Community Sales Director - Senior Living

Benchmark Senior Living; Meriden (CT); On-site; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k Match

Medical/Dental/Vision

Paid Time Off

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

Benchmark Senior Living is seeking a Director of Community Relations to drive occupancy through meaningful relationships with prospective residents, families, and professional partners. You will shift away from transactional sales toward prospect-centered selling, focusing on quality connections and long-term care decisions.

In this role, you will manage prospects throughout the sales cycle, maintain detailed profiles, and monitor the competitive landscape to articulate the Benchmark Difference

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.
• 3–5 years of proven sales experience, preferably in assisted living.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications such as Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Possessing a driver’s license, insurance, and reliable vehicle.
• Ability to speak intelligently about our services.

Responsibilities

• Supporting prospects throughout the sales process
• Building and managing detailed prospect and professional profiles in our database
• Generating and up keeping your pipeline
• Comprehensive understanding of your community’s competitive market landscape
• Researching and/or visiting competitors’ facilities
• Articulating the Benchmark Difference
• Cultivating and managing reciprocal professional relationships throughout marketplace
• As a Sales & Marketing Director for Benchmark Senior Living, you must be an empathetic, diligent and committed active listener with excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.

Skills

Relationship building

Active listening

Communication skills

Sales experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

MS Word

MS Excel

MS Outlook

Job description

We are seeking sales professionals who want to be part of an innovative and dynamic sales culture that focuses on making a difference in the lives of seniors. Joining the Benchmark Senior Living team means putting your passion to work. Our associates feel a sense of belonging with the care that they provide, empowered by the open and reliable team that surrounds them. Our diverse and skilled workforce takes immense pride in a shared commitment: a devotion to providing caring and dedicated service.

Are you a sales professional who enjoys building relationships and tired of chasing metrics? Are you committed to quality, not just quantity? If you are, then Benchmark Senior Living is looking for YOU! As a Director of Community Relations for Benchmark Senior Living, say goodbye to transactional relationships with prospects, telephone call blitzes and sales urgency built around promotions. Instead, you will drive occupancy in your community by developing meaningful personal relationships with potential residents, their families, and professional partners through our commitment to prospect-centered selling.

Responsibilities

• Supporting prospects throughout the sales process
• Building and managing detailed prospect and professional profiles in our database
• Generating and up keeping your pipeline
• Comprehensive understanding of your community’s competitive market landscape
• Researching and/or visiting competitors’ facilities
• Articulating the Benchmark Difference
• Cultivating and managing reciprocal professional relationships throughout marketplace
• As a Sales & Marketing Director for Benchmark Senior Living, you must be an empathetic, diligent and committed active listener with excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university
• 3-5 years of proven sales experience, preferably in assisted living
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications such as Word, Excel, and Outlook
• Possessing a driver’s license, insurance, and reliable vehicle
• Ability to speak intelligently about our services

Benefits

As a community leader at Benchmark, you will have access to a variety of benefits including, but not limited to, the following:

• 8 holidays & 3 floating holidays
• Vacation and Health & Wellness Paid Time Off
• Discounted Meal Program
• Associate Referral Bonus Program, up to $1,500
• Physical & Mental Health Wellness Programs
• Medical, Vision & Dental Benefits, upon hire with no waiting period
• Tuition Reimbursement
• 401k Retirement Plan with Company Match
• Company-provided Life Insurance & Long-Term Disability

Benchmark Senior Living is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

We embrace and encourage our associates’ differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our associates unique.