Real Estate Sales Assistant

**"Real Estate is not about houses, it's about people."** **_Sir Leslie Joseph Hooker 1903 - 1976_** Our Team at LJ Hooker Geelong is growing Do you have what it takes? Do you enjoy being in a fun, energetic environment and achieving personal and shared goals? LJ Hooker Geelong is looking for an enthusiastic and loyal professional with exceptional presentation and a strong attention to detail. We’d love for you to join our growing team We invest in our people through training and professional development while supporting you along the way—all so you can meet your career goals. To us, the most important measure of our success is yours. At LJ Hooker Geelong we enable our clients to explore the full potential of their properties sale value by highly skilled negotiation and marketing that has multiple touchpoints. We are currently in our second year of business and have already achieved great number of sales in Geelong. We feel that this is the best time to join our highly diverse team, and we’re looking for passionate and curious people who want to be part of a fast-paced, high-energy environment. LJ Hooker has an ethos of encouraging autonomy, ambition and boldness. We value open people who take initiative and aren’t afraid to fail, learn from mistakes, adjust, and try to get better at what they do every day. Sales Assistants play a key role in our sales process. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to impact the growth of our business and support our sales team by engaging new clients. You will reach out to potential clients to learn their current needs with selling their biggest asset (property) and sell our services. This is the perfect role for someone who is a great communicator, competitive, driven, hard-working, and a team player The ideal Sales Assistant will **excel** in the following areas: - Researching new markets, build a pipeline of potential leads, and nurture relationships - Be the face of LJ Hooker, you are the first point of contact to engage our potential customers - Become an expert on our brand, business, and service - Make an average of 30 outbound connects to prospects daily with the goal of scheduling property appraisal appointments - Qualify new leads and follow up on warm leads, own your pipeline - Nurture relationships with potential customers - Book appraisals with qualified - Leads for your Sales Executive team - Meet and exceed quarterly targets - Stay current on industry news and understand the social media landscape **Desired Criteria**: - Successful experience in a new business generation/real estate/inside sales role is an advantage - Ability to effectively communicate an enterprise level solution - Cold calling and door knocking experience an advantage **Essential Criteria**: - Current Victorian Real Estate License/Certificate IV in Real Estate Practice (or equivalent) - Current driver’s license & car. - Be comfortable in taking charge of situations. - Have a strong ability to prioritise and problem solve. - Positivity and determination. - Ability to turn a "no" into a "yes" through consultative questioning and coping with rejection. - Team player attitude, eager to be part of an ambitious team. - Ability to thrive in a bonus driven environment. - Exceptional ability to organize work and tasks. - Excellent written and spoken English skills, any other languages are a plus. - Ability to work in Australia. **What you will get in return**: - Growth potential, Sales Assistant's have a clear growth plan with potential to become Sales Executives. - A competitive salary package with a solid base and a commission model that is designed to ignite you - Latest sales tools and equipment - A self-driven and high-performance culture - Open and informal working environment - High responsibility and excellent career possibilities - Flexible working hours - Sociable culture and tight-knit team - Salary: base + super + commission If this sounds like the opportunity you are looking for, please submit your Cover Letter and Resume. We are looking forward to meeting you **Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent **Salary**: $40,822.00 - $103,704.00 per year Schedule: - 8 hour shift - Flexible hours - Monday to Friday - No weekends Supplemental pay types: - Commission - Performance bonus **Experience**: - Sales: 1 year (preferred) Licence/Certification: - Driver Licence (preferred) - Certificate IV in Real Estate Practice (or equivalent) (preferred) - Victorian Real Estate License (preferred) Work Authorisation: - Australia (required)