Description

The Assistant Branch Manager acts as first‑line support to the Branch Manager, leading and supporting the team to deliver success. Responsibilities include providing an excellent customer experience, maintaining strong relationships with local customers and suppliers, processing orders by phone and in person, picking items for collection or delivery, and delivering a wide variety of products using a 3.5 t Box Van when required.

Additional duties involve checking incoming stock deliveries, putting stock away in the appropriate area, maintaining stock levels through regular counts, performing branch administration such as processing purchase memos and handling documentation, and prioritising health and safety for yourself and colleagues.

• Support the Branch Manager and lead the team to achieve targets.
• Deliver excellent customer service and maintain supplier relationships.
• Process customer orders via phone and in‑person.
• Pick items for collection or delivery and operate a 3.5 t Box Van when needed.
• Receive, put away, and regularly count stock to maintain accurate inventory levels.
• Handle branch administration tasks, including purchase memos and document management.
• Prioritise health and safety and ensure a safe working environment.
• Provide flexible support across departments, including occasional warehouse duties.

Requirements

Required skills include a flexible approach to support various departments, previous experience in a builder’s merchant or building materials (preferred), supervisory experience in a retail or merchant setting, a full manual clean driving licence for van deliveries, and forklift experience (training provided if not).

• Demonstrate supervisory experience in a retail or merchant environment.
• Hold a full manual clean driving licence; forklift training provided if required.

Benefits

Jewson Partnership Solutions, a leading building materials distributor in Northern Europe, is seeking an Assistant Branch Manager for its Scunthorpe hub. The role offers a fulfilling work environment with ample career growth opportunities, a competitive salary, staff discount, life assurance, and 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays). Working hours are 07:00–17:00, Monday to Friday.

The role comes with a comprehensive benefits package, including a Pension plan with Legal & General life assurance (a lump‑sum death benefit of 2× basic salary, increased to 4× with a 4% pension contribution), WorkPerks discounts, Aviva Digicare+ health services, voluntary salary‑sacrifice schemes, employee discount, referral programme, wellbeing centre, and a new reward and recognition programme.

Training + Development

Interview process

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