Property Sales Consultant (Fixed term)

Sovereign Network Group; Basingstoke; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading housing provider based in Basingstoke is seeking a Sales Consultant to join their team on a 12-month fixed-term contract. You will provide excellent sales service throughout the buying journey and build relationships with customers. The role requires sales experience in housing and strong customer service skills. You can expect flexible working, generous holiday, and a supportive team environment.

Benefits

25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays

Generous Matching Pension scheme up to 12%

Life cover

Flexible remote working

Reward and Recognition scheme

Qualifications

• Sales experience is strongly preferred.
• Ability to build meaningful relationships with customers.
• Motivated individual capable of meeting sales targets.

Responsibilities

• Provide excellent sales service at every stage of the buying journey.
• Act as the main point of contact for customers.
• Proactively identify potential sales leads.

Skills

Sales experience within the Housing industry

Strong customer service skills

Ability to build relationships

Self-management

Team player

Full driver's license

Job description

Are you a driven sales person with a passion for providing excellent customer service? If so, we have a fantastic opportunity to for a Sales Consultant to join our brilliant Sales team on a 12 month Fixed Term basis.

From first time buyers looking for to get onto the property market with Shared Ownership, to growing families looking for that forever home on the Open Market and everything in-between, as a real people person you'll have the chance make a real difference to our customers buying journey.

Full-time, Monday to Friday 8:30 – 17:00 with occasional weekend and out of hours work as required. Based out of our head office in Basingstoke, you'll combine office and home working to ensure a positive work life balance.

The role will include:

· Providing an excellent sales service at every stage of the buying journey. You'll build great relationships with your customers and deliver the highest standards of care

· Acting as the main point of contact for customers throughout their sales journey, you will be dealing with both Open Market and Shared Ownership plots sales

· Taking operational responsibility for a range of new developments across several sales locations across the south of England, including all aspects of presentation and stock management

· Proactively identify potential sales and create ‘forward' interest and viewings

· Follow-up all leads and effectively qualify, progress and close sales to ensure that figures are kept in line with agreed sales targets

· Knowing your customer and your developments in detail to be able to effectively influence the marketing activity for your schemes through effective and tailored campaigns, alongside individual market research

What we're looking for:

· Sales experience within the Housing industry and/or Estate Agency

· Strong customer service skills, and ability to build meaningful relationships with both internal stakeholders and external customers

· A highly motivated individual who can deliver against sales targets and KPI's

· The ability to self-manage and prioritise your own workload

· A team player – it's really important that we work collectively across our teams and support one another

· Full driver's license and your own vehicle required

What you can expect from us:

· 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays (with an extra day every year up to 30 days)

· Chance to buy or sell holiday as part of our flexible benefits package

· Generous Matching Pension scheme up to 12%

· Life cover

· Chance to buy or sell holiday as part of our flexible benefits package

· Flexible remote working

· Reward and Recognition scheme

· A suite of personal development programmes

About Sovereign Network Group (SNG)

At SNG we provide affordable housing across the South of England, from London to Devon, and we reinvest everything we earn so that our customers have sustainable homes and thriving communities, both now and in the future.

We are the 6th largest housing association in the UK. With over 84,000 homes we deliver services to in excess of 210,000 customers across the South East and South West.

We are committed to our Equality Diversity and Inclusion strategy and believe that you can truly be yourself at Sovereign. It's a fantastic time to join us at Sovereign, having just been awarded a Gold accreditation by Investors In People, we are sure you will find us a very welcoming and inspiring bunch to work for and with.

If you would like the opportunity to make a real impact within our changing and growing organisation, we would love to hear from you.