Sales Adviser

Job Details

What you’ll be doing?

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 …

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

To be successful in the role, we are looking for:

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

We’ve been nationally recognised as a 5 star housebuilder since 2010 for supplying high-quality homes for all generations. That’s more than any other major housebuilder. It’s because we combine the brightest minds, the latest technology, and a genuine commitment to putting customers first. We want the best people in the industry to help us shape the future of building. We have tailored opportunities for apprentices, graduates, experienced professionals and ex-Armed Forces personnel to come and help us stay one step ahead, and build the homes that Britain needs.
Barratt adopts a hybrid way of working which assumes that where roles allow, our office-based colleagues divide their time between working in the office, on our construction sites and sales offices, and working from home, as the role dictates. We recognise the many benefits that an effective hybrid working culture brings to both the Company and our colleagues.

We are building an organisation where anyone with drive and talent can pursue the career they want. We are building a culture where anyone, regardless of gender, race, age, sexuality, disability, background or any other characteristic, can progress and be proud to work for us.

As part of working for Barratt Redrow PLC and specifically for this role we offer:

Competitive Salary
Competitive Bonus Scheme
Private Medical Insurance – Single Cover
Annual Health Assessment
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

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.
About Southern Counties

Our dual-branded Barratt David Wilson divisions combine the best of our Barratt Homes and David Wilson Homes brands.

Whether it is homes focused on first time buyers, or those aimed towards customers taking the next step in their homeownership journey, we provide award winning quality and innovative design.

That’s why we’ve been awarded the maximum 5 Stars from the Home Builders Federation since 2009, making us the only major national housebuilder to achieve this.
Where you’ll be
working

Here is where you’ll be based, whether that’s an office or one of our sites.
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Ecclesden Park, Water Lane, Angerming, West Sussex, BN16 4EP, United Kingdom