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Apprentice Hire Negotiator

£competitive plus benefits

Northampton, Northamptonshire

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“If you have get-up-and-go and can-do spirit, we’ll provide the skills and knowledge.” 

Can you help us to be the best? We are looking for a Apprentice Hire Negotiator to join our Tool Hire Central Team in Northampton. Be part of a fantastic, friendly team, set sky-high standards for customer service  Drive great results for a key part of the business.

What you’ll do

Joining our family as a Apprentice Hire Negotiator in our busy Tool Hire Contact Centre, you’ll help our customers find the tools and plant equipment they need and arrange a hiring contract.  Ranging from anything from a digger to a lifting platform, your task is to source the equipment and ensure it is where our customers want it, when they want it.  

Brilliant with people, you’ll give great service to our customers and colleagues who like to deal direct with us at our Tool Hire Contact centre.  Either way you’ll use your excellent organisational skills and can-do attitude to ensure we do not disappoint.  

Is this you?

Great at quickly building rapport, you’ll use this to your advantage to negotiate on price with suppliers and customers alike, as well as to optimise each and every sales opportunity.  

We’re looking for the kind of person who is:  
  • A natural people person – great with customers, colleagues and suppliers.   
  • Fantastically well organised and able to juggle competing priorities. 
  • Great at negotiating. 
  • Willing to quickly learn about new products and systems. 
 
Limited knowledge of Tools & Plant Equipment? Don’t let this put you off, we offer a great induction programme and on the job coaching so you’ll develop this in no time! We will also put you through a Level 4 apprenticeship in Winning Sales!  


What’s in it for you?

You’ll be supported by some of the best training & development in the industry. Our impressive internal succession programme means, whatever it is you do with us,  it will be easy for you to learn, grow and develop across the Travis Perkins Group.

We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that grows as you grow with the company:
- Competitive performance related bonus
- Save-as-you-earn scheme
- Buy-as-you-earn scheme
- Contributory pension scheme
- Colleague discount across a variety of Group businesses including; 20% off at Wickes and 30% off at Tile Giant, plus special discounts across our Trade Merchanting businesses.

A bit about us

As the largest distributor of building materials in the UK, Travis Perkins has been helping to build Britain for over 200 years.
With over 26 businesses, 28,000 colleagues and more than 2,000 branches, stores and sites around the UK we believe we have the best people and the best place to work. Everyone works hard together to deliver results, but most importantly, have some fun along the way!



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