Senior Sales Executive

Sanctuary is one of the UK's leading providers of housing, care and community services. With around 13,000 employees, we maintain a culture where diversity is valued and talent is nurtured and rewarded.

Senior Sales Executive

Location: London and South East Region with the expectation to manage developments in this region on an ad hoc basis.

Salary: £33,974 - (Rising to £35,762 following 12 months of proficient work) Sales Incentive Scheme

Hours: 35 hours per week - Thursday to Monday

We have an excellent opportunity for a Senior Sales Executive to join our thriving Development Sales and Marketing team. With a strong background in customer service, excellent negotiation and presentation skills, you will also be responsible for marketing and selling Sanctuary's new homes properties, this will not include existing stock or resales.

Through our exciting development programme, we aspire to build 30,000 new homes. This is an excellent opportunity to join our ambitious Development department who will be delivering this project. Therefore, if you are a hardworking and ambitious individual with previous experience as a Negotiator in an Estate Agency or a Senior Sales Advisor within a New Homes environment, this could be the role for you.

The role of Senior Sales Executive will include:

• Providing a positive customer journey at all times
• Liaising with customers, estate agents, solicitors and mortgage brokers on a daily basis
• Recording and following up on enquiries regarding the new homes available and answering their queries regarding purchasing options
• Taking sale reservations and seeing these through to completion whilst liaising with all internal and external parties related to the sale
• Recording any upgrades and incentives related to the sale and ensuring these are noted on all sale and legal paperwork
• Recording all sale paperwork onto the Sanctuary record systems for future audit trails
• Ensuring the Marketing suite/sales area is presentable at all times
• Ensuring the marketing literature is up to date and available
• Ensuring GDPR guidelines are adhered to and followed
• Working with internal and external teams to ensure goals and targets set are met

Skills and experiences:

• Recent experience in undertaking a similar role with new home or estate agency experience
• Working knowledge of the application of Health and Safety legislation
• Proven experience of working to deadlines and prioritising workloads
• Excellent communication and customer care skills
• Working knowledge of Help to Buy regulations, consumer codes, and outright sales current is desirable
• Good negotiation and presentation skills
• Proficient user of Microsoft packages including Excel, Word, and Outlook
• Travel is a requirement of the role, therefore a full valid driving licence is essential

Why work for us?

One of the UK's leading providers of housing, care and commercial services, Sanctuary employs more than 14,000 people and manages over 116,000 units of accommodation throughout England and Scotland, including general rented, retirement living, supported housing, student and key worker accommodation and care homes. Sanctuary also provides a range of other services including maintenance, care and telecare, all of which are delivered by our dedicated employees who are completely committed to customer service.

Our Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave (rising to a maximum of 30 days) plus public holidays
• A pension scheme with matching employer contributions from Sanctuary up to set limits
• Life Assurance
• Employee Volunteering scheme
• Employee Advice Service including counselling
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Voluntary health plans
• Employee discounts
• Wellbeing support and tools
• Employee recognition scheme
• Employee platform to access your reward and wellbeing package online, find exclusive discounts, wellbeing resources and recognition tools
• Employee Networks, with a shared interest in inclusion, and who provide invaluable support to colleagues
• Sales Incentives based on individual sales targets/KPI's

Closing Date: 17 October 2024

We reserve the right depending on application numbers to close or extend the closing dates for positions; we would therefore recommend an early application.

Inclusion is one of our core values. Our goal is to be a diverse, inclusive organisation where our people thrive and meet our customers' needs with fairness and empathy. We know having a range of ideas and opinions makes a difference. We encourage and welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support this mission. We will make adjustments throughout your application process, in line with Sanctuary's commitment to our Disability Confident employer status.

Building Equality and Diversity

Sanctuary Group encourages and welcomes applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support our commitment to offering an inclusive environment for our employees and customers.