Sales Associate

The role:

Substantial and continued investment is contributing to Ashtons success and growth, with our Sales Department in St Albans a significant component of this.

We are recruiting for a Sales Associate to join our team based in St Albans to continue driving this momentum forward.

The successful candidate will be a proactive, highly energised team player who will ideally have 1-3 years’ experience working in the Estate Agency Industry. Making 50 -100 calls per day you will be business generation focused.

With separate Administration, Property Management and Accounts departments, the primary focus will be on building market share in a competitive environment, without the paperwork and administration 'negatives’ sometimes attributed to sales roles.

Skill Set:

• Generating new business by contacting and forging relationships with potential buyers and sellers (Prospecting)
• Meeting and greeting applicants and clients in the office
• General answering of telephone calls and passing of messages where relevant
• Appraising clients of viewing feedback in accordance with prescribed service standards
• Reviewing property marketing every fortnight in line with Office Manager. Recommending price changes where relevant
• Ensuring offers are financially evaluated, put forward, and confirmed in writing (with supervision from Manager)
• Canvassing
• Contacting applicants by telephone, email and post, to book viewings of properties and identifying opportunities for Potential Instructions where relevant
• Ensuring that all applicants initially registered by you are regularly spoken to and a new call-back date set
• At the end of each day, checking that all viewings are made and confirmed. Ensure clients earlier unavailable are contacted again
• Accompanying potential buyers to view properties
• Property Photography
• Assisting Senior Sales Associates and Valuers with client management

Remuneration:

£23,000 - £24,000 pa + personal and office commission (OTE £30,000 - £32,000)

Hours:

Monday-Friday 8.30am - 6.00pm

1-in-4 Saturdays 9.00am to 5.00pm

Additional Benefits Package:

Parking Permit provided by business, 28 days holiday (inclusive of Bank Holidays), competitions, company parties, monthly lunches, end of month drinks provided by the business.

About Ashtons:

Ashtons is an independent Estate Agency practice, founded over 40 years ago. Driven by meaningful service and performance values, Ashtons has become the unique entity it is today.

The group provides first class Estate Agency, Letting Agency and New Homes in Harpenden, Welwyn Garden City, Berkhamsted, Hitchin and St Albans. Outlying rural areas are dealt with through our specialist Village & Country office in Redbourn and second Village & Rural department at Welwyn Garden City.

At Ashtons, everyone is treated as an individual from the day we first meet them, to the day we hand over the keys to their new home. We strive to cater for specific needs - nothing is classed as standard and nothing is left to chance. Exemplary service sits naturally alongside unrivalled performance.

We have strength and depth with over 120 enthusiastic and professionally minded people, who contribute daily to the success of our brand throughout Hertfordshire.

We have been recognised by the Sunday Times for 4 consecutive years in their Best 100 Medium Companies to Work For list, being proud recipients of 1st place in the Property Sectors best company to work for in the UK. We were gold and silver medal winners at The Times/Sunday Times Estate Agent of the Year awards, East of England, for Sales and Lettings respectively. We have also held the Investors in People accreditation for over 10 years.