sales and marketing London, England
Job description
About us:
Uhomes.com, a global apartment booking platform, focus on providing high quality accommodation service for students.
Company Background: Uhomes is a leading global platform for student accommodation, offering a wide range of accommodation options to students across the world. The company was founded in 2015 by a team of experienced professionals in the real estate and technology industries who saw a need for a more streamlined and user-friendly approach to student housing.
Uhomes is backed up by prominent investors including New Oriental, LeoGroup, and TransLink Capital with total fundraise of about USD 35mil
About the Role
Our sales and marketing specialist team are on the frontline of helping to take our business global by serving students from different countries globally.
This role calls for a combination of communication skills, savvy analytics, critical thinking, strong execution and the interpersonal ability to work with teams from across the business. Further, we are under a fast-paced environment, we are looking for a highly adaptable candidate who is able to switch between long-term pivotal initiatives one moment and pivot into rapid, tactical actions the next.
What You'll Do
· Take lead in the region you are responsible for, and become a region expert and train team members
· Build partnership with channels to refer students to us
· Converts prospects and leads into bookings to achieve targeted leasing numbers.
· Plan and organise daily activities to maximise the time to achieve targeted booking numbers.
· Lead the execution of marketing programs from start to finish, leveraging internal support and driving collaboration
· Analyze customer insights, consumer trends, market analysis, and marketing best practices to build successful strategies
· Lead and execute operations of social media accounts
· Recruit and train group leaders, student ambassador to assist with expanding sales distribution channels
What You'll Need
· Experience in video making, livestreaming, and have great ability to write promotional ariticles
· Empathetic in dealing with different people. Able to quickly build relationships with external partners, couriers and internal team members.
· High adaptability to change and ability to execute quickly. Able to pivot quickly from long-term thinking to immediate action tactical response.
· Able to cope with pressure and an environment where not everything works yet. Willing to take ownership of problems rather than worry about whose problem it is.
· Curious and eager to learn about all aspects of the business. Can build up skills and knowledge very fast to become a recognized subject matter expert amongst your peers.
· Vietnamese or Korean speakers are preferred.
· Our Advantage:
· Client/investor resources
· Fund raise of 35mil USD in a few years led to significant growth of the company.
· Great learning and developing opportunity
· Internally we have always been of startup style, you will be able to learn a big picture of how a company runs itself.
· Room for you to make influence
· There is no hierarchy in the organization and we are looking for individuals who are committed and also striving for excellence. If you are such individual, there is a lot of room for you to make serious impact.
We can sponsor you with T5 and T2 work related visas if you are a great fit for this role.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £24,000.00-£30,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company events
- Company pension
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability
Supplemental pay types:
- Performance bonus
Ability to commute/relocate:
- London: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:
- Marketing: 1 year (preferred)
Language:
- Japanese (required)
- Korean (required)
Work Location: In person
