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Tool Hire Manager

Location: Banbury

Salary: £ NEG

Role: Full-time

Tool Hire Manager

Main purpose:

  • To generate profitable Tool Hire business by building relationships with customers both face to face and via the telephone to achieve maximum sales, whilst ensuring effective and efficient running of Tool Hire.
  • Promote MKM to be the merchant of choice within your geographical area

Sales and Service:

Supervise the team to deliver an excellent customer experience and work towards Branch sales and profit targets by:

  • Ensuring profitable customer relationships are built and maintained, including complaint resolution, preparing customer orders, loading and unloading safely and satisfactorily, ensuring on hires are delivered efficiently.
  • Ensure sales orders and delivery schedules are processed accurately and promptly
  • Advise customers on trading terms and conditions and information in relation to customer accounts and credit levels
  • Supporting all Company initiatives
  • Following plans to continuously improve customer experience
  • Understanding local market issues and communicate to Manager to support sales growth plans

Operational Compliance:

Support Branch Management to:

  • Deliver key KPIs
  • Carry out all cash transactions, refund and till processes accurately and safeguard Company’s stock, money and all other Company assets
  • Adhere to all company policies and procedures
  • Enhance the Safety and Wellbeing culture and meet targets

Stock Management:

  • Manage the purchasing of spare parts as necessary.
  • Conduct stock takes
  • Make recommendations for stock purchases taking account of product mix in accordance with local needs

Health and Safety:

  • Ensure all staff are Health & Safety trained (annually)
  • Cascade the Croner Health & Safety training to all staff
  • Ensure staff operate within Health & Safety guidelines, including the wearing of Personal, Protective Clothing (PPC) required for their job
  • Run regular Fire Drills
  • Make sure the hire areas are clean, tidy and safe

People Management:

Support Branch Management to:

  • Achieve Safety and Wellbeing culture
  • Embed Saint-Gobain Principles of Conduct and Action into working environment and behavioral standards
  • Develop a performance culture and high colleague engagement
  • Communicate Company plans, goals and individual objectives.
  • Support the team with day-to-day queries

Product Knowledge

  • Maintain up to date knowledge of products and regulations, awareness of products and services and trends within the marketplace and identify future opportunities for the development of the hire range.

Skills knowledge and experience:

Essential

· Full, clean driving license (c1e and be) is preferred

· Working knowledge of appropriate Health & Safety legislation

· A relevant understanding of the market and product knowledge

· Able to work on own initiative and as part of a team

· Flexible and enthusiastic attitude

· Demonstrable customer service focus

· Able to create and maintain successful relationships

· Good organisational skills to manage stock

Desirable

  • GCSEs (Or equivalent) - Maths & English
  • Relevant forklift licence
  • Experience in a sales/customer focused role
  • IT literate

Benefits

In return, you can be a part of the UK’s largest independent Builders Merchant and winner of many industry awards. Some of the benefits we offer include:

·        A competitive pay package

·        Generous discretionary bonus scheme

·        Substantial staff discounts

·        Training and development opportunities

·        Holiday scheme which rewards length of service

·        Perkbox discounts

·        Contributory pension scheme

·        Financial Planning Support

·        Cycle to work scheme

·        Free parking

·        Enhanced Maternity

·        Enhanced Paternity

·        Substantial Employee Discount

·        Employee Assistance Programme

·        Mental Health Support

Please be advised this role includes working alternate Saturday mornings

MKM is the leading independent builders’ merchant in the UK, and we were established in 1995. Our people are what make us unique in what we do. Today we have more than 135 branches and over 3200 employees nationwide. Whilst we continue to grow, we are constantly striving to always attract, recruit, retain, promote, and support a diverse mix of colleagues that create a sense of belonging to the ‘MKM family’ for everyone. We hope you will join us on our journey!

Apply to: [email protected]