Property Sales Manager

Job Introduction

Who we are:

Jigsaw Homes Group is one of the largest housing groups in England with more than 37,500 homes across the North West and East Midlands.

We provide quality, low-cost housing and play a wider role in making sure our residents thrive in their homes and benefit from living in healthy, sustainable communities.

About the department:

Providing high-quality affordable homes is vitally important to us to help alleviate the shortage of affordable housing. In addition to managing and maintaining our existing homes, we have an ambitious but achievable aim of delivering 4,000 new affordable homes across our regions during 2021-2016, with a focus on building more sustainably. We deliver outstanding new homes for sale and rent and form innovative partnerships with a range of developers and forward-thinking local authorities to build and create communities.

As a highly motivated individual you will be part of a dedicated and busy Sales Team. Our in-house sales team is branded as Snugg Homes, who market and sell our homes for sale for all subsidiaries of Jigsaw Homes Group. Based in Greater Manchester, Jigsaw Homes Group have been making home ownership easier through shared ownership for more than 20 years. Our aim at Snugg Homes is to help people to realise their dream of buying their own home. We focus on quality as a foundation, on which we have established our reputable service on.

Snugg Homes sits within the wider Development team based in Leigh. The Snugg Homes team consists of an Operations Director, one Assistant Director, a Property Sales Manager, three Property Sales Coordinators, a Property Sales Administrator and a Property Sales Apprentice.

The team are committed, working together to make a difference; provide great service to our customers and colleagues and use their skills and training to rise to the challenges that sales.

About the role:

As Property Sales Manager you are responsible for the delivery of the Organisation’s sales programme and ensuring excellent customer service and efficient sales of our divestment programme and shared ownership homes.

You will be responsible for the management of the Snugg Homes Team, which comprises of five staff members. As a line manager, you will need to actively support your colleagues with their development and well-being. You will need to manage resources against workload, keep staff motivated, engaged and working together.

Your effective communication will ensure our internal and external customers are fully informed on performance against targets and that reporting is in line with agreed guidance and procedures. You will work with the Development Team to influence specification of homes and development opportunities.

You will ensure that excellent customer service is provided at all stages to customers engaging with Snugg Homes for shared ownership purchases.

Your strong organisational skills will ensure full compliance and internal and external system updates are completed accurately.

For more information regarding the role, please refer to the job pack below.

Why join us?

Jigsaw Homes Group offers employees a competitive 24 days holiday per annum rising incrementally to 29 days, plus statutory bank holidays and 3 concessionary days in December. We also offer our employees the option to buy/sell up to 5 days extra leave per year.

As a Jigsaw employee you will also receive incremental salaried pay, company sick pay, on-site gyms, access to our cash back health plan membership, access to Perkbox, our benefits platform giving you access to hundreds of retail discounts, cashback offers and rewards, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, training/development opportunities plus much more. See the benefits page on our website for more details.

If this sounds like the perfect job for you then don’t hesitate to apply now!

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a sufficient number of applications.

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