Business Manager

We are looking for a Branch Manager to successfully run our Wakefield Branch (WF1):

Join one of the UK’s leading distributors of electrical products and solution providers with 250+ branches nationally with a core value to develop talent & internal progression.

• Great Salary + Performance based Bonus Scheme
• Company car + Fuel Card or Cash Allowance, Laptop & Mobile provided
• Contracted to 42.5 hours per week
• Monday to Friday – shifts between 07:00 – 17:00
• 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays) + Birthday day off 
• Comprehensive health & wellbeing support programme , long service awards & key milestones
• Benefits: Enhanced family leave benefits , Agile working, Training academy  , Buy and Sell annual leave , Free virtual GP service, accessible 24/7 & Staff discount on webshop & discounts in high-street stores.

As a Branch Manager, you will manage the day-to-day operation, drive exceptional customer service to our customers to ensure repeat sales and provide training & coaching with the Internal sales team and branch assistants to ensure service level targets are consistently achieved.

As a Branch Manager, you will ideally have previous management experience within a wholesale environment, have a fresh and innovative approach to sales and attracting new customers to keep, increase and drive branch sales to ensure daily/weekly targets are exceeded.

Branch Manager – Background, Experience & attributes needed:

• Full UK driving license is essential
• Experience of commercially managing a business unit / branch within the industrial supplies sector is essential
• To have had experience of working under pressure in a fast-paced role, whilst maintaining a consistent eye for detail
• An ability to embrace change and new technologies
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to influence across a cross functional team to deliver target performance
• Intermediate IT skills (i.e. Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint)

PLEASE APPLY ONLINE TODAY and a member of the team will be in touch

Suitable for: Branch manager, assistant managers, team leader, trade counter manager, Internal sales person, sales manager, account manager, store manager, trade manager, business development executive

Our client believes that this role does not meet the criteria to be considered within the Home Office Shortage Occupation list. Therefore, they will not support an application for visa sponsorship and all applicants for this role must have an unrestricted right to work in the UK.

Meridian Business Support is a recruitment specialist acting on behalf of our client as an Employment Agency for this vacancy