Sales Manager

As the principal investment arm of the Legal & General Group, our aim at Legal & General Capital is to generate long-term shareholder value, while helping build a better society. We seek opportunities to invest in sectors most in need of investment and innovation, such as residential housing, large-scale urban regeneration, and future cities. We’re backing investment in infrastructure and clean energy, and in start-up businesses to drive innovation and growth across the UK. We’re building partnerships between the public sector and institutional investors to accelerate housing delivery, create jobs, support local businesses, and transform communities. This helps to create new asset classes for Legal & General’s varied investment requirements, our partners, and the wider marketplace.  

We’re recruiting for a Sales Manager to join us. We’re offering a competitive base salary plus 10% car allowance. Reporting to the Head of Sales, an opportunity exists for a driven and customer-focused Sales Manager to help drive the delivery of the company’s on-site Sales and Marketing strategy. This role has responsibility for the day to day management and support of external sales teams and will provide clear direction on targets and financial parameters within which on-site sales team works.   

What you'll be doing:

• Supporting the implementation alongside the Head of Sales and Digital Marketing Manager in the execution of the overall National sales and marketing strategy
• Leading on formulating site specific sales and marketing strategies for presentation to the Head of Sales and for agreement with the Managing Director
• Ensuring the consistency of all branding, marketing and advertising material, including sales literature and site signage at all times
• Day to day management and training external sales agency teams on the Shared Ownership product and Affordable Homes sales process and compliance
• Producing weekly sales reports and other ad hoc sales related reports as necessary
• Proposing scheme plot specific pricing/dealing margins, tracking sales to ensure budgets are met,  and monitoring site specific marketing activities to maximise site sales
• Liaising with the development and finance teams, plus external solicitors to ensure all legal requirements and ‘go to market’ information is in place; leases, service charges, CMLs etc
• Ensuring existing and pipeline schemes have current RICS valuations

Who we're looking for:

• A strong sales background within the housing sector
• Shared Ownership product – a strong understanding of this tenure, regulation, compliance  and demographic with a private sale approach to achieving sales
• A proven track record of delivery within an established residential developer with a detailed knowledge of the residential sales market across a broad product range.
• Experience of working with Councils on where sales require relationships with Councils
• Experience in delivering sales programmes ‘outside the box’ in order to deliver successful sales programmes in challenging markets.

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer: 

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes  
• Generous pension contribution  
• Life assurance   
• Private medical insurance (permanent employees only) 
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday 
• Competitive family leave 
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice 
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online   
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart 

The brand with the brolly is choosing today to change tomorrow.

Since 1836, we’ve grown to become one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurance brands. 

We’re all here to improve the lives of our customers, build a better society for the long term, and create value for our shareholders - helping to shape a better future for society and the planet.

We need people who share our ambitions, agility and entrepreneurial spirit to help us do it.

At L&G, you’ll find a balance that helps you be your best. Empowered by hybrid working, we’re supported by technology and workplaces that enable us to work effectively wherever we are. We come together in offices to collaborate and connect, and use time at home for individual, focused activities. And, when we achieve great things, we celebrate our success and reward strong performance.

Today, there’s over 10,000 of us, working towards our mission, with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as we grow L&G. Will you join us?

Great minds don’t have to think alike, so we welcome voices from all backgrounds. Bringing together people with different life experiences helps us build empathy with our customers and drive innovation.

We don’t just talk about it, we actively promote diversity and equitable opportunities for all. That means our employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or protected veteran status. In fact, we embrace every dimension of diversity to reflect the customers and communities we serve.

We think it’s important to create an inclusive environment where we can all belong, contribute and drive progress, where you can develop and grow, and be empowered. We want you to use your voice to help us build a better tomorrow.

We all work differently, and have different needs, which is why. we’re always open to discussing flexible working arrangements. Likewise, we’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs during our recruiting process.

So whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your story, we'd love to hear from you.