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Property Sales Consultant
At Accent we believe everyone has the right to a safe, secure and warm place to call home.
We’re looking for a Property Sales Consultant to join our Sales and Homeownership team in Peterborough .
About the role and person:
- 35 hours per week
- Permanent
It's an exciting time to join our Property Sales team as we have a strong development strategy and pipeline of funding. As a Property Sales Consultant, you’ll utilise your excellent customer services skills to secure sales on new homes and resale properties including Shared-Ownership homes ensuring we meet our targets. As the first point of contact for new and existing customers, you’ll go above and beyond to ensure they receive the best experience from initial enquiry, throughout the sales process to successful completion. You’ll work collaboratively with other teams across Accent such as Brand and Marketing to generate interest in the homes we offer. Regular travel, and occasional overnight stays are essential as our successful development programme continues to create new homes across the country.
It's an exciting time to join our Property Sales team as we have a strong development strategy and pipeline of funding. If you’re a self-starter with a passion for customer service and sales that’s looking for a role with social purpose then we’d love to hear from you.
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Salary
The spot salary for this post is £37,184 per annum for applicants who fully meet the requirements of the post. Applicants, who do not meet all the requirements of the post, will start 5% or 10% below the spot salary.
Post holders will also receive £1,250 per annum as an essential car user.
What will you get from us?
In addition to a competitive salary and agile working, we also have a focus on employees’ development. We support both professional and personal development, ensuring everyone has a development plan and provide access to a wide range of internal and external learning resources.
You’ll also receive:
- 28 days paid holiday (pro-rata excluding bank holidays) per year rising by 1 day per year up to a maximum of one working week.
- A choice of Pension Schemes including a Defined Benefit Scheme with a 7.5% member contribution or a Defined Contribution Scheme with a 4% member contribution and 4% employer contribution. Both pension schemes provide Life Insurance Cover.
- Option to purchase additional holiday of up to 2 of your working weeks (at managers discretion).
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- "Hapi" Benefits App with multiple discounts.
- Cycle to work scheme.
What skills/behaviours do you need to be a Property Sales Consultant?
- Able to demonstrate exceptional levels of customer service and deliver on your promises.
- The ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment whilst remaining motivated in working towards targets.
- Ability to prioritise and organise workload whilst managing high volumes of transactions and ensuring customer satisfaction.
- Good knowledge of schemes such as Shared Ownership as well as secondary home ownership transaction such as staircasing.
- Ability to communicate effectively and work as part of a team.
- Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook, Excel).
- A full UK driving license and access to a car.
- Flexibility in working hours.
Location
The successful candidate will be required to live within a commutable distance to our Peterborough office with frequent travel to sites as required (this can include evening and weekends).
We’re a keen promoter of agile working and encourage working from home, as long as we meet our customers’ needs.
We’ll provide you with the equipment and software you’ll need for the purpose of your role however it will be your responsibility to have an appropriate space to work from as well as a suitable broadband connection/provider.
Interview Process
First stage interviews will take place over Teams between the 15th and 19th November.
Second stage interviews will take place in Peterborough on the 22nd November.
Who are Accent?
At Accent, we believe that everyone should have access to an affordable, sustainable, and safe home, and our work across the country aims to do just that.
We’re a national organisation, but with a community focus. We were formed in 1966 and have grown in the time since, and now provide homes and services to over 40,000 customers.
We understand the impact our work can have in creating better places for people to live by providing well-designed housing, which is in short supply, and building sustainable communities where people choose to live. We are proud of our Homes England Strategic Partnership, which allows us to build even more homes in areas of housing need.
But we are not just about building new homes. We invest in our existing homes to make sure they offer our customers the very best in living standards by adapting to meet new ideas, environmental changes, new regulations for safety and security and modern technology to make them a home for life, in every way our customers need them to be.
Caring for our customers also means caring for their environment. With our ambitious energy-efficient development plans, and our retrofitting projects which are modernising our current homes; we are putting sustainability at the fore so that we can drive value for customers now and in the future.
As anchor institutions in the communities where we work, it’s important we leverage partnerships and seek opportunities for customers that provide the foundations for better living. We build relationships which accelerate and advance our work to ensure customers are supported if they need it and can be happy living in their homes.
Our new operating model puts our colleagues in the heart of our communities. We are committed to building strong relationships with our customers and we work alongside them to co-curate the services we deliver.
We never stop evolving – we are ambitious and driven and understand that great performance is a product of an inclusive and supportive environment, where colleagues can thrive and achieve their best. With a new people strategy and corporate strategy which will sets out our commitments from 2024-2027, it’s an exciting time to join Accent.
If you require reasonable adjustments to any part of our recruitment process, please let us know we will ensure requirements are met.
Please don’t delay in submitting your application. Where roles are urgent or we receive a high volume of applications, we may interview and conclude the process prior to any closing date indicated.
If you have any queries about the role, please email:
Please note candidates must have current eligibility to live and work in the UK, Accent do not currently hold a sponsorship license.
We are excited about our future and if you are too, we’d love to hear from you.
