Sales Adviser - Wellingborough/Northampton

Barratt Developments plc; Wellingborough; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a motivated Sales Adviser to help customers find their perfect home. In this dynamic role, you'll leverage your exceptional interpersonal skills and sales experience to build rapport with clients, understand their needs, and guide them through the home-buying process. You'll be expected to demonstrate local knowledge, utilize effective sales strategies, and achieve sales targets while providing outstanding customer service. Join a company that values diversity, inclusion, and sustainability, and enjoy a competitive bonus scheme and generous holiday benefits as you contribute to creating beautiful, high-quality homes.

Benefits

Competitive Bonus Scheme

Private Medical Cover - Single Cover

26 days’ holiday

Qualifications

• Experience in sales within service sectors like retail or hospitality.
• Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills for customer engagement.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate local knowledge and understand customer needs.
• Utilize sales methodologies to achieve targets and convert leads.

Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Listening Skills

Questioning Skills

Empathy

Product Demonstration

Closing Skills

Sales Experience

Commercial Awareness

Negotiation Skills

IT Literacy

Job description

Sales Adviser - Wellingborough/Northampton

Our Sales Advisers help customers find their dream home and provide excellent customer service throughout the sales process.

You would need to demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills to enable you to build rapport with customers to understand their needs and requirements. These would need to include listening skills, questioning skills, empathy, product demonstration and closing skills.

Reporting to a Sales Manager you’ll be expected to …

• Demonstrate comprehensive local knowledge including amenities, schools, transport links and competitors.
• Have a thorough understanding of our product and pricing.
• Effective lead follow up skills to convert enquiries to site visits.
• Utilise our Sales methodology, schemes and incentives effectively to close a sale.
• Achieve sales targets in line with business requirements.

To be successful in the role, we are looking for:

• Experience of delivering sales in a service environment e.g. housebuilding, retail, hospitality, banking, estate agency.
• Commercially astute with a good understanding of the market and competitors.
• Understands and acts upon customer needs to maintain Company reputation.
• Thrives on challenge, is resilient and driven to achieve personal and organisational targets.
• Able to remain calm and controlled under pressure.
• Keeps up to date with new thinking including legislation, economic conditions and technology.
• Communicates and negotiates persuasively – capable of influencing others assertively, building rapport with customers.
• Embraces change and explores new ways of working to help the continuous growth of the sales operation.
• Encourages and supports people in the team, sharing knowledge and best practice.
• Able to build relationships across functions, internally and externally.
• Self-starter who works effectively without direct management.
• IT literate.
• Flexible with working pattern, must be able to work weekends and bank holidays.
• Flexible with travel, sometimes at short notice.
• Holds full driving license and have use of a vehicle for business travel.

As part of working for Barratt Redrow PLC and specifically for this role we offer:

• Competitive Bonus Scheme.
• Private Medical Cover - Single Cover.
• 26 days’ holiday (increase by 1 day for every 3 years’ continuous service up to 29 days).

Today’s housebuilding professional need tomorrow’s benefits, so they’re ready for whatever the future brings. When you join Barratt, you get the kind of support you would expect from a business built for a modern working world.

About South Midlands

David Wilson is known for its beautifully designed houses that are built to the highest quality with fixtures and fittings to match. We build the finest quality new homes to award-winning standards. With our meticulous attention to detail, we put a premium on timeless craftsmanship. By combining top-quality materials and innovative designs, every David Wilson home is crafted to be both beautiful, sustainable and functional.

Putting diversity and inclusion front and centre

We know that a diverse team is better for our customers, makes us a more attractive employer and results in a stronger, more sustainable business. Which is why we're so committed to developing our inclusive culture.

Thinking ahead to leave a better world behind

We’re building a sustainable tomorrow, one house and one community at a time. Our commitment to our customers is rooted in every decision and day-to-day action we take.