Business Broker - Childcare & Education

Business Agent – Childcare & Education – London

About us

We are the leading specialist advisor for buying and selling businesses in our sectors – hotels, pubs, restaurants, childcare, healthcare, convenience retail, leisure and medical. With 90 years of experience, we offer professional brokerage and advisory services, our team has a network of 11 offices in the UK along with 11 in Europe, employing the largest hotels team in Real Estate. We pride ourselves in our high standards, providing a client centric experience and building business around our clients through tailoring our services.

Purpose of the role

We require an experienced property/business agent to join our Childcare & Education Team. Our team are market leaders and in this buoyant, needs driven and consolidating market, we seek to appoint an agent in our London office to further grow our team, support more clients and gain further market share. You will be directly responsible for sourcing and transacting childcare and education businesses, covering North London, Suffolk and the Kent region. You will generate leads to sell, process instructions and manage deals to completion. You will identify, contact and qualify buyers. You will be client facing and will be the first point of contact in any sale and also be dealing with buyers and applicants across this region.

About the team

Our award-winning childcare and education team are an experienced, collaborative and supporting group of 11 colleagues providing nationwide coverage from our childcare hubs in Edinburgh, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol and London. Their expertise spans across a wide range of Childcare & Education businesses that care and educate children from birth to 19 years. The team is most well-known for their day nursery sector transactional activity, but they also work closely with clients across the independent school, children’s social care and SEND – special educational needs and disabilities business property markets.

Responsibilities

In this role you will:

• Focus on growing our brokerage activity in the childcare and education markets across the North London, Suffolk and the Kent region.
• Generate relationships and develop new business, winning agency mandates across these markets, through various prospecting methods.
• Register and maintain client requirements on our Salesforce CRM system
• Liaise closely with sector team colleagues in securing, listing, marketing and managing opportunities for sale
• Negotiate and agree deals, manage lawyers and the sale process
• Provide regular client updates on instruction activity

What we are looking for

The suitable candidate for this role would bring:

• Previous experience within commercial or residential Estate Agency business; Essential
• Proven track record/experience in sales; Essential
• Strong verbal and written communication skills; Essential
• High standard of customer service; Essential
• UK Driver’s licence and confident with driving long distances; Essential

About you

At Christie & Co, we value the importance of creating and maintaining meaningful personal relationships in the workplace to achieve success as a team. Our people bring:

• Strong teamwork skills
• Self-motivation, persistence, and intuition
• Politeness and professionalism
• Excellent communication abilities
• Proactivity, organization, and meticulousness
• Enthusiasm for working in a fast-paced environment
• Flexibility and adaptability, responding well to change
• Initiative and resourcefulness
• Effective workload prioritization
• The ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.

What we offer

• A competitive commission structure
• Car allowance and Insurance for you plus one
• Mileage Allowance Relief
• Fuel card
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Holiday carryover & additional Christmas leave
• Life assurance
• Employee wellbeing assistance via Plumm
• “Recommend a Friend” employee referral bonus
• Enhanced family friendly leave
• Cycle to work scheme
• Eyecare vouchers

Our values:

Adaptable, Collaborative, Innovative, Personal and Trust. Want to know what it's like to work at Christie & Co? Click here: https://www.christie.com/careers/what-makes-the-christie-co-experience/

Please apply today, or for more information, contact: jobs@christie.com

Christie & Co is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our policy is clear: there shall be no discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, or sexual orientation.