Trainee Branch Manager - Trade and Retail in Renfrew

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• A chance to move into management over the next 12 months, with proper training behind you.
• A privately owned business with multiple branches and a direct line to the board.
• A fast-moving business where your ideas are heard, tested and put into practice without red tape holding you back.

THE CLIENT
A business that helps tradespeople and homeowners across the west of Scotland get exactly the finished job they have in mind, with the design done in-house so customers can see the result before they commit to a single product. Tradespeople come back because the service is quick and knowledgeable, and homeowners walk in and leave with a plan they can picture.
It is privately owned and growing to a plan: branches already trading across the west of Scotland, several more due next year, and a team being built to run them. The owners are close to the business, so decisions are made quickly and a good idea doesn't get lost in layers of management. If you suggest something, it gets heard, tested and, if it works, adopted.
For you, that growth is the whole point. The current manager at this branch is moving on next year to open new sites, and the plan is for you to take over the branch you have been training in. It is a fixed plan with a manager's seat at the end of it, which is a very different proposition from a retail or counter job where the next step up depends on someone leaving.
THE ROLE
Start on the counter, and finish up running it. This is a structured development role at the Hillington branch, built to take you from trade counter sales to Branch Manager, learning alongside the manager whose branch you will inherit.
Day to day this is a trade counter first and foremost. You look after the people who walk through the door: tradespeople who know exactly what they need and want it quickly, and homeowners who need help working out what they want. You price orders, solve problems on the spot and build the kind of repeat business with local trades that keeps a branch busy.
You will also be trained in the company's in-house CAD bathroom design software, with six to eight weeks of full training, which lets customers see their finished room on screen and makes the sale a conversation rather than a push. Product knowledge is something the business teaches you, so what you bring is the ability to look after customers well. xgikmsk
As you grow into the job you take on more of what a manager does: running the counter, shaping how the branch trades and deciding where to put your energy to grow it. You have a direct line to the owners, who want to hear your ideas, so you are building a business with the people who own it rather than waiting for instructions from head office.
ABOUT YOU
You are probably working in a customer-facing sales job in home improvement or trade already, on a shop floor, a cou

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