We’re looking for a Hire Manager to join the team based at our stunning office in Central London. The role of Hire Manager is a hands on, commercial and a results driven manager who will have a passion for coaching and developing teams, delivering excellent customer service and will role model our Company values.
Managing the commercial team in Central London, this role will also be responsible for developing and promoting the Company’s hire business, to include our full range of products and services, ensuring the Division’s Customer Charter is followed. The Hire Manager will be target driven with a key focus on order winning activity.
Working alongside projects and service teams in the region and the Building Service functions, the Hire Manager will promote an environment of effective teamwork and communication.
Job Advert closing: 16 June 2023.
What’s in it for me
- Role based: London Euston, NW1 2DX
- Salary: £45,000 - £49,000 p.a. plus commission
- Contract type: Permanent
- Annual leave: 25 days + bank holidays
- Flexible approach to working hours
Role responsibilities
Accountable for the delivery of targets for the year including contract value, order numbers, opportunities as well as other commercial KPI’s
Provide coaching, mentoring and motivation to drive towards the achievement of the commercial areas objectives and KPIs, to ensure performance is maximised
Support Area Hire Managers generate orders by supporting them throughout the customer journey, including assisting with writing tenders, co-attending Customer visits as appropriate etc.
Responsible for working with the hire centres to ensure credit control queries are resolved and customers are paying on time, in line with company guidelines and procedures
Ensure the commercial team is maximising added value for every opportunity through promoting the full range of Building Services.
Benefits & Opportunities
- Catering canteen and gym within the building
- Training and development training such as Commercial Excellence
- You will be provided with a company car, laptop and mobile phone. We are also happy to talk flexible working
- A generous annual leave entitlement of 25 days plus public bank holidays, and the business is closed annually during the Christmas period. We can also buy up to 5 days more annual leave annually
- Reward packages including annual bonus and length of service awards
- With family friendly policies, access to contributory pension, life assurance scheme and our employee benefits platform with a range of discounts and cashbacks at your favourite retailers, health clubs and gym memberships
- All colleagues have an opportunity to give back to local communities with an annual Volunteering Day off
- A wide range of health & wellbeing services including Mental Health First Aiders to support you to be at your best inside and outside work
- There is also great opportunity for career progression within Portakabin. Roughly one third of our roles are filled by internal candidates!
Our Ideal Candidate
We are looking for someone who has:
- Confidence and a great personality
- Strong commercial experience, including face to face B2B sales experience and business development
- B2B sales experience in a customer facing role including presentation and negotiation skills
- Technical sales experience in a construction related industry is desirable although not essential
- Full U.K driving licence.
Even if you do not match all of our ‘ideal’ criteria we would still be very keen to receive your CV as we love developing our people and may feel that you could be developed into this role.
About Portakabin
As innovators in the science of building, we provide modular buildings for hire and sale, as well as supplying refurbished buildings and construction site accommodation. We deliver building solutions for organisations of any size, in sectors ranging from manufacturing, education and health to transport, utilities and construction.
Portakabin remains in the ownership of the York based Shepherd family and now employs more than 2,000 people across ten European countries.
As an equal opportunities employer, Portakabin is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective colleagues. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives and hire great people to build talented and diverse teams.
We are committed to making reasonable adjustments throughout the application, recruitment, and onboarding processes for candidates that require additional support and/or adjustments to be made.
