Sales Manager - George
Virgin Active South Africa (Pty) Ltd
Vacancy at a glance
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Overview
The purpose of this role is to execute the national sales strategy in club, ensuring strong leadership, planning, and support to achieve club sales unit and revenue targets. The role drives performance through strong leadership, structured activity, people and performance plan.
Requirements
- Formal Matric qualification
- 3-4 years’ experience in sales or similar role
- 1–2 years sales management experience
- Proven experience developing and retention of successful sales teams
- Strong understanding of the consumer sales process, including pipeline management, lead conversion, performance tracking, and optimