Benefits of Working With Us
Our employee wellbeing is a top priority for all at GPG. We offer a number of benefits to help support our people.
Annual Leave
Great holidays, 25 days annual leave.
Social Calendar
Our yearly social calendar promotes employee wellbeing within GPG.
Pension
Our pension scheme is available to all who have completed their probation period.
Diversity and Inclusion
This year, we worked with DCU Access Program, BITC Placement Program and continued our existing programs with Youth Outreach and St.John of Gods.
Open roles
As part of the GPG Marketing Team, the Marketing Assistant will primarily provide admin support to the Marketing Team. We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Marketeer, with a great eye for detail and is excited about working with a dynamic, creative Marketing team.
Role and Responsibilities
- Support the marketing team with all brand marketing initiatives.
- Support the marketing team with CRM, keeping the database of stockist up to date, preparing stockist communication and working with the digital marketing team to distribute.
- Co-ordinate and distribute company merchandise and marketing materials including sample management.
- Act as the key point of contact for stockist queries, merchandise requests, and sample fulfilment, ensuring timely and accurate responses to all inquiries.
- Support the Marketing Manager with public relations management, liaising with agencies, proofing, and writing copy and co-ordinating creative.
- Campaign Coordination: Assist in coordinating marketing campaigns from conception to execution. This may include liaising with internal teams, external vendors, and partners to ensure seamless delivery and alignment with objectives.
- Keep up to date with industry trends and competitor activity
- Support GPG Retail teams with in-store events, such as Colour Days, Trade Days, and promotions
- Contribute to digital content, online Live Chat, and customer communications
- Provide general marketing administrative support and contribute to other marketing initiatives as they arise.
- B-Corp
– Embed B-Corp principles & values across the business
– Create a workplace culture dedicated to fostering diversity and inclusion, ensuring equal opportunities for all employees
Knowledge Skills and Experience
– 1+ years Marketing experience.
– Marketing Degree or or other relevant qualification is essential.
– Excellent organisational and administration skills with an eye for attention to detail
– Proficient in MS office with strong literacy and communication skills
– Ability to manage different projects at the same time
Location and Travel Expectations
This is a full-time position based in GPG Head Office in Celbridge.
GPG is committed to a workplace environment that promotes diversity and inclusion and creates an open and inclusive culture where everyone feels valued.
As part of the Warehouse team the warehouse operatives responsibility is be to pick, wrap, ship and deliver all stores products in line with store, production and customer requirements.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Pick and complete sales orders, wrap deliveries, complete warehouse paperwork for each dispatch.
- Use of PPT and Forklift to complete order
- Unload, record and put away raw materials stocks and deliveries
- Keep a clean and safe working warehouse
- Communicate and co-operate with fellow staff members
- Comply with company rules and standards of work
- Processing all orders through our system for the following day deliveries
- Assisting with tinting of paint
- Assist with the checking of orders that have been invoiced out to ensure that the correct products are invoiced vs what the customer has ordered.
- Assist in maintaining live stock levels and carrying out regular stock takes
- Assist with all general warehouse duties as required by the Warehouse Manager
- Input of dockets, goods in and out, through the system.
- Ensure all Health and Safety standards are adhered to at all times in line with statutory legislation and
- Company policy, addressing any safety concerns as they arise.
- Ensure all company policies and procedures relating to security of company stock is strictly adhered to at all times.
- Ensuring key materials have on time supply to Paint Plant & Paint filling areas
- Receipt of deliveries & tankers
- Maintenance of yard & Raw Material
- Disposition of obsolete, defect, returned materials including external waste contractors
- Maintenance of waste, compactors and skips
- Maintenance of outside storage facilities
- 5S (Housekeeping)
- B-Corp
– Embed B-Corp principles & values across the business
– Create a workplace culture dedicated to fostering diversity and inclusion, ensuring equal opportunities for all employees
Skills / Experience Desired:
- Electric pallet truck and forklift truck experience.
- High attention to detail
- Excellent product knowledge
- Experience in tinting processes
- Overall knowledge of the paint tinting process
- Knowledge and use of all equipment on site
- Fully flexible with working hours
Person Specification
- Team worker
- Strong communicator
- Good interpersonal skills / the ability to build strong relationships
- Have the ability to implement existing procedures in a positive manner
- Have a strong sense of ownership and responsibility
- Must be prepared to work as part of a team and assist or carry out other duties during periods of high workload, sickness, holidays and emergencies
- Undertake any other duties as requested by the Warehouse Manager
GPG is committed to a workplace environment that promotes diversity and inclusion and
creates an open and inclusive culture where everyone feels valued
The role of the Retail Store Manager is to to coach and develop store teams through strong leadership, to ensure delivery of retail objectives
Key Accountabilities
- To deliver store sales within budget, by leading a resourced, motivated and engaged team
- To ensure that the retail strategy developments are implemented in the Store and fully communicated to and understood by the team
- To fully understand commercial performance, driving sales and maximising margins and profits.
