About the Role
Do you have an interest in property management, customer relations, and the holiday industry?
Our Regional Commercial Field Team has an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and driven Property Consultant to join us on a 12-month Fixed Term Contract and take up their latest career challenge within Sykes Cottages.
In return for your hard-work, we can ensure you join a vibrant, inclusive work culture and make the most of fantastic career progression opportunities alongside some impressive company benefits!
• Paying up to £35,000 per annum / 37.5 hours per week / Monday-Friday.
• Plus access to our annual STIP (annual company-wide bonus) scheme with an additional 10% of your salary
• Covering a 12 month Maternity Cover
• 33 days annual leave including bank holidays
• Plus an additional day off for your Birthday
• Plus an additional two volunteering days per year
• A flexible hybrid-working policy, with a min two days a week from our Chester head office
• An enhanced maternity and paternity policy
• Inclusive and supportive work environment
• Employee discounts and benefits with your wellbeing at the centre
Our newest Property Consultant will join our specialist Regional / Commercial Field Team, responsible for building and maintaining the Sykes portfolio across their local region.
The perfect opportunity for those with proven sales experience, keen negotiators or those with an interest in the property or staycation market, you will be responsible for meeting potential owners, impressing them with your expertise to ensure that the Owners sign up whilst ensuring all properties are a good match with the Sykes brand and will ensure our customers have a fantastic holiday.
Our Property Consultants are the “local face” of Sykes, using their rapport building skills and company knowledge to promote the benefits of Sykes Cottages and the services we offer.
Travel Requirements: Within this autonomous role, you will cover a two mile radius within your designated patch, currently around our Best of Suffolk sister brand location in Badingham. Candidates must therefore have access to their own car as well as a valid driving licence.
This is the perfect opportunity to leverage your local knowledge, sales skills, and passion for great properties to maintain and expand our regional portfolio while consistently providing a world-class customer experience.
Your Responsibilities
Our newest Property Consultant will be accountable for the following areas:
• Conducting property visits with potential and existing owners to assess properties, take photographs and note features to accurately and attractively represent the property on our website and in marketing material
• Quickly build a rapport with potential property owners – selling the benefits of Sykes and the services we offer
• Identify key reasons as to why an owner may sign with Sykes and any potential obstacles – ensuring these are overcome during the visit
• Maintain an up to date electronic diary to ensure new visits can be booked in promptly and in accordance with Service Level targets
• Complete accurate and precise write ups for each property to maximise bookings for the property
• Lead generation
• Ensuring a high level of retention in the local property portfolio – proactively dealing with any concerns from local owners to a high level of satisfaction
• Recommend changes to systems and procedures to improve the efficiency of the site operations. Continually review operational practices to ensure best practice is delivered at all times.
• Work in accordance with the Data Protection Act (1998) and to ensure all new systems and data are secure
Skills and Qualifications
We are looking for those who can share in our company goals, values and ethos, who can grow alongside us and whose skills can aid our ongoing success!
By Being One Team, Owning it, Communicating Honestly and showcasing a devotion to Learning, Growing and Innovating, we remain true to our original ethos and ensure we stay true to our Customers, Owners and Colleagues alike.
First and foremost we are interested in those who have the potential to hold these values, as for this position, we ask you to have the following key skills:
• In-depth knowledge about local area, including property market and holidaymaker demographics
• Strong track record in sales and negotiation
• Strong organisational skills – able to manage diary and return paperwork within SLA deadlines
• Good knowledge about components of a great holiday property
• Able to build a rapport quickly
• Commercial approach and mindset
• Access to own transport, laptop and own driving license
Although standouts will also have:
• Basic photography skills
If you are actively seeking your next career challenge, keen to join a diverse, exciting team, or want to grow your career within an industry leader, we welcome you to get in touch or apply!
Who we are
Sykes Holiday Cottages is a business with big dreams and bursting with ambition. We have pinned our sights on becoming the UK's number one holiday rental agency and will stop at nothing to reach our goal, combining over 30 years’ industry experience with our fierce company drive to become the best in the market for what we do. What started as a small, family-run company has now grown to be an 2000-strong workforce of ambitious, passionate professionals working under the Forge Holiday Group parent brand.
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