Branch Manager

City Plumbing; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading plumbing supplier in Ipswich is seeking a talented Branch Manager to lead a high-performing team and drive sales. The ideal candidate will possess excellent leadership skills and a proactive approach to customer relationship management. You will be responsible for maximizing profitability, building relationships, and ensuring customer satisfaction. This role includes multiple benefits and an inclusive work culture that values diversity and encourages personal growth.

Benefits

Bonus

Discounts at numerous retailers

Life assurance

Flexible working options

Mental Health First Aiders and Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Natural leader with excellent communication and organisation skills.
• Experience in customer relationship management and developing partnerships.
• Tenacious and resilient with a strong desire to win new business.

Responsibilities

• Effective management of the team and resources.
• Deliver against sales and customer demands while maximising profitability.
• Build and maintain relationships with new and existing customers.

Skills

Leadership

Sales orientation

Excellent communication skills

Ability to interpret financial information

Pro-active approach to sales

Job description

Come and join us as a results driven Branch Manager to deliver sales and exceed customer expectations whilst leading a hugely successful branch team.

As a Branch Manager, you will be a natural leader with excellent communication and organisation skills, enabling you to motivate and develop your team. You will identify and capitalise on every sales opportunity, inspiring your customers with the perfect solutions for their requirements. The Branch Manager will be an expert at building rapport quickly and creating trusted relationships to ensure that everything we do enables us to deliver on our promises to our customers and exceed expectations. You’ll naturally promote and embrace our inclusive team environment and we’re sure you’ll have some fun along the way!

• Effective management of the team and resource
• Setting the standard of a sales orientated culture
• Delivering against sales and customer demands while maximising profitability
• Maximising margin and net profit
• Keeping everyone safe
• Build and maintain relationships with new and existing trade and retail customers
• Ability to interpret and analyse financial and statistical information

As a Branch Manager, you’ll have an innovative and agile approach to identify growth opportunities. You’ll enjoy working collaboratively with a dedicated focus on driving results, whilst being committed to acting with integrity and honesty in everything you do.

• Tenacity and resilience
• A pro-active approach to sales, with a strong desire and ability to win and grow new business
• Experience of customer relationship management and developing a true partnership approach
• Excellent communication skills
• Self confident and self motivated, with the ability to work on own initiative or as part of a wider team
• Ability to interpret financial and statistical information

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs if they feel they don’t have every one of the required skills. All Highbourne Group companies are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. So if you’re interested in this role but think that your previous experience doesn’t completely match - apply anyway. You could be just the person we’re looking for!

From boilers to bathroom suites, tubing to towel rails and everything in between, City Plumbing has all the products our customers need to complete the job. And we have all you need to build a successful career! We’re proud of our reputation for selling quality plumbing and heating products to both trade and retail customers and we’re super excited about our future. We put our colleagues at the heart of all we do, giving them all the tools they need to be successful, happy and feel rewarded in their career with us.

• Bonus
• Discounts, savings and cash back at numerous retailers
• Life assurance
• Extended family policy including maternity, paternity, additional annual leave and more
• Mental Health First Aiders and Employee Assistance Programme, we look out for each other
• Complete induction and a company that lets you grow and encourages development
• Financial education and loans
• Flexible working options
• A business striving to create an environment of inclusion so everyone can be their true self
• And more!

We’re passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates and values diversity. Bring your whole self to work regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We don’t want you to ‘fit’ our culture, we want you to enrich it.

We are committed to best practices in recruitment and undertake Basic Criminal Record Disclosures for candidates that are offered employment within our branches that undertake deliveries for British Gas. This check will only be undertaken after the acceptance of an ffer of employment.