Sales Advisers

Barratt Redrow; Swansea; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A premier homebuilder in the United Kingdom is seeking a Sales Adviser to assist customers in finding their ideal homes. The role requires excellent interpersonal and sales skills, as well as the ability to build rapport with customers and understand their needs. Responsibilities include achieving sales targets, effective lead follow-up, and demonstrating product knowledge. The position offers a competitive salary and a range of benefits, including private medical cover, a bonus scheme, and additional perks to support wellbeing.

Benefits

Competitive Salary

Competitive Bonus Scheme

Private Medical Cover

26 Days Holiday

Flexible Benefits

Enhanced Family Friendly Policies

Qualifications

• Comprehensive local knowledge of amenities and transport links.
• Experience in sales in service environments like retail or hospitality.
• Ability to achieve targets and thrive under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate local knowledge and understanding of products.
• Convert enquiries to site visits through effective lead follow-up.
• Achieve sales targets and maintain a positive company reputation.
• Communicate and negotiate effectively with customers.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Listening skills

Questioning skills

Empathy

Sales skills

IT literacy

Commercial understanding

Negotiation skills

Resilience

Job description

Overview

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 …

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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
• Excellent communication skills
• 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

Company & Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• 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)
• Choice of Flexible Benefits
• Enhanced Family Friendly Policies

Our Benefits Are Fit To Measure 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. Private medical cover Private healthcare support is available for timely access to a virtual GP, for diagnosis, treatment and more - including physio and talking therapies. You can even add family members. Pension First-class pension schemes with the option of up to 10% employer contributions. Annual Health Assessment All colleagues are able to access a fully funded annual health assessment, helping you to proactively manage your health and wellbeing. Financial Benefits As well as a competitive salary, we offer many ways to make life more affordable - from access to employee loans and savings accounts, to house purchase discounts. Lifestyle Benefits Cycle to Work scheme, reduced hotel rate, discounts at major retailers… These make a massive difference to the quality of your lifestyle. So much more… From death in service, paid volunteer and study leave, enhanced family friendly policies (including our Parents and Carers leave) to a share buying scheme, we have an incredible range of additional benefits.