Description:
Who are we?
Established in 1987, TradeTools is a proud family-owned Queensland company trusted to provide the best tools and equipment to trades and businesses. We employ hundreds of people in sites all over Queensland and Northern New South Wales.
What do we offer?
At TradeTools, we know that it‘s our people that set us apart, so we look after them with an excellent base salary AND commission (calculated on the stores performance) - both paid weekly! Plus superannuation and other usual holiday & sick leave benefits!
Last Financial Year, the average salary before tax & excluding Super was $75,000 for this role!
We offer additional incentives including employee focused competitions, social events, generous staff discounts and the opportunity to become an employee shareholder for long serving staff.
Our average length of employee service is over 8 years, surely a sign that we look after our people!
If you have energy and passion, we offer a challenging and rewarding career with real progression opportunities and job security. For example, ALL of our Managers have started in junior roles and progressed through the business - even into senior management roles!
We have a collaborative and supportive culture that rewards commitment, teamwork and achieving our goals. With an in-house training program, our aim is to support & grow confident, knowledgeable, service orientated, technical sales-people and support staff – not just order takers or plodders.
About the Role
Our goal is to provide industry leading, exceptional in store experience by finding solutions and offering helpful advice to our customers. Your commitment to consistently delivering highest standards of service, combined with understanding and knowledge of high-quality tools and equipment from the best trade and industrial focused brands will see us achieve this.
As a Full Time member of our team, you will work an 11-day fortnightly roster:
Week 1: Monday – Friday
Week 2: Monday – Saturday
We are closed every Sunday and National Public Holidays, and we don’t open late night Thursday.
Reporting to the Store Manager, the store persons responsibilities will include :
- Building relationships our suppliers and customers
- Liaising with internal departments, other stores and our Business Development Representatives to exceed customer expectations
- In-store inventory management
- Processing inbound stock
- Picking and Packing outbound stock
- Assembling items for display
- If the warehouse is up to date, then you're on the floor learning the ropes with our sales team!
Key to your success will be:
- A keen interest to build a strong and sustainable career
- Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
- Reliability, honesty and consistency
- Strong relationship building skills
- A willingness to learn and share
We’ll offer successful candidates a full time position supported by training and development to get you started on the right path. Then there is also ongoing training and development that will see you reach your full potential in a growing, family owned company that is well known for its commitment to excellent service to our customers, and offering excellent employment opportunities to our people.
Previous tool or trade experience is an advantage, but it’s not essential. If you have a strong consumer goods, sales or retail background, have been on the tools, are in the latter part of your career, or are just great at selling and have a technical mind, then we want to meet you!!!
You can see more of what we sell and do at our website, www.tradetools.com