Working at the Spray People Group
Please scroll down for career opportunities at The Spray People Group, The Spray Nozzle People, The Professional Sprayers People, The Safety Shower People, The Air Nozzle People and The Fulfilment People.
Our entire company philosophy is based on having good people with the right attitude. We believe the following facts about business:
- People buy from people
- Relationships are important in business
- The rush to automate interactions with customers comes at a heavy price
- A customer and a supplier should always be able to talk to a human being
- Having good people is the most important strategic strength of any business
- Finding and retaining good people is the biggest challenge all businesses face
This is why we have the word “people” in all our companies’ names.
Current opportunities
The Fulfilment People Commercial & General Manager – Warehouse
- Leading, motivating and supporting a team of around 12 warehouse staff
- Creating a positive, respectful and high-performing working environment
- Actively attracting new business and customers, identifying growth opportunities
- Building and maintaining strong, long-term customer relationships
- Overseeing the smooth running of the warehouse operation
- Working closely with senior stakeholders to support the company’s continued growth
- Reporting directly to the Managing Director to make strategic growth decisions
- Working with the marketing team to help promote our message to prospects
- Overall responsibility for the profitable growth of the business
- Proven people management experience – you value, develop and support your team
- A background in the logistics or 3PL business, with confidence in winning and retaining customers
- Warehouse experience (you won’t be hands-on in the warehouse, but you will need to understand how it all works in a busy 3PL business and may need to muck in when things are really busy!)
- Experience in solving international customs and logistics issues
- Strong relationship-building and communication skills
- A practical, approachable and caring leadership style
- Degree educated is preferable but not essential
- Someone who fully buys into and can embody our company’s 6 core values (this is essential): https://youtube.com/playlist…
- A good understanding of warehouse management software (preferably MintSoft)
- £40,000 – £50,000 salary, depending on experience
- Private healthcare (after 1 years’ service)
- A supportive and growing company where your contribution really matters
- A friendly, down-to-earth team and a leadership role with real autonomy
- Email: emma@spray-nozzle.co.uk
About the company
Why do we exist?
The Spray People Group’s purpose is to take expert care of the nuts and bolts so that, together with you, we can make the world better.
All our businesses do “little bits” (nuts and bolts) by which we mean we are not involved in anything grand and huge like feeding people, generating power, or curing diseases. Our “bit” is small and often not even thought about by the public. But those little bits are still really important. We aim to do our little bit very well. In doing this very well we make the complex, difficult, and hassle causing jobs simple. We take care of it, so our customers and suppliers don’t need to think about that bit anymore. This gives them freedom to get on with doing the great things they want to achieve. This frees them to get on with making the world a better place. We see ourselves as a small cog in a truly mighty machine.
How do we add value?
Our mission is to be in it together with our people so they can be in it together with you
It’s all about the people. By “in it together” we mean having strong collaborative and mutually beneficial relationships. Business is not about profit any more than living is about breathing. Yes, we need to breath to survive just as a business needs profit to survive but it is a grave error to confuse something like breathing with the actual meaning of life. We need to breath to live, we need to make profit to survive, but we don’t exist to breath anymore than we exist to make profit. There is far more to life than this! Just as with life in general, what makes business meaningful is the relationships we create and nurture. These relationships may be with customers, suppliers, employees, or wider society. A healthy relationship requires mutual respect and “give and take”. Both parties must benefit from the relationship but, more than that, for truly good relationships both parties must have shared dreams.
What we do?
What we do as a business is things like sell spray nozzles or deliver 3PL services. Our values, however, dictate what we actually do when going about these tasks. They govern the everyday behaviours that allow us to be “in it together”. As long as we hold to these values we will create the necessary conditions to achieve our “in it together” mission which in turn will ensure we fulfil our purpose.
Our values
- CURIOSITY – We seek to understand where others are coming from and what the underlying causes of problems are. Through this curiosity we find that solutions often manifest
- COLLABORATION – We work in genuine partnership with others for a mutual good rather than simply serving ourselves.
- CREATIVITY – We think for ourselves, independently and use our brains to solve problems
- CARE – We treat others with compassion and empathy
- CALMNESS – We deal with problems with grace and without fuss
- ACCOUNTABILITY – We take responsibility for our actions, words, and commitments.
