Location: St Kilda
Employment Type: FP - Full-Time Permanent
Department: St Kilda
About us With a National network of over 100 branches, Middy’s is the largest independent electrical wholesaler in Australia and has been in business for over 90 years. Our size and geographic diversity provide career options in broad and diverse employment areas throughout Australia. Supported by our core values, our focus on customer service and innovation is leading the industry in staff development and customer satisfaction.
The Role: We are seeking an ambitious and motivated person to provide operations leadership to the team in our St Kilda Branch. You will be passionate about building a strong, customer-focused team that keeps raising the standards in delivering excellent customer service. This means leading from the front, showing initiative, and being actively involved in all aspects of Branch operations. Become a key driver of branch improvements and efficiencies. This is not a role for people that like managing from a computer in an office.
Duties include:
Manage day-to-day operations of the Branch
Ensure the right disciplines and structures are in place to drive consistency, cost effectiveness, and practical outcomes.
Ability to build long-term relationships with customers
Successful and proven leadership skills
Ability to coach and influence team members with exceptional service that grows profitable relationships
Support training and development
Ability to make sound decisions and resolve problems
Maintain & improve the profitable sales of the Branch
Analysing daily, weekly, monthly reports and working with the team to action and follow up tasks
Aim to increase the benchmark GP%
Oversee purchasing & inventory control
Credit Control and recovery of outstanding debt.
Security & maintenance of the premises, equipment & vehicles
Liaison with other Branches & Branch Support Centre
Balancing & banking daily cash receipts
Ensure company compliance standards are followed
Some lifting involved
A willingness to continue training & development is essential.
Fortnightly Pay Cycle
The successful candidate will be required to undergo a pre-employment medical including Drug & Alcohol screening.
Middy’s is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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