New Home Sales Consultant

We have an exciting opportunity for a New Homes Sales Consultant to join our the Space Homes team. The main purpose of this role is to be responsible for the sale of new build homes from our sales centres, assisting homebuyers every step of the way and being an ambassador for the Space Homes brand. The successful candidate will be a team player but also a self-motivated and tenacious individual with a target driven and customer friendly attitude.

Who we are:

We are proud to be a part of Yorkshire Housing, a housing association that owns and manages more than 18,000 homes across Yorkshire and we’re developing thousands more. Our ambition is that everyone has the opportunity to live in a quality home they can afford and the Space Homes our team plays a vital role in making this happen.

What the role involves:

Key responsibilities include:

• Managing the show home during opening hours
• Converting enquiries into sales in line with targets
• Working with the Space Property management to negotiate sales and maximise income
• Proactively progressing sales from reservation through to move in day
• Carrying out home demonstrations when new home owners move in
• Dealing with property issues, problem solving and reaching solutions

Other impactful duties as per the attached job description.

In order to be successful in this role, you will need you will need to be educated to A level (or equivalent) or related professional qualification, previous experience of working in a residential sales and experience of promoting and marketing properties through a range of mediums.

You will be confident and able to challenge poor standards, (workmanship, late delivery, etc.) and you will have excellent negations skills and be able to ensure our customers fully understand all aspect of the home buying process. You will be prepared to go the extra mile for your customer.  

What can you expect:

In return we offer £23,008 basic (£45,000 OTE) for a 35 hour week Thursday - Monday, 25 days annual leave (raising annually to 30 days) plus a days off in lieu of Bank Holidays. We also have a really good reward package to suit everyone – from a variety of retail discounts to a contributory pension scheme where we will match your contributions up to 9%! As well as our great benefits and a fantastic work environment, we’re also a company that cares about its employees and its customers.

Our values:

What’s more - we’re big on hiring based on our values and are looking for people who are committed to our company values, demonstrating this by:

Respect: establishing good rapport with customers and professionally representing the brand at all times.

Reliability: being target driven with an ability to plan workload and deliver on time.

Enthusiasm: being hard working and motivated by delivering on and exceeding targets.

Why join now:

Yorkshire Housing is going through a major transformation programme - The programme will radically improve the way we interact with our customers, eliminate inefficiencies, and empower our staff to focus on the things that matter most to our customers. We want to make sure that our business is sustainable and that we're able to keep building homes for new customers, making repairs in the properties we own, and support customers to live in their home independently for longer. We’re in an exciting period of continues expansion of our sales portfolio too!

So if you want to be part of the team that makes a real positive difference every day and work for an organisation that prioritises its people and its customers then we want to hear from you!

This is a permanent, full time (35 hours per week) role based out of our sales offices in the Yorkshire area.

The closing date for applications will be Thursday 26 September 2019.

Interviews will take place on Wednesday 2 October 2019.

Please note if you are applying for this role internally you must inform your current line manager