Sales Executive - New Homes

Tilia Homes; England; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading housebuilder is seeking a Sales Executive to join a friendly team in Bedfordshire. You will provide cover across various developments, assist customers with the sales process, and maintain high standards in Sales Centre operations. Ideal candidates will have experience in home sales and excellent communication skills. The role includes a range of benefits, such as a commission scheme and enhanced retirement plans.

Benefits

Excellent Commission Scheme

Enhanced Company Pension

Life Assurance

26 days holiday with additional bank holidays

Holiday Buy Scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Experience in the sale of homes, preferably new homes.
• Conversant with legal terminology used in the home buying process.
• A good understanding of lenders and financial aspects of purchasing a home.
• Full UK driving license.

Responsibilities

• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of products and construction.
• Attend to customer needs and progress leads via CRM system.
• Initiate paperwork with speed and accuracy for reservations.
• Build relationships with solicitors, estate agents, and banks.
• Ensure Sales Centre and Show Homes are well maintained.
• Support company in covering additional developments.

Skills

Sales techniques

Effective communication

IT literacy

Tools

Microsoft Office suite

Job description

Overview

We have an opportunity for a Sales Executive to join a friendly team working across a number of different developments in the Bedfordshire area, on a permanent basis, in a Roaming capacity. The role would be to mainly provide cover for sickness and holiday within the wider team, but also provide additional support on busy developments when/where required. Duties include:

Responsibilities

• Maintaining an up-to-date knowledge of our product and its construction, relevant local information, our unique selling points, the New Homes Quality Code, General Disclosure of Personal Records, Hopkins Homes Health & Safety and Personal Safety policies, and using such knowledge in a professional and structured manner
• Attending to the needs of visitors, customers and potential purchasers and updating and progressing leads via our CRM system
• Taking reservations and initiating paperwork with speed and accuracy and supporting customers with understanding the sales process, including the financial and legal aspects
• Building great working relationships and having a continuous liaison with solicitors, estate agents, banks and building society managers and valuers to support with sales
• Ensuring the Sales Centre, Show Homes, Stock Plots and associated gardens are well maintained, cleaned and kept up to date, to maintain a standard of excellence
• Sales of customer extras from the Hopkins Homes range within agreed timescales and to agreed targets
• Effective communication with the Site Manager to ensure knowledge of plot construction, progress and safe areas of viewing
• Supporting the company in covering additional developments across the region when required
• The role covers a 5 day week which includes weekends

Qualifications & Experience

• Experience in the sale of homes, preferably new homes
• Proficient in sales techniques
• Conversant with all legal terminology used in the home buying process
• A clear and effective communicator in both verbal and written communication
• A good understanding of lenders and the financial aspects of purchasing a home
• IT literate using Microsoft Office suite
• Full UK driving license

About the employer: Tilia Homes are a 5 star, customer focused housebuilder that put people and the planet at the heart of everything we do. We're dedicated to delivering the best possible standards in design, build quality, and service for our customers. Bringing together two trusted housebuilding brands, Tilia Homes and Hopkins Homes, untypical aims to make a positive difference to the UK housebuilding market and help to provide greater access to homes which are affordable for buyers. Guided by an innovative approach and a commitment to excellence, untypical focuses on creating sustainable, inclusive communities, delivering homes across the UK that people want to live in and are good for the planet. untypical is guided by its ambition to become the UK's most customer-centric housebuilder. By putting people and the planet at the heart of the communities that it builds, untypical aims to make a positive difference to the UK housebuilding market and help to provide greater access to homes which are affordable for buyers. We're looking for talented and enthusiastic individuals who will share this passion, to join our team.

We’re looking for talented and enthusiastic people who will share this passion, to join our team. Our benefits package includes:

• Excellent Commission Scheme
• Enhanced Company Pension
• Life Assurance
• 26 days holiday with additional bank holidays
• Holiday Buy Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme