Job Description
Are you Ex-Military and looking for a career change?
Are you a trustworthy individual with transferable skills that you can apply here at UP?
This is an excellent opportunity to join Ultimate Products and change your career now!
Experienced Chauffeur
We are looking for a highly experienced Chauffeur to join Ultimate Products. In this position, you will be responsible for providing safe and reliable transportation services for our Board of Directors (in particular our CEO) and our Customers (VIP's) to various locations throughout the week and weekends.
Job Duties
The role requires the person to be very flexible in their working pattern and happy to complete work duties in the morning, evening, weekdays and weekends. They are also required to be very trust worthy, reliable and hardworking.
- Driving our Board Directors to meetings across the UK.
- Collecting and dropping off our customers from venues around Greater Manchester.
- Dropping off product samples, packages and other key documents to customers, suppliers and business partners to important timeframes
- Management of the vehicles to ensure they are roadworthy and compliant
- Completion of timesheets, diary management and expenses.
The UP story
From a spark in Oldham to a global success. We're the cogs in the retail machine, designing, manufacturing and distributing innovative branded products at the best prices to a mass market. Our brand portfolio includes Salter, Beldray and Progress. Each has a reputation for high quality and on trend design, and they're faithful household names - some that even your grandparents love.
Ultimate Products has been bringing branded kitchen and laundry products to the market since 1997. Now a public limited company, our annual turnover exceeds £150 million. We've established strong working relationships with Internationally recognised retailers, including Tesco, Asda and Primark, filling the shelves of the world's favourite stores across 38 countries. Despite our continued growth, strong corporate values remain at UP's core; we are committed to supporting local charities and initiatives to give back to the community that helped build us.
Our people are a key driver to our success, and we are proud of creating an environment that enables our colleagues to thrive both professionally and personally, which is why we recently invested £2M in a brand-new office at our Oldham headquarters. With newly implemented employee mental health and environmental committees, we are dedicated to empowering our people to have a voice and share their views. We recognise how important it is to recharge, which is why we've also introduced complimentary yoga and boxing sessions this year. In a 2022 survey, 84% of our employees said that they would recommend Ultimate Products as a great place to work, a figure that we're hoping to improve even further in 2023!
Person Requirements
- A minimum of 3 years' driving experience at an executive level, ideally completing a similar role at a similar level of service
- Must have a valid driving license and a clean driving record
- Able to follow established driving routes within the Manchester area and obey traffic laws
- Good communication skills, well presented and high customer service satisfaction
- Reliable, trustworthy and capable of basic administrational skills
- Execute general car maintenance duties such as checking tires oil and fluid levels
We care about your progression:
- Salary 32k-34k including overtime
- Ongoing salary reviews as you progress your career
We invest in our people:
- New £2M state of the art office in Oldham
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays after your first 12 months
- Access to wellbeing support, including 24-hour access to Employee Assistance Helpline
- Charity, Environmental and ESG committees, created to encourage positive change within the company and our wider community
- Every UP employee is authorised to complete a day of paid charity work volunteering
- High levels of employee satisfaction- Glassdoor rating of 4\* and above
- Babylon virtual GP service
- Employee Save as you Earn Scheme
Job Type: Permanent
Salary: £32,000.00-£34,000.00 per year