Job Introduction
What you’ll do
Are you from a housing and sales background and have strong negotiation skills? Do you want to contribute towards providing high quality homes and making a difference in people’s lives? Join our Business Development team as a Sales and Leasing Manager and play a vital role in maintaining the quality of our temporary housing portfolio.
Reporting to the Portfolio Lead, you will take ownership of an allocated area, finding and securing new properties to grow your portfolio. Along with generating new business, you will also work with existing customers to renew/extend current arrangements. Your keen eye for quality will be crucial in assessing and improving the homes within your patch, ensuring our residents have access to safe, compliant, and desirable living spaces.
You will regularly travel across London, meeting residents in their homes and inspecting properties.
Please note this role will be known internally as Portfolio Manager.
How you’ll do it
Our business development team works alongside our resident-facing colleagues and managers across supported and temporary housing, to deliver excellent services in quality homes and places. You’ll need to work well under pressure delivering a ‘can do’ and high-quality support service in an area where attention to detail is critical but knowing that you’ll be part of a friendly and supportive team.
Specific duties will include:
- Proactively find and secure new properties
- Devise and deliver effective advertising and marketing strategies to attract customers and find new properties
- Build strong relationships with local authorities and external partners to respond proactively to demand
- Deliver strong financial arrangements through excellent negotiation and commercial awareness
- Inspect homes across London and work with customer to extend current agreements
- Work in partnership with colleagues and landlords to ensure works are carried out to improve properties where needed
The ideal candidate
You will be key to delivering stable, high-quality homes to our residents living in temporary housing. As the environment is extremely busy, we’ll be counting on you to proactively work with your team and stakeholders to deliver an excellent service. You will also need to have excellent persuasion skills and manage stakeholder relationships well.
Essential:
- Knowledge of the private rental sector
- Extensive experience of securing new business
- Excellent investigative, influencing, and negotiating skills
- A customer focused mindset and passion for providing good homes, with an ability to recognise defects and appropriate remedies
- Evidence of building and maintaining strong working relationships
- A commercial mindset with evidence of securing sound financial arrangements
Once you join us, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to grow within our organisation. You’ll also have access to a wide range of learning opportunities to help you achieve and maximise your potential.
Benefits include:
- Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply)
- Generous pension scheme
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay in addition to statutory entitlements (qualifying period may apply)
- Employee assistance - free confidential advice and counselling services provided by independent specialist organisations.
- Health cash plan
- Staff discounts - we give our staff access to discounts at hundreds of major retailers, gyms, restaurants, entertainment, days out, insurance, and much more.
- Interest free loans - season ticket loan, tenancy deposit loan, and training loan
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Life Assurance x 4 annual salary
All about us
Notting Hill Genesis is a not-for-profit organisation providing affordable homes for Londoners and it is now one of the largest housing associations in London. We are both a landlord and a developer, with more than 60,000 existing homes and 10,000 more in our pipeline and we employ around 1,500 staff.
For more information on what we do and what makes us different please visit:
We welcome applications from everyone. We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer amongst other diversity commitments. To find out more about our approach to equality, diversity and inclusion please visit: https://group.nhg.org.uk/careers/diversity-is-our-strength/
Selection Process
Step 1: If you are interested, please send your application now! Closing date is Tuesday 5th November at 23:59
Step 2: Successful candidates will be asked to do an assessment
Step 3: Successful candidates will be invited to interview
Please apply for this role online. If you are not able to apply online or if you have any reasonable adjustment requirements arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our hiring team via jobs@nhg.org.uk.
Should a redeployee apply for this role, their application will be considered before any others.
NHG reserves the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role, so we advise you to submit your application at your earliest opportunity.
