Warehouse Operative
Furniture Village
Date: 12 hours ago
City: Guildford, England
Salary:
£29,000
-
£31,900
per year
Contract type: Full time
WAREHOUSE OPERATIVE
Raise your hand if you:
Furniture Village is a family business through and through. In the words of our founder and CEO Peter Harrison: “we employ nice people to sell nice furniture to nice customers”. We’ve been doing it since 1989 when we opened our first store in Abingdon. Fast forward to today and we have 58 stores on the map with more to come.
We source beautiful furniture from across the globe - handmade mattresses from Yorkshire, bespoke marble tables from Italy, precision engineered wardrobes from Germany - and we deliver them with love. Always, always putting the customer first.
What drives our success? Our people. The heartbeat of our business. We offer incredible opportunities for progression, fast tracking promotions and celebrating success.
A Little More About The Role
As a key team player, you will:
As a family business, it’s really important to us that everyone feels part of our family. We’re an equal opportunities employer and welcome everyone. Apply now for the next leap in your career and let’s talk. Together we can do wonderful things.
Raise your hand if you:
- Want to be part of a high energy team that works together and wins together
- Are meticulously organised, efficient and flexible
- Have instant rapport with customers and suppliers
- Confidently follow operational best practice
- Want to earn £29,000 plus bonus plus a host of industry leading perks
Furniture Village is a family business through and through. In the words of our founder and CEO Peter Harrison: “we employ nice people to sell nice furniture to nice customers”. We’ve been doing it since 1989 when we opened our first store in Abingdon. Fast forward to today and we have 58 stores on the map with more to come.
We source beautiful furniture from across the globe - handmade mattresses from Yorkshire, bespoke marble tables from Italy, precision engineered wardrobes from Germany - and we deliver them with love. Always, always putting the customer first.
What drives our success? Our people. The heartbeat of our business. We offer incredible opportunities for progression, fast tracking promotions and celebrating success.
A Little More About The Role
As a key team player, you will:
- Support the customer fulfilment function by administering all warehouse and distribution activities
- Manage all supplier deliveries and returns
- Act on any delivery incident reports
- Comply with all health and safety and GDPR procedures
- Genuine empathy and willingness to help
- Commitment and tenacity, owning issues and seeing them through to completion
- Punctuality, professionalism and pragmatism
- Confidence in problem solving
- A love of detail
- Accountability, holding high standards for yourself, your team and the business
- A true team player, one who loves to have fun and get the job done
- Competitive package: £29,000 plus bonus
- Bestin-class perks: pension scheme, 24/7 medical support, health insurance, up to 33 days’ holiday, Perkbox and staff discount
- Excellence as standard: we do things the right way, not the easy way
- A culture of rewards: generous bonus structure
- Real progression opportunities: we set you up for success and we love to fasttrack promotions
- Awardwinning business: the UK’s leading independent furniture retailer, voted an Outstanding Place to Work and the Supreme Champion Family Business of the Year
As a family business, it’s really important to us that everyone feels part of our family. We’re an equal opportunities employer and welcome everyone. Apply now for the next leap in your career and let’s talk. Together we can do wonderful things.
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