Job Description

Leasing Sales Manager

Citygate Leasing, Marlow

OTE: 55,000

Permanent

Role overview

We're looking for a commercially driven, process-oriented and customer-centric Leasing Sales Manager to lead sales at Citygate Leasing, a new, fast-growing and exciting business within the Citygate Group. The role will have full responsibility for all leasing sales activity, including managing and developing the team of Leasing Executives while also handling their own portfolio of leasing customers.

This is a managerial role within the business, accountable for sales performance, customer experience, team development and the smooth execution of the end-to-end leasing journey. The Leasing Sales Manager will act as the senior customer-facing representative for the business and will play a key role in shaping processes, ways of working and commercial strategy as the business scales.

As a managerial role, this role will offer significant opportunity to grow alongside the growing business and be involved in wider areas including marketing, commercial operations, partner relationships and business growth initiatives. We're looking for a proactive, hands-on leader with strong sales capability, excellent organisational skills and a positive, entrepreneurial mindset who wants to grow alongside an ambitious company.

Key responsibilities

As the Leasing Sales Manager your key responsibilities will be:

Lead, manage and motivate the Leasing Executive team to achieve individual and team sales targets

Personally facilitate leasing sales, acting as a first point of contact for customer inquiries via phone, email and live chat

Own and manage the customer's end-to-end journey from initial inquiry through to vehicle delivery, ensuring a consistently high-quality experience

Monitor, manage and improve sales processes, order processing and administration across the team

Provide coaching, support and performance management to Leasing Executives, including training on products, systems and customer engagement

Address escalated customer inquiries, concerns and feedback with professionalism and a commitment to exceeding expectations

Oversee and manage the order process, including liaison with dealer groups and funding partners to procure vehicles efficiently

Ensure accurate management of customer records, pipeline and orders within the in-house CRM system

Work closely with marketing, dealerships and funding partners to develop and refine product offerings, promotions and sales initiatives

Produce sales reporting and insights to support forecasting, performance tracking and business decision-making

What's in it for you?

With our benefits there is something good for everyone. We're a progressive business that believes building a good team culture is not only good for everyone who works for us - but it makes a difference to how we engage with customers too. That's why when you join Citygate, you can expect to receive a wide range of impressive employee benefits including:

Access to our in-house training academy for everyone

Internal career progression opportunities across our various brands and locations

High street discounts

Wellbeing portal

Employee assistance programme

Purchase, service and parts discounts

Employee referral scheme

Standard company benefits such as pension, life assurance cover, competitive holidays and cycle to work scheme

About You

The successful candidate for this new Leasing Sales Manager position will ideally possess the following skills and experience:

Experience within a car leasing brokerage is preferred, though not essential.

Previous experience in a customer-facing sales role is required, including direct customer interaction, managing sales processes through a CRM system and achieving sales targets.

Prior experience in a sales leadership or management role is highly desirable.

A proven ability to manage people, drive performance and operate in a fast-growth environment is key.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

Company pension Cycle to work scheme Employee discount Enhanced maternity leave Health & wellbeing programme Life insurance On-site parking Referral programme
Work Location: In person