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Sales Executive (PBSA/BTR)
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Sales Executive (PBSA/BTR)
🔍 Sales Executive – Student Accommodation (PBSA/BTR) Location: Sheffield City Centre (office-based, hybrid, or remote)
💰 Compensation: Base Salary: £24,500 plus commission (on-target earnings: £35,000).
📌 About the Role
Are you a confident, persuasive Sales Executive who thrives on speaking to people and closing deals?
Our rapidly growing PBSA/BTR (Purpose Built Student Accommodation / Build to Rent) team is hiring a Sales Executive to convert student demand into bookings. This role is fast-paced and high-volume, with the majority of your time spent on calls, emails, and WhatsApp, pursuing and securing bookings.
You’ll report directly to the Head of New Business (PBSA/BTR) in a small but impactful team (currently four people) as we enter an exciting phase of growth.
This is all about speedy, professional student-to-booking conversion, ensuring an exceptional experience at every step. While there’s occasional administrative support (e.g., listing accuracy or updating operator info), the focus remains firmly on sales conversion and achieving booking outcomes.
Important note: This role involves no cold calling—your job is to follow up warm student queries, build rapport quickly, and confidently move conversations toward bookings.
⏰ Working Pattern
- Core office hours: Mon–Thu: 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM | Fri: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (with a one-hour unpaid lunch).
- Shifts: Three core-hour shifts, two late shifts per week (12:00 PM – 8:30 PM, including a one-hour unpaid break).
- Flexibility: Occasional weekend work may be required depending on demand.
✅ Key Responsibilities
- Rapidly progress warm student enquiries to confirmed bookings.
- Manage high-volume calls, emails, and WhatsApp conversations while staying organised and maintaining quality under pressure.
- Build trust as your go-to point of contact—provide accurate property details and guide students through booking procedures specific to PBSA operators.
- Collaborate with PBSA operations teams and internal staff to ensure seamless bookings.
- Occasionally visit PBSA sites or operator locations to deepen product knowledge and strengthen partner relationships.
- Support light operational duties, such as updating operator info or listing accuracy.
- Use Salesforce and defined processes to track leads, follow-ups, and booking statuses consistently and efficiently.
- Proactively flag and resolve issues while keeping students informed to maintain a smooth journey.
- Occasionally assist with reporting or administrative requests.
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🔷 Skills and Experience
- Essential:
- Proven success in a telesales, inside sales, or high-volume sales role, ideally in property, student accommodation, PBSA/BTR, or a related sector.
- Strong ability to handle rejection and keep momentum high during high-pressure sales sessions.
- Natural charm as a rapport-builder with exceptional influencing and closing skills.
- Experience or strong enthusiasm for the student accommodation sector (a must-have).
- Proficiency with Salesforce or CRM systems.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Highly organised, detail-focused, and capable of managing multiple priorities efficiently.
- Self-driven and collaborative with a team mindset.
🏗️ About Us
At UniHomes, our mission is to revolutionise student rental experiences across the UK. As the leading student accommodation platform (with over 60 cities served) and a trusted utility management provider, we simplify finding and securing accommodation through seamless, stress-free technology.
Driven by innovation, we’re developing a single digital hub that streamlines the entire student rental journey—every demand, every step. Guided by a student-centric approach, growth-focused culture, and partnership with MSPs and suppliers, we’ve secured consistently high ratings from sources like EY Entrepreneur of the Year and Deloitte UK Fast 50.
Our Sheffield City Centre headquarters houses a 140+ strong team, where collaboration, creativity, and ambitious expansion are at the core. We’re redefining how students secure their dynamic “home away from home,” with new ventures and ambitious initiatives shaping the future of accommodation solutions.
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💡 Our Core Values
- Lead the Way
- In it Together
- Customers Matter
- Keep it Simple
- Rise Above Challenges
- Make it Happen
🎁 Benefits
At UniHomes, we prime your career and elevate your workday with a generous and inclusive employee offer:
- Great Workplace Recognition: Certified as a Great Place to Work® (GPTW) and an accredited Living Wage employer.
- Compensation: Fair Living Wage above the UK minimum.
- Lifestyle Perks:
- Complimentary breakfast, drinks, snacks, and a pool table in our Sheffield office at New Era Square.
- Holidays, length of service days, voluntary day off, enhanced pension savings (executive eligibility), and payroll-connected pension salary sacrifice.
- Private healthcare scheme, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), extended sick pay, and enhanced maternity/paternity leave.
- Career Growth:
- Personal/professional development devotedly supported, including plans for career progression.
- Employee awards, “refer a friend” schemes, and staff discounts.
- Dedicated mental health and financial support, plus regular social events to foster connectivity.
We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, recognising the value of different perspectives and creating a workplace where everyone thrives.
🚦 Inclusivity and Accessibility
If you require reasonable adjustments to make application processes accessible, please let us know.
📝 Eligibility
Applicants must already possess UK work rights, unrestricted. Visa sponsorship is unavailable as we lack a sponsor licence.
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📢 Additional Notes
- No agency submissions accepted; resumes from prospective candidates are encouraged.
- A HaftHR-processed application process applies (no submission to email).
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