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Assistant Branch Manager

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Posting date: 16 May 2024
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 14 June 2024
Location: Thetford, Anglia, IP24 1HS
Company: Meridian Business Support
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 52978007

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Summary

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.

We are looking for an Assistant Branch Manager to join our Thetford branch (IP24).


- Contracted to 42.5 hours per week
- Monday to Friday - 07:30 – 17:00
- No bank holiday working required
- 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) plus your birthday day off
- Pension scheme & Life assurance
- Great online training academy & Career progression


Our Assistant Branch Managers, are a key support to the Business Manager taking on the ownership of team management, monitoring & encouraging the daily sales activity, and covering day-to-day tasks to ensure the branch is consistently providing its best service to its customers.

We are looking for you to have team management experience, have a natural flair in relationship building and be able to drive people to achieve and exceed personal & business targets.

As an Assistant Branch Manager, you will need to consistently think outside the box to come up with new and innovative ideas to attract new customers and drive loyalty with live trading accounts.

Assistant Branch Manager - The Person:

- Full UK driving license is essential
- Electrical product knowledge is advantageous
- Strong sales and negotiation skills, including telesales and account management
- To be customer centric with a customer service background
- 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 communication skills (including persuasion and influencing)
- 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)
- Working knowledge of M3 across a range of branch processes and procedures


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

Suitable for: Assistant branch manager, supervisor, team leader, trade counter manager, Internal sales person, sales manager, branch assistant, trade team leader, account manager, electrical wholesale

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

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