- Achievement of objectives, sales targets & budgets
- Reporting on delivery of sales targets and activities
- Responsibility for Health & Safety on site ensuring all Health and Safety standards are adhered to at all times in line with statutory legislation and Company policy.
addressing any safety concerns as they arise.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership
- Contribute to the development of GPG strategic direction
- Work closely with the Head of Retail & head of marketing to ensure marketing strategies and understood and being met
- Ensure store fully resourced to ensure levels of customer service are maintained and
targets achieved - Deliver effective succession plans throughout the team in order to deliver progression
and manage vacancies in the store - Develop the team through proactive personal development plans which are formally reviewed annually and informally on an ongoing basis as and when required
- Conduct exit interviews at Store level for all leavers to identify key areas of risk
- Through coaching and leadership ensure that the mission statement, values, business objectives and retail objectives are understood and fulfilled in the Store
- Identify and manage poor performance as appropriate
- Utilise wider resources e.g. Human Resources, Head of Sales, Marketing team, GPG Technical team to optimise results
- Protect and manage GPG brands
- Manage customer and vendor relationships
- Drive training and development for store members and overall team
Customer Service
- Proactively manage store mystery shopper reports striving for sustainable improvement
- Talk to customers directly to gain an understanding of their experience, product requests, technical and colour requirements etc
- Monitor and drive the delivery of Customer experience in store always leading by example
- Review and reshape in store Colour Consultancy offering
- Manage and reduce risk in store
Commerciality
- Ensure accurate space and product strategy to drive sales
- Drive out performance of sales budgets through analysing relevant reports and coaching the Store team
- In conjunction with Head of Retail, develop and roll out suite of programmes for consumer, Interior Designers and Painters
- Utilise space management effective seasonal and product marketing and initiatives
- Develop and maintain strong awareness of the local market and our competitors and exploit opportunities
- Build relationships to identify and grow local opportunities
Managing Profit & Costs
- Manage store costs in order to maximise profits
- Interpret daily, weekly, monthly figures and action as required
- Drive sales volumes and increase margins through innovative sales and marketing
initiatives - Monitor margins on a rolling basis
- Drive for sustained improvements on reducing poor performers
- Identify opportunities to promote GPG products
- Ensure stock file accurately reflects stock on hand and stocktaking.
- Effective management of Cash Control
- Effective stock taking
- Ensure all company policies and procedures relating to security of company monies and stock are strictly adhered to at all times.
- General housekeeping to include cleaning and the upkeep and filling of the shelves on the showroom floor, on a daily basis
Communication
- Adopt an inspirational leadership style which both encourages a high level of morale
within the store and drive a positive “Can Do” attitude, positively influencing the
team. - Take ownership and drive effective communication in the store and to GPG, always
leading by example and ensure communication is timely and consistent
The role is such that the list above is not exhaustive and may be subject to change
depending on business need - B-Corp
- Embed B-Corp principles & values across the business
- Create a workplace culture dedicated to fostering diversity and inclusion, ensuring equal opportunities for all employees
Skills / Experience Required
- Strong financial and commercial acumen
- Excellent people management
- Organisational skills
- Resourcefulness
- Safety management
- Manging processes
- Inventory control
Reporting skills
- Ability to analyse information
- 5+ years’ experience working in a similar role
- IT skills are required, along with the ability to learn new systems
- Strong written and oral communication skills are required
- Must be prepared to work as part of a team and assist or carry out other duties during periods of high workload, sickness, holidays and emergencies
- Undertake any other duties as requested by the Head of Retail/Senior Management.
Person Specification
- Good interpersonal skills / the ability to build strong relationships
- Have the ability to implement existing procedures in a positive manner
- Have a strong sense of ownership and responsibility
- Strong influencing skills
- Team worker
- Impeccable attention to detail
GPG is committed to a workplace environment that promotes diversity and inclusion and
creates an open and inclusive culture where everyone feels valued.
As part of the GPG Finance Team and the GPG Management Team, this role will work closely with the Head of Finance, the Business Controller and the Heads of Departments and the Finance team to manage the completion and timely reporting of all financial accounts with specific emphasis on month-end reporting
Roles and Responsibilities
Statutory Accounts and Month-end
- Overall responsibility for the journals and general ledger to ensure timely completion of month end process
- Ensure accurate capture of COGS in the manufacturing process to support Gross Margin analysis
- Monthly review of overheads
- Provide accurate month end reports to support the management accounts process
- Maintaining and reconciling balance sheet accounts
- Maintain Customer rebates and discounts
- Investigating and resolving audit findings, account discrepancies, and issues of noncompliance
- Contributing to the development of new accounting / ERP system, programs, and procedures
- Assist in preparation of tax returns
- Ad-hoc finance projects and to perform other related duties as assigned
- Support to the cash management process/preparation of rolling cash flow statement
- Currency Maintenance
- B-Corp
– Embed B-Corp principles & values across the business
– Create a workplace culture dedicated to fostering diversity and inclusion, ensuring equal opportunities for all employees
Skills Profile
Qualifications/Experience
- Qualified accountant from recognized accountancy body
- Experience of working with ERP system is an advantage
- Working knowledge of tax laws and GAAP / IFRS
- Proficient computer skills including MS Office; Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- An appreciation of Information Systems, processes and applications including Business Intelligence software
Core Competencies
- A passionate, positive and personable individual, excited by a new challenge
- Attention to detail with an analytical, problem solving and inquisitive nature
- Strong business acumen and a refined commercial sense
- Ability to work independently using own initiative but also in a team environment
- Flexible and adaptable approach to tasks
- Excellent analytical, organisational and administrative skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills (written & verbal) with the ability to adapt to differing situations & audiences
GPG is committed to a workplace environment that promotes diversity and inclusion and creates an open and inclusive culture where everyone feels valued.
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