Area Director - Lettings at Rightmove

Area Director – Lettings

Reporting to: Sales Director South – Estate Agency

Responsible for Account Managers based : Nationally

Workplace: Remote and field-based

The Role:

We are expanding our Lettings team to reflect the huge growth potential we see in the rental market. There has been an unprecedented level of high demand for properties. Our Lead to Keys feature is the only fully integrated platform that gives letting agents the ability to advertise properties to the largest audience in the UK, manage tenant enquiries efficiently, reference tenants and progress the legal and compliance aspects of a tenancy. This is all the way from advertising a property to handing the keys over. Since launch in October 2023 we have seen huge uptake of the platform and it is making a significant difference to our lettings customers. The Team’s role is to ensure the benefits of Lead to Keys and the Rightmove platform is maximized by all relevant lettings agents.

The Platform:

One website. 2.5 billion visits in a year. 65 million leads sent to our customers.  Opportunities for you to grow and develop.

At Rightmove, we care just as much about HOW you do something as what you do.  That’s why our core values are called “Rightmove Hows”.  Here’s just a few:

• Building great teams, because Rightmove is people
• Driving improvement, we can always be better
• Taking responsibility and make things that matter happen

If those things make you sit up and take notice – then sounds like you might be a Rightmover in the making. 

A day in the life of an Area Director

• Inspire your team by communicating a clear vision of what is expected, role modelling the required behaviors and creating the right environment for your team to deliver the account plans and achieve targets / objectives
• Have a plan, set objectives & help your team define their own plans to achieve targets and objectives.
• Appraise the performance of individual team members to ensure they are focused on activities that support both business development and great account management whilst adding value to our customers and the business.
• Identify and maintain resource requirements for own area in relation to turnover, absence, recruitment to meet resource plan and succession planning.
• Develop relationships with key customers and influencers in the lettings market.
• Be an internal champion of the lettings proposition, ensuring it is incorporated into wider business pitches where appropriate.
• Be comfortable in adapting to change and leading a team through this with positive intent and willing to explore different avenues to deliver success.
• Conduct regular and effective coaching & 1-2-1’s and performance management.
• Develop your team through identification of learning needs to enable them to reach their full potential in line with company objectives.
• Manage the day-to-day relationships with external parties in support of company objectives and policy.

Overall, if you hear an objection or get challenged and you automatically think, “This is my opportunity to make a difference”, Rightmove could be the place where you kick your career into gear.

What do our team say about working here? 

“Its like running your own business. It’s not a 9-5 job, and it’s not your average sales job – it’s much more”   

“Everyone in the team is passionate about Rightmove. I feel really proud to work in the team and being part of its success” “Joining the team was the best decision I made and this was reinforced by the team welcoming me and sharing their” “Knowledge and experience at every opportunity”.

We know how important your home life is to your wellbeing.  So we’ve got benefits to help carry the Rightmove feel-good factor through to every aspect of your life.  Here are some examples of our benefits:

Training

• Specialist induction course with practical, hands on experience.
• Regional and national meetings to bring together the entire Management team for ongoing development and support

Health

• Private Health care for you and your immediate family with extra perks
• Cash plan for dental, optical and physio appointments

Money

• Contributory stakeholder pension
• Optional sharesave scheme
• Life assurance at 4x your basic salary to a spouse, family member or other nominated person in your life

Flexibility

• Work is what you do, not where you are.  So we strive to provide a flexible workplace where you can enjoy mixing working from home with being in the field to visit your customers.
• The autonomy to run your patch, your way.
• Choose to increase or decrease your holiday entitlement on an annual basis (on top of your 27 days of paid holiday)

These aren’t just a list of benefits, they’re part of how we help you “Find your Happy”.  It’s not just our tagline - 88% of Rightmovers say Rightmove is a great place to work.

About Us 

We are on a mission to ‘help people make the right move’, we launched in 2000 with a will to make home-hunting happy, by showing all property in just one place.

A great success story, we’re now the biggest home-grown web brand in the UK our traffic levels surpassed only by Facebook, Google, YouTube, eBay and Amazon. 

Despite this success, we remain a down-to-earth bunch. To join us in our mission, we look to recruit people who share  the same values and beliefs as we’ve always had, because Rightmove is people. We call it the secret to our success and why staying 10 years or longer, reaching ‘gnome status’, is simply the Rightmove way.

We encourage and support all Rightmovers to continuously develop themselves. Together we work towards the best outcome, both in terms of our technical solutions and continued business growth. We are always on the lookout for the great new people to join our team. If you are a smart and passionate initiative-taker then get in touch. You could be part of the next chapter of the Rightmove story! Will you be ‘Gnomed?’

Did you know?

• Rightmove was meant to be called 'Doorknob.' But it didn't quite have the same ring to it
  
• We still have employee #1 working at Rightmove
• We currently have 93 gnomes on our gnome tree