Sales Assistant

Salary: £26,695 + Bonus + Excellent Benefits Sales Assistant - Blackpool (FY4 2FD) - Plumb Centre

So, who are we? We are Plumb Centre, part of the Wolseley Group – a leading specialist trade merchant across the UK and Ireland. We pride ourselves in putting our people and customers at the heart of everything we do – and best of all, provide opportunities to develop skills and build careers through our award-winning Wolseley Talent Guild.

In addition to the £26,695 salary, there are also benefits on tap – including:

• Annual leave (increasing with length of service)
• a generous pension scheme (matched up to 9%)
• potential to earn bonuses
• enhanced maternity / adoption leave
• access to a great range of online and high street discounts

We also promote positive health and wellbeing by offering free access to healthcare, our popular YuLife app, our Cycle to Work scheme and more!

• free access to healthcare
• our popular YuLife app
• our Cycle to Work scheme
• more!

As a Sales Assistant based in our Blackpool branch you’ll be responsible for:

• Serving customers on the trade counter by understanding their specific needs and providing advice and product recommendations
• Responding to customer enquiries via phone & email promptly and courteously, with a proactive attitude
• Making outbound phone calls to previous customers to regain their business
• Actively identifying and pursuing opportunities to drive sales within the branch, engaging both new and existing customers
• General warehouse duties including booking incoming stock onto the system and putting it away and picking and packing customer orders which will involve manual handling heavy stock e.g. boilers, radiators, sinks and toilets
• Relief Driver - Driving a 3.5T automatic van making deliveries to customers within a 20 mile radius of the branch

This is a full time permanent role working 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday between 07.00am - 5.00pm.

And here’s what we’d like you to have:

• A Driving Licence is essential
• Plumbing & Heating knowledge is ideal
• Previous Face to Face sales and customer service experience
• Warehouse experience
• The ability to deliver outstanding customer service
• To be a team player who is happy to assist in all areas to ensure the smooth running of the branch
• Eagerness to learn, with a positive and enthusiastic attitude and a strong work ethic
• To be comfortable lifting heavy items

Wolseley UK is the country’s largest plumbing, heating and cooling trade specialist merchant and we aim to be the first choice specialist merchant for trade customers. We supply 180,000 different products to over 100,000 customers every year. Join us and you’ll be part of a team that gets the right products to customers at the right price, in the right place, and at the right time. You’ll also enjoy extensive training and an award-winning pension and great rewards package. And, as part of the world’s largest specialist distributer of plumbing and heating products, you’ll have access to a wide variety of career opportunities.

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