Title:  Area Sales Manager

Sanctuary is one of the UK’s leading providers of housing, care and community services. With around 13,000 employees, we maintain a culture where diversity is valued and talent is nurtured and rewarded.

Area Sales Manager

Worcester covering The Midlands

£44,363 - £46,698 per year plus Company car or car allowance + Sales Incentive Scheme

35 hours per week

We have an excellent opportunity for an Area Sales Manager to join our thriving sales team who are responsible for all new build sales within Sanctuary including both Shared Ownership and Open Market tenure. With a strong background in customer service and excellent negotiation and presentation skills, you will be an experienced people manager who can lead a team to deliver successful results.

Through our exciting development programme we aspire to build 30,000 new homes. This is an excellent opportunity to join our ambitious Development department who will be delivering this project. Therefore, if you are a hardworking and ambitious individual who strives for success, this could be the role for you.

The role of Area Sales Manager will include:

• Manage and collate all sales and marketing documentation required to support the Group's national development programme
• Manage, Build and maintain relationships with internal and external customers identifying any shortfalls in service delivery and ensuring issues are raised for resolution in line with Group aims and objectives
• Ensure the accurate reporting of sales status across the national programme, including liaising with solicitors, sales managers and sales coordinators to provide timely updates within agreed formats
• Manage the recruitment, performance and development of quality staff to ensure strong teams are built who can deliver in line with business needs and individual accountabilities

Skills and experiences:

• Recent experience in undertaking a similar role
• Some experience of working in a customer service and or/administrative role
• Working knowledge of analysing and diagnosing problems and implementing effective solutions
• Previous experience of managing a team
• Excellent customer service and interpersonal skills
• Proficient user of Microsoft packages including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams
• This role will involve driving on company business. In order to drive a company vehicle, drivers must hold a full valid UK driving licence

Why work for us?

One of the UK’s leading providers of housing, care and commercial services, Sanctuary employs more than 14,000 people and manages over 116,000 units of accommodation throughout England and Scotland, including general rented, retirement living, supported housing, student and key worker accommodation and care homes. Sanctuary also provides a range of other services including maintenance, care and telecare, all of which are delivered by our dedicated employees who are completely committed to customer service.  

Our Benefits    

As part of our commitment to making Sanctuary a great place to work, where your wellbeing is of genuine importance, we have developed an attractive employment package. The package recognises your contribution, supports your physical, mental and financial health and gives you the flexibility to tailor your employee benefits by offering:

• 25 days annual leave (rising to a maximum of 30 days) plus public holidays
• A pension scheme with matching employer contributions from Sanctuary up to set limits
• Life Assurance
• Employee Volunteering scheme
• Employee Advice Service including counselling
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Voluntary health plans  
• Employee discounts
• Wellbeing support and tools
• Employee recognition scheme
• Employee platform to access your reward and wellbeing package online, find exclusive discounts, wellbeing resources and recognition tools
• £44,363 per annum (rising to £46,698 per annum after 12 months, subject to satisfactory performance)
• Sales Incentives based on individual sales targets/KPI’s 

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Closing Date: 30 October 2024

We reserve the right depending on application numbers to close or extend the closing dates for positions; we would therefore recommend an early application.

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Building Equality and Diversity

Sanctuary Group encourages and welcomes applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support our commitment to offering an inclusive environment for our employees and customers. 
We work closely with the Home Office in order to prevent unlawful working.
Sanctuary Group is a trading name of Sanctuary Housing Association, an exempt charity.