Head of Sales - New Homes in Derby

Competitive Salary & Discretionary Performance Bonus & Company Car Plan/Cash Allowance & Holidays (Buy, Sell and Accrual Scheme) & Company Pension & Private Healthcare & Life Assurance & Benefits.

Our mission is to provide affordable homes to our communities, ensuring that new homes are accessible and attainable for all with a product suitable for everyone.

Avant Homes are proud to employ local people across our developments and within our regional offices; teamwork is key to everything that we do.

If you want to be part of something special, why not start the foundations and build your career with us today?

Due to continued success and future business growth, we have an exciting opportunity for a Sales Director to join our team based at our East Midlands head office in Nottingham.

Are you an experienced new build Sales Director looking for your next role with a growing housebuilder? Do you aspire to lead a high performing sales team, with a focus on selling quality yet affordable homes?

Joining our team as Sales Director, you will be responsible for leading, developing and driving the regional sales performance, along with the effective leadership and management of the wider sales team.

• Providing leadership to the sales department, ensuring the effective management, compliance, control and deployment of the team, promoting a customer focused culture at all times.
• Overall responsibility of quarterly and annual sales, reservations, exchange and completion targets, turnover revenues and profitability budgets and forecasts.
• Formulating site sales strategies, sales release programmes, advertising and pricing strategies for each development with a key focus on cost management.
• Relationship management with internal departments such as Land and Construction, to ensure effective cross team collaboration.
• As a key member of the regional board, work proactively and effectively as a part of the senior management team ensuring a 'whole company' perspective is adopted in relation to the performance and profitability of the East Midlands business.
• Overseeing the working partnerships of management companies, third party providers and suppliers.
• Undertaking regular and productive planning and programme performance review meetings.
• At all times comply with responsibilities under the Company's Health & Safety and Environmental and Corporate Responsibility Policies.

To be successful as our Sales Director, you will either be an established Sales Director or an experienced Head of Sales level looking for your next move to a quality driven business. You will possess excellent team management, leadership and coaching skills, along with a key focus on a high target sales driven performance.

Experience of working within a senior sales leadership role for a new homes developer previously is essential.

• A detailed understanding of sales and marketing activity.
• A key focus on customer experience.
• People management and coaching skills.
• Broad awareness of the codes of practice that impact on sales and marketing matters.
• A full UK driving licence.

Discretionary bonus, Company car plan/cash allowance, Buy, sell and accrual holiday scheme, Private Health care, Company Pension, Life Assurance, Other Benefits including our exclusive Avant discount platform.