Home Leisure Direct is the UK’s leading multi-award winning games room retailer providing products such as pool tables, arcade machines, table tennis, football tables, pinball machines, jukeboxes & snooker tables to the home and commercial market. We are based in Elberton, Near Thornbury, North Bristol just 10 minutes from Cribbs Causeway by car.
We are always looking for talented people to join our team. If you'd like to be considered for any future roles that become available please email careers@homeleisuredirect.com, including a covering letter and your CV.
Important: Our showrooms are based in a rural location with no public transport, therefore a means of reliable transport is essential. Please check our location (BS35 4AL) and your potential commute before applying for the role (How to Find Us). Our Main Office and Warehouse are located in Avonmouth.
Home Leisure Direct is the UK’s leading Games Room Retailer, based in Elberton, Near Thornbury, North Bristol just 10 minutes from Cribbs Causeway by car.
We market products to both consumers and businesses looking to spend anything from £200 up to £20,000 on games room products such as pool tables, arcade machines, table tennis, football tables, air hockey, jukeboxes & snooker tables.
Our customers range from families looking to make their homes more fun, to celebrity customers, and interior designers, so excellent product knowledge and a creative marketing approach is essential.
We have 3 showrooms situated near Thornbury, with our head office and warehouse being based in Avonmouth. Our team is constantly growing and we're now 47 people strong spread over a range of departments - Marketing, Accounts, Operations, Sales, Customer Service, Warehouse, Deliveries and Logistics.
Sales Executive - Full-Time - Bristol Based
Rate of Pay: £23,000 to £24,000 per annum Basic Salary. £30k to £35k OTE.
About Home Leisure Direct:
We are the UK’s largest games room retailer, supplying both direct to consumer, trade customers and commercial hospitality venues. Over the last eight years we have won over 20 national awards for our website, service, and business results, underlining our excellent performance in our sector. We employ over 50 staff based in our Showroom and Head Office. We have experienced huge growth over the last two years, doubling our sales performance. It’s a very exciting time to be part of a successful and ambitious company.
The Role:
You will be joining our vibrant and successful sales team based in our showrooms in North Bristol. You’ll be educating and enthusing about our products to interested customers who have made contact with you. We’ve built an amazing portfolio of the best pool tables, arcade machines, jukeboxes, shuffleboards and other games room must haves in the world. We're suppliers of pool tables and table tennis tables for live competitions on Sky TV and are exclusive UK retailers of the top brands in the industry.
Sales enquiries come through to us by phone, live chat, email, or visit our showrooms. All the customers come to you, mostly having visited our multi-award winning website, so there is no cold calling needed, all warm leads that are super keen to buy from you.
You will be fully trained by our management team on using our sales process to ensure you match the right product to the customer's needs, using excellent product knowledge. We don't expect you to be an expert when you start! There is a lot to learn about these specialist products, so we will spend hours training you on everything you need to know. Then you will be an expert.
You will take time to understand your customer's project, where will the product be going, who will be using it and how. Then you can present the customer with a number of options and explain the features and benefits of our incredible range. Our customers are both buying for themselves for their own homes, but also businesses fitting out company games rooms, student accommodation, pubs, bars, holiday parks, bowling alleys etc.
Future promotion opportunities:
We are looking for keen enthusiastic individuals who love selling. We are a fast-growing company with a preference to promote to our management team from within - the majority of our senior management team started their careers as part of our sales team and have grown their careers from there. If you have the ability to connect with customers and close sales you can look forward to a potentially highly successful career within our business.
Skills and experience you must have:
- Be articulate and able to speak clearly and with confidence
- Be able to retain a lot of product information and explain this to customers
- Comfortable with using computer software to manage phone calls, recording customer enquiries on our system, reading spreadsheets with stock information
If you don't have these attributes please don't apply.
Additional skills that would be beneficial:
Track record of strong sales performance in a similar environment
Experience of using the products we sell
Experience using Apple Macs, and SalesForce and/or other CRM systems
Employee Benefits:
We recognise the hard work from our team in a number of ways, setting achievable targets for the team and rewarding strong individual performance. Highlights of our rich scheme include bonuses for -
- Achieving your personal sales target
- Company achieving our sales target
- Super bonus scheme for performance over persona target each month
- Excellent customer reviews
- Selling additional accessory products to customers
- Bonus scheme for hitting yearly target
Additionally we make provide a range of benefits for all employees -
- 21 days holiday, plus an extra day off for your birthday (and a nice cake too!)
- huge range of discounts including cinema tickets, car insurance, phone insurance, shopping vouchers, holiday vouchers, restaurants
- team events, such as bowling, go-karting, 5-a-side football, parties and social events
- staff discounts - you can buy anything for cost price
Working Days/Hours:
This is based on working a 40 hour week, starting at 8:30 am, finishing at 5:30 pm. You will be rostered to work 5 days out of 7 each week, which will include some Saturdays and Sundays. You will be able to work from home on some days if you wish.
Summary:
This is a fantastic opportunity for a driven, enthusiastic, salesperson with a desire to progress their career. We have an incredibly successful award-winning team who will welcome you with open arms and help you all the way.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £23,000.00-£35,000.00 per year
Pool Table Delivery Driver - Temporary
Rate of pay: £12.50 per hour
The role:
Join our awesome team of 10 existing team members delivering and installing exciting home games room products, ranging from slate bed pool tables, pinball machines, jukeboxes to arcade machines.
The role is great fun, but yet very physically demanding. You will be required to have a full clean UK driving licence. The job role will usually involve installing and delivering products nationwide. As we cover a substantial geographical area, we schedule an installation day of 4 to 5 appointments. There may be some days where you will be helping the warehouse team.
You must be prepared for some long days and heavy lifting.
Daily tasks will include:
- Installing and delivering products to customers homes and into commercial businesses
- Delivering market-leading customer service
- Driving
- Stock organisation and picking
- A keen eye for detail and personal organisation
- Willingness to learn about the products
- Problem-solving
Working Days/Hours:
This is based on working a 40 hour week, starting at 5am from our Avonmouth Distribution Centre. You will work Monday to Friday each week. We don't operate on weekends.
Rate of Pay: £12.50 per hour
Significant Overtime available: £500 per month overtime, based on our current working hours
Some days can take longer than others. On average you will generally work 10 hours overtime per week. We try to balance the runs so you don't get two long days back to back.
Excellent Tips: £100 per week, but cannot be guaranteed!
Our customers appreciate the work you do installing their new prized possession, so they will often give tips to the drivers. But bear in mind this is at their own discretion, so cannot be guaranteed.
Summary:
We are seeking an enthusiastic and capable person who shares our passion for delivering excellence.
How to apply:
Please email harriet@homeleisuredirect.com, including a covering letter and your CV.
