Travis Perkins plc
Branch Manager Designate
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Branch Manager Designate
Branch Manager Designate – Develop Your Team & Drive Branch Success
The Branch Manager Designate role at Travis Perkins is one of the most challenging yet rewarding positions, offering a pivotal opportunity to shape the future of our business.
As Branch Manager Designate, you’ll support the delivery of our ‘Do What Matters’ strategy through:
- Operational excellence across all aspects of branch performance
- Frontline leadership, empowering your team to exceed customer expectations
- Profit-driven service delivery, while ensuring low cost, high efficiency
- Safety-first culture, protecting colleagues and customers at all times
What’s in it for you?
Travis Perkins invests in growth—your growth. Enjoy:
- Unrivalled career progression: Pathways to a permanent Branch Manager role, tailored leadership development training, and opportunities across our 5 leading group businesses and 1,400 outlets nationwide.
- Competitive rewards: Base salary + bonus potential, aligned to team and business targets. ‘We achieve together, so we earn together.’
- Strategic pension savings: Up to 10% matched pension contributions (conditions apply).
- Group discounts: 20% off at Toolstation, plus savings across Travis Perkins’ entire portfolio.
- Balance-focused culture: Sociable hourly rates, avoiding late-night work and prioritising work-life harmony.
- Wellbeing support: DigiCare mental health assistance, Cycle to Work scheme, access to our central Wellbeing Centre, healthy rewards, and physical activity incentives.
- ShareSave plans: Become a shareholder stakeholder by investing in group share schemes—own a slice of success.
- Everyday perks: Discounts on shopping, electronics, travel, holidays and more.
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Your role: Leading with purpose
Every day is dynamic—no two are the same. Your focus?
- Culture-building leadership: Coach and develop your team to deliver exceptional service while fostering a shared ‘one-team’ mindset.
- Customer-centric sales & advice: Use your product expertise to anticipate, understand and guide customers, maximising value through tailored solutions.
- Safety enforcement: Champion zero-tolerance on workplace risk—see, speak up, and stop harmful behaviour. Adhere to and inspire compliance with TP Safety Principles.
- Commercial acumen: Manage profit, costs, and operations strategically to achieve branch goals.
- Operational wisdom: Leverage your insights for growth, inspiring team buy-in and ensuring industry-leading branch performance.
What experience matters most?
Ideally, you’ll have builders’ merchant experience, but transferable skills across any sector will work if they include:
- Inspirational leadership – Can you motivate, mentor, and unite teams?
- Operational excellence – Do you manage workloads, resources, and efficiency proactively?
- Sales-first mindset – Comfortable building relationships, driving consultative sales, and spotting growth opportunities?
- Customer service expertise – Track record of delivering consistently excellent service, resolving issues diplomatically?
- Commercial fluency – A breath of commercial logic to advocate and execute for best sales and cost performance?
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Does this carve you out?
April in us? Our ideal DX is a leader and owner who thrives when stretched.
We want to see vibrant evidence of:
✔️ A natural authority figure, passionate about team development—building trust and driving high performance. ✔️ Resilience & enthusiasm, thriving in high-pressure, fast-paced environments with the energy to ACT. ✔️ Entrepreneurial curiosity: Do you spot opportunities, shape ideas, persuade stakeholders and deliver transformative outcomes? ✔️ Curious, ask “why?” – Do you problem-solve and challenge the status quo with fresh thinking? ✔️ Planned ambition – Is building your own career and owning your trajectory an ambition?
Our process: You’ll have a 6-mo probationary period, supported by a mentoring network and Cornerstones development programme. Ambition wins here—Step up, develop, scale.
Who we are – Spectacular work, spectacular people
Travis Perkins isn’t just Britain’s leading builders’ merchant (and UK’s Premier Top Employer since 2010). We’re Britain’s ‘Jurassic Park’}}-4-th at trade, equipped with 5 world-class businesses, 1,400+ stores, and 20,000 proud colleagues.
We’re committed to blazing trails. We know **equity drives belief—**equity in location, values, and opportunity.
Your ‘cheffiness’, background, talents, or dilemmas are the things that make us us. Just be you.
Get on our radar. Run something that matters with us—** infiltrate the vision. Lead it.** Make a difference. Make it well.
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