Depot Manager: Lead Team, Grow Sales & Service in Newcastle upon Tyne

We are looking for a Depot Manager to join us at Civils & Lintels in Stoke. Civils & Lintels' main aim is to consistently exceed our customers’ expectations. We know our people are at the heart of ensuring this happens, which is why we are always on the lookout to recruit the best around. Whether it’s civils engineering or lintels, our customers rely on the in-depth knowledge of our depot teams, so we make it our priority to provide the best training to ensure our colleagues are able to offer their expert advice and support.

Your role, as a Depot Manager, will be to ensure your customers receive a brilliant service when using your depot. You will need to not only manage but also motivate your team to ensure that they are able to help meet depot targets. There will be plenty of opportunities for you to build on sales and profits, whilst also generating new customers. You will also need to make sure that the depot is running effectively by managing stock, properly utilising your vehicles, and ensuring all employees have completed the mandatory training to make sure it is a safe place to work.

Here’s what you can expect to do as a Depot Manager with Civils & Lintels:

• Ensuring your customers receive brilliant customer service
• Managing your team well to get the best out of each person
• Building on depot sales and profits
• Having overall accountability for making sure that the depot maintains high operating standards
• Training your team, and ensuring their product knowledge is relevant and up to date
• Managing your stock effectively and properly utilising your vehicles
• Ensuring all mandatory training is completed and your depot is a safe place to work
• Managing and coordinating the depot stocktake twice a year

We realise that you are more than just a CV and embracing everyone’s individuality is what makes us great as a team. We can give you plenty of training and equip you with the tools that you’ll need to succeed as a Depot Manager, but you will need to be someone with previous experience of managing and developing people and be great at it.

Let us tell you what’s in it for you:

• 23 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Company performance bonus scheme
• A contributory pension scheme
• Company funded Life Assurance
• A generous colleague discount scheme
• A range of training and development programmes to help you progress your career

If you’re in the trade or have ever tackled a home improvement project, you’ve probably heard of us. We’re the Huws Gray Group and we’re made up of a number of brands, including Huws Gray, Huws Gray Plant & Tool Hire, Civils & Lintels, The Timber Group, PDM, NDI and Anglia Tool Centre to name a few. Up and down the UK, our branches are serving and supporting our local communities with all their building material needs, but we couldn’t do this without the right people, so why not join us?