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Buyer, full time, Great Barford, Bedfordshire

Do you have experience of being a Buyer?  Are you skilled in sourcing and purchasing to ensure value for money, while ensuring supplies and services are maintained?  If so, we want to hear from you! 

THX are the tool hire experts for specialist contractors. Helping our customers thrive through delivering an unparalleled hire experience to mechanical, electrical, drylining, HVAC and SFS specialists since 2006.

We are looking for someone with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build effective relationships in order to drive individual performance.  

In this role you will: 

• Research purchasing options, including products and suppliers 
• Negotiate to secure contracts and prices that offer the best available value for THX 
• Ensure THX’s inventory and other supplies/services are maintained at an appropriate level 
• Develop and maintain understanding of THX’s business, its growth plans and market in order to ensure purchasing activity aligns with business requirements 
• Liaise with colleagues to ensure the receipt of new products and the adding of them to THX’s itinerary runs smoothly. 
• Prepare reports and communicate with management about offered prices on products and services to obtain final approval for purchases 
• Maintain close contact with colleagues in other departments to ensure new and/or changing purchasing requirements are identified at the earliest opportunity 
• Build and maintain good relationships with new and existing suppliers 
• Undertake value for money reviews of existing contracts and arrangements 
• Keep up to date with trends and innovations, regulation and new technology that can impact on the business. 

It is essential that you bring: 

• Experience of working as a Buyer role or similar 
• Experience of developing purchasing plans aligned with company requirements 
• Experience of purchasing both goods and services 
• Experience of analysing, reporting and presenting on purchasing activity 
• Strong negotiating skills 
• Experience of working to and supporting others in achieving KPIs 
• Proactivity and the ability to work on your own initiative 
• Strong IT skills.

NO AGENCIES PLEASE. 

Warehouse Operative, full time, Great Barford, Bedfordshire

THX are the tool hire experts for specialist contractors. Helping our customers thrive through delivering an unparalleled hire experience to mechanical, electrical, drylining, HVAC and SFS specialists since 2006.

In this role you will:

•             Re-stock our hire equipment in our warehouse and yard

•             Pick our hire equipment ready for loading

•             Load and unload our hire equipment

•             Ensure we maintain a clean, tidy and organised working environment

•             Provide support to our warehouse, workshop and driving teams as required, including occasional delivery work.

It is essential that you have:

•             Experience of cleaning, organising and tidying

•             Excellent verbal communication skills

•             Physical ability to load, unload and move cargo

•             A valid, clean UK Driver’s licence for manual vehicles.

Ideally, you will also have a forklift licence.

You will work from 9.00am to 7.30pm, Monday to Friday, and sometimes overtime is required to meet customer needs.  

NO AGENCIES PLEASE.

Do you have experience of logistics scheduling and have good knowledge of UK fleet and transportation legislation?  Are you skilled in solving logistical problems and have excellent organisational skills?  If so, we want to hear from you!

THX are the tool hire experts for specialist contractors. Helping our customers thrive through delivering an unparalleled hire experience to mechanical, electrical, drylining, HVAC and SFS specialists since 2006. 

Exceptional customer service is critical to our success and we pride ourselves on delivering and collecting on time, at least 98% of the time.

We are looking for someone with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build effective relationships in order to drive individual performance.

In this role you will:

• Perform the daily scheduling of deliveries and collections
• Plan the schedule to ensure an appropriate amount of work is in every day and sufficient notice is given to customers
• Re-direct colleagues to new jobs as required to meet urgent customer requirements
• Maintain vehicles in a safe and efficient operating condition
• Maintain complete and accurate service and maintenance records for the vehicle fleet
• To provide a professional, customer-focused service
• Ensure compliance with FORS
• Ensure compliance with CLOCS.
• Assist with other tasks or projects as they arise.

It is essential that you bring:

• Working knowledge of UK fleet and transport legislation
• Full UK driving license
• Experience of working to and supporting others in achieving KPIs
• Proactivity and the ability to work on your own initiative
• Strong IT skills.
  
  
  

This role does not require a vehicle operator licence.

Please send your CV with a covering letter to Steve Ward, HR Consultant, at [email protected]

NO AGENCIES PLEASE.

Full time, Great Barford, Bedfordshire

Are you ready to enable an established business with strong values to progress to the next level of its development and achieve ambitious growth aspirations? Are you an experienced Business Development or Sales Representative able to generate business from new customers and achieve challenging targets?  Are you seeking an opportunity to enable sales growth whilst delighting customers and embodying the values and principles of THX at every stage?

THX are the tool hire experts for specialist contractors. Helping our customers thrive through delivering an unparalleled hire experience to mechanical, electrical, drylining, HVAC and SFS specialists since 2006.

In this role you will:

• Achieve THX’s sales targets to achieve growth of the business while maintaining required levels of profitability on sales achieved
• Proactively build relationships with prospective customers
• Drive sales process from initial customer contact through to a fully developed life-long customer
• Visit customers and prospects in-person to develop relationships and deepen understanding of customer requirements and challenges
• Regularly and accurately report sales activity to ensure THX’s sales pipeline is reliable and complete
• Work with other sales and non-sales colleagues to ensure customer satisfaction is optimised, addressing issues, effectively managing expectations and taking responsibility for problem-solving
• Manage relationship with allocated key accounts to retain and develop existing customers

It is essential that you bring:

• Experience of business-to-business sales
• Experience of developing and maintaining a sales pipeline
• Experience of cold and warm-calling business customers
• Experience of closing sales in short and long sales cycles
• Ability to manage sales pipeline to ensure reporting is accurate and timely
• Ability to build relationships with prospective and existing customers
• Ability to understand and resolve issues with customers and colleagues
• Ability to manage long term relationships with customers to optimise retention and sales rates
• Strong attention to detail and organisational skills
• Strong administrative skills
• Skilled in prospect research and initial qualification
• Ability to engage with decision makers, build relationships and alter approach as required
• Proficiency in the use of the main Microsoft tools
• Personal drive with the ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
• Ability to be calm and focused under pressure
• Excellent communication skills – written and verbal
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills.

If you’re an enthusiastic team player with a flexible approach to solving problems for customers, we would like to hear from you!

Please send your CV with a covering letter to Steve Ward, HR Consultant, [email protected]

NO AGENCIES PLEASE.

Do you want to join a team that is transforming customer experience in a growing industry?  Do you have experience of providing excellent in-person customer service and delivering goods to customers?  If so, we want to hear from you!

THX are the tool hire experts for specialist contractors. Helping our customers thrive through delivering an unparalleled hire experience to mechanical, electrical, drylining, HVAC and SFS specialists since 2006.

In this role you will:

• Take pride in being responsible for ensuring customers receive the hire equipment they have ordered, or collected, on time and in a positive, friendly manner
• Ensure we meet our target of 98% on time delivery
• Resolve problems promptly, communicating with customers and colleagues as needed
• Load and unload THX’s hire equipment using appropriate lifting equipment and manual handling techniques
• Follow safe working processes while driving and loading/unloading
• Communicate with colleagues in other departments to ensure customer requirements are met
• Operate THX’s delivery IT system, updating the system data and taking pictures of equipment
• Raise issues and opportunities to improve the THX operations
• Identify sales opportunities while travelling and report these back to the sales team.

It is essential that you have:

• Experience of providing excellent customer service
• A valid, clean UK HGV Class 2 licence and up to date CPC
• Experience of driving and delivering goods
• Familiarity with IT and navigation systems.

Our shifts are from 5.30am to 4.00pm and 6.00am to 4.30pm, Monday to Friday, and sometimes overtime is required to meet customer needs. 

NO AGENCIES PLEASE.

Delivery Driver, driving 3.5 T drop side vans with tail lift. Monday – Friday shifts vary from 5.30am-4.00pm to 6.00am-4.30pm as required by THX.

Full time job and no weekend work. Candidates need to be physically fit and capable of moving heavy loads. Customer service is key to the role, which involves speaking to the customer on the phone before and at point of delivery. Also candidate must be IT Literate and able to use a smartphone for completing the deliveries and collections on.

People management skills are also beneficial due to the challenging nature of delivery to construction sites in sometimes limited time slots. Good quality PPE and uniform provided as well as access to free food and drink in the depot canteen!

If you would like to learn more about what is involved in being a Customer Delivery Operative at THX, click here.