Vacancy No                                        5230

Vacancy Title                                     Branch Manager- Building Products Distributor- Exeter

Vacancy Description                       Are you an ambitious sales professional, looking to develop your career with one of the UK’s largest distributors of building products?

Our Client is seeking to recruit an Branch Manager to join their successful team in Exeter to manage the branch and promoting their high quality products to Major Contractors, Groundworkers and Civil Engineers.

The Role

As both the leader of a small team and member of the dedicated salesforce, your role will involve overseeing the smooth running of the branch as a first point of contact for customers.

The duties and responsibilities of the role include:

LEADING SAFETY & WELLBEING: Monitors and improves safety culture in the branch, creating and enabling continuous improvement plans. rigorously drives best practice. 

LEADING HIGH PERFORMANCE: Sets stretching ambitions and inspires high performance, sets the bar high and tracks and recognises performance. Builds capable, skilled, knowledgeable teams. Adapts flexibility through multi-skilling colleagues and aligning working patterns to demand. Coaches and communicates well to continually develop themselves and others. Create strong, diverse succession planning through effective recruitment and structuring colleague development through meaningful 121s.

CUSTOMER, SERVICE & SALES: Provides great service Builds fantastic relationships with all customers, working closely with your top 10. Understanding of local and regional market opportunities and linking in with national strategy. Has the ability to rapidly resolve complaints. Sets targets and plans to deliver profitable growth and drive margin improvement.

MANAGES COMMERCIAL GROWTH: Builds great supplier relationships, recognising and capitalising on commercial opportunities, working closely with the Commercial team

OPERATIONS & TRANSPORT OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE: Setting high standards and high levels of branch compliance – ISO accreditations, KCR, fleet transport. Leads the team to optimise layout for efficiency, effectiveness and the safety and wellbeing of our customers and colleagues. Effectively manages cost and ensures adequate levels of resource – balancing volume of business with the safety and wellbeing of colleagues. Ensure adequate levels and ranges of stock

BEING A GREAT LEADER: Setting tangible goals to inspire and empower and always act with integrity accountable. Getting the best out of people by building trusted relationships and having development plans in place to recruit and develop future leaders.

DRIVEN BY SUCCESS AND OWNING YOUR BUSINESS: Calculate risk, have positive intent

FANTASTIC AT BUILDING STRONG RELATIONSHIPS: know your local market to relentlessly build and use commercial networks – you know how relationships drive business.

The Candidate

In order to be successful in this Branch Manager’s role, you will need to enjoy in working within a fast-paced sales environment where professionalism and a high levels of customer service are key to success.

You will also need experience in managing and motivating a team (prior experience in management would be an advantage).

Experience in the construction industry is desired along with the ability to work using your own initiative as well as working as part of a team.

Other skills required include:

• An outgoing personality
• Excellent communication skills and organisational skills.
• Enthusiastic and professional telephone manner
• Attention to detail
• Good knowledge of computer programmes
• Minimum 3 years in Merchanting or multi site Customer or trade distribution Proven delivery of setting and delivering growth plans, through a customer and colleague focus. Consistent Delivery against Budgets and Operating Plans Face to face Customer and Supplier negotiations

This role offers the successful candidate excellent career progression and a competitive (negotiable) salary package.

Location/Area                                  Exeter

Salary                                                   

Negotiable dependent on experience + attractive (monthly) incentive scheme