 4% of your Pensionable Earnings, your lump sum death in service benefit will be increased to 4 x your Pensionable Earnings.

• WorkPerks – A platform home to hundreds of all your favourite high street and online discounts via the provider Reward Gateway.

• Aviva Digicare+ Workplace App (Access to a digital GP, second medical opinions, Mental Health consultation, bereavement service, nutritional consultation).

• Voluntary company benefits such as Car Salary Sacrifice scheme with VWFS, Cycle2Work, Benenden Healthcare, Critical Illness Cover.

• Employee Discount.

• Refer a Friend scheme.

• Wellbeing Centre via WorkPerks

• New Reward and Recognition programme – launching soon!

About us

At Jewson we're proud to be part of STARK Building Materials UK and dedicated to providing top-quality products and exceptional service to our customers. We're a friendly and collaborative team, passionate about what we do and committed to doing it well. 

If you're ready to take your career to the next level and join a team that is dedicated to providing great service, we want to hear from you. Apply today!