Depot Coordinator

Depot Coordinator (with driving duties)

Bestway Group - Edmonton

£32,900 a year

Driver 7.5t Driver required with C1 Licence, Driver CPC and Tachograph Card - Enfield

The role as Depot Coordinator (with driving duties) is a varied and very rewarding position within the Bestway Wholesale family.

Reporting to the Contract Account Controller, you will be operating in Bestway Enfield for the Contract sales team. Whilst providing administrative support to ensure the compliance of our 7.5t trucks and drivers, you will also be involved in preparing customer orders for our wholesale customers and seeing these orders are delivered as efficiently as possible.

The role involves collaborating with the sales team, customers and colleagues to provide excellent customer service. With a customer centric approach, you should be passionate about putting the customer first, ensuring that exceptional levels of customer service are provided at all times.

Working well as part of a team, skilful time management and organisational skills will be some of your strengths, as well as excellent communication skills, and the ability to work with confidence. You should also have the ability to work creatively, bringing fresh approaches to solving problems.

Wide range of benefits available, including bonus and death in service.

Key responsibilities of this role, amongst others, will include: -

• Preparing orders: Raising customer invoices, planning deliveries and overseeing loading of trucks.
• Driving duties: Delivering orders to Wholesale customers, including ensuring payments are taken for the orders and correct paperwork is issued.
• Administrative support for O Licence compliance: Ensure the trucks maintenance timetable is followed and any scheduled work is carried out and documented in both digital and paper files.
• Document driver CPC: Collection of driver CPC information for O Licence for Driver Files.
• Cash handling: collecting, counting and banking (in depot) of customer payments for orders delivered.

About you:

• You will have the relevant licences for a 7.5 tonne driver including a C1 licence, CPC and a Tachograph card (essential)
• Good level of written and spoken English (essential)

• You will have fantastic organisational and time management skills (essential)
• You enjoy interacting with customers with experience of working in a customer-facing role (desired)
• Cash, card and cheque handling experience (desired)
• A strong understanding of WTD and drivers hours’ requirements (desired)
• A strong understanding of maintenance requirements for HGVs (desired)

Salary for the role is £32,900 with OTE £34,100

For the last 40 years, we at Bestway have been passionate about meeting our customers’ needs and working as a team to grow our business. If you’re looking for an opportunity to make an impact on an ambitious company that’s built its way up from humble beginnings, this is the role for you.

Bestway Group is a huge multinational with interests in banking, cement, financial services, real estate and healthcare. Not bad for what began as a small food store in West London in the 1960s. Today, Bestway Group trades from 62 warehouses under the Bestway and Batleys names and enjoys an 18% market share in the grocery wholesale sector.