Job Description
Who are Christie & Co?
We’re the leading specialist advisor for buying and selling businesses in our sectors - hotels, pubs, restaurants, childcare, healthcare, convenience retail, leisure and medical.
Where we work
We employ the largest team of sector specialists in the UK and the largest group of hotel specialists in Europe, providing professional brokerage and advisory services from offices in major cities across Britain and Europe. And because we’ve been doing this for over 80 years, we know our sectors and local markets inside out. We work closely with our clients to guide and conclude transactions of any size, covering hotels, restaurants and pubs, leisure, forecourts and convenience retail businesses, social care and elderly care, childcare & education facilities, dental practices and pharmacies.
The Role
Purpose of the Role
We require a Graduate Trainee Negotiator to join our successful Pubs & Restaurants Team to support colleagues in managing the sale of specialist pubs & restaurants businesses. You will assist in the full lifecycle of a business sale from generating initial leads, conducting viewings, processing instructions to deal management. This means you will have full exposure to clients, their business for sale and applicants. If successful there is further opportunity to develop into a full fee earning business agent. This is a great opportunity. If you are looking to gain your APC and track to obtain a Chartered Surveyor qualification.
The role can develop into a fee earning full time negotiator role if the candidate is suitable.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Client customer care responsibilities
- Managing applicant calls and emails requesting information on current instructions.
- Registering requirements and ensuring applicants receive new instructions / remarketed instructions.
- Assisting with business generation initiatives such as list building and preparation of marketing collateral
- Preparing supporting information to help colleagues pitch for new work.
- Accompanying brokers on sales pitches to local and regional clients.
- Arranging viewings and administering offers.
- Accompanied viewings.
- Checking paperwork for buyer and seller compliance
- Assisting with events and meeting preparation
- Uploading and downloading images and documents on our IT systems
- Preparing, sending, and monitoring mail and email campaigns
- Working as part of our motivated team to enhance our reputation and profile UK wide.
Working Relationships and Contacts
The role will report directly to a regional Director and ultimately to the UK Managing Director. However, you will also work closely with regionally based fee earners, locally based support staff and a wider central support team of IT and Marketing personnel.
General Responsibilities
- To be a good ambassador for the company.
- To adhere to the company’s Equal Opportunities policy in all activities, and to actively promote equality of opportunity wherever possible.
- To be responsible for your own health and safety and that of your colleagues, in accordance with the Health & Safety at Work Act (1974) and relevant EC directives.
- To work in accordance with the Data Protection Act.
- To undertake such other duties as may be reasonably expected.
Person Specification
Skills and Experience
- GSCEs or equivalent grade C or above Maths and English; Essential
- Minimum 1 year working in property sales or other client facing environments; Desirable.
- Property related degree educated; Desirable.
- Studying towards your APC to become a Chartered surveyor; Desirable.
- Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office- especially Excel & PowerPoint; Essential
- Strong Verbal & Written communication skills; Essential
- Previous experience in sales; Desirable
- Highly organised and self-motivated; Essential
Personal Characteristics
- Strong team player
- Self-motivated, persistent, and intuitive
- Polite and professional
- Excellent communicator
- Proactive, organised and meticulous
- Enjoy working in a fast-paced environment.
- Flexible and adaptable, responding well to change.
- Able to use your own initiative.
- Able to effectively prioritise workload.
- Able to work under pressure and to deadlines.
What we offer
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Life assurance
- Employee wellbeing assistance via Plumm
- Cycle to work scheme
- Eye care vouchers
