Service Delivery Mate Durham, England
Job description
Location - Durham
Salary - £28,504 + Benefits
Closing Date - 19/05/2023
Job Details
We're Bensons for Beds! We put Sleep Wellness™ at the heart of everything we do. With 100 years of experience in sourcing and manufacturing the best quality beds, frames and mattresses, at Bensons we understand how to design the perfect, tailored sleep experience. We have 170+ locations and employ c 1800 colleagues. Under new ownership of Alteri Investors we have an ambitious 3 year plan to grow the business further and achieve our mission of being the market leading bed retailer with a strong omnichannel presence
We are looking for new employees to work alongside our Drivers in our Home Delivery Vehicles. You will be helping to deliver our products to our Customers.
Your key responsibilities as a Delivery Driver's Mate will include:
- Complete your deliveries on time, to schedule and most importantly ensuring your customers are left happy.
- Be friendly and helpful throughout.
- Keep your customer informed by calling ahead.
- Deliver and assemble furniture in the customer’s home.
- Support an environment and culture within Concorde where the Customer is firmly at the centre of everything that we do.
- Availability to work one in three Saturdays is essential. Rest day will be allocated on the Monday prior.
The Skills Required
- Ability to lift and manoeuvre heavy items of furniture with manual handling experience
- Desirable experience of using a PDA but not essential
The Benefits
In return for your contribution to the team’s performance, we offer a competitive salary of £27,680.64pa plus all these extra benefits:
- Employee discount scheme for Bensons products
- Medicash - cashback options for Health and wellbeing services (dental, optical, virtual GP, other healthcare services and more)
- Unum Income Protection - for peace of mind if you’re off work long term due to illness
- Pension scheme – provided by Legal & General
- Discounted Gym membership
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Annual leave buy & sell scheme – you can top up your holiday entitlement or sell unused days to suit you
- Enhanced maternity and adoption leave with support up to 30 weeks
- Access to Retail Trust services (guidance and support on retail issues, mental health, wellbeing & financial topics)
- Learning and development programmes to gain new knowledge and skills
- Career progression – access to internal opportunities to build your career within Bensons for Beds
- Long service awards and ‘Love to Shop’ voucher rewards to spend as you like
(*qualifying periods apply)
If you love working with a great team, engaging with a variety of challenges, growing your skills and developing new ones then click now to apply to join us!
There is a brief online application process to complete, to tell us about yourself, answer some questions and confirm your eligibility. We’ll reply to you asap!