Sales Executive

The role

We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated and customer-focused Sales Executive to join our team and actively contribute to the achievement of our sales targets. If you're passionate about selling homes and providing a top-notch service, we want to hear from you!

You will be an integral part of the sales team, supporting our efforts in delivering excellent customer service to achieve sales targets and guiding customers through the process, working in line with our marketing strategies and upholding our HEART values.

Key responsibilities:

• Working with financial advisors to ensure applicants can afford homes offered and are creditworthy and fully understand the concept of the initiative they are undertaking. Ensure we remain compliant with all funding requirements with the Capital Funding Guide.
• Validating and qualifying customer enquiries, converting leads to viewings, at times and dates that maximise selling opportunities.
• Arranging and holding of property viewings and open days plus appointments to sell off plan ensuring adhering to H&S policy.
• Managing your sites, marketing suites and sales offices to ensure that they are clean and well presented. Carry out full risk assessment of the sales suite and development before arranging viewings.

Location

This role will be based on site in a Sales and Marketing Suite. You may also be required to travel occasionally to our other offices therefore a car and full driving licence is required.

What you'll need

• Knowledge of the New Homes Quality Code and its good practice guidance.
• An understanding of different home ownership tenures including Shared Ownership.
• Outstanding communication and negotiation skills to influence and persuade, both verbally and in writing.
• The ability to work flexibly including evenings and weekends, to meet customer and business needs.
• A willingness to travel to any location as required, depending on the current development pipeline, throughout the organisation's area of operation.
• A valid UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for business use.

In your supporting statement, it is important that you address how you meet each of the above criteria providing real examples."

Closing Date: 25th May 2025 at 23:59 (We may close the advert early if we receive a suitable number of applications).

About us

At Southern Housing, our residents are at the heart of everything we do. As one of the largest housing providers in the UK with over 77,000 homes across London, the Southeast, the Isle of Wight, and the Midlands, we give over 167,000 people somewhere affordable to call their own!We also understand the difference that safe, secure, and affordable homes can make to people's lives.

A career at Southern Housing will allow you to make a difference every day you come to work. Working in the housing sector with us will bring fresh challenges and give you the opportunity to grow and develop, too.

What's in it for you

Pension

Life
assurance

Healthcare cash plan

Eyecare & dental

Birthday
leave

Retailers discounts

Cycle
to work

Buy & sell
annual leave

Season ticket loan

In-house academy & career development

Flexible working

Inclusion & Diversity

We work hard to create a diverse and inclusive culture and environment where people are respected for who they are. Encouraging inclusion is not just about protected characteristics, it's about celebrating differences of thought, opinion, experience and perspective of each individual.

We're all different in our own way and we want our colleagues to feel comfortable, that they belong, and are safe to be themselves at work, without fear of being judged or excluded, but valued for their contribution to our One Team approach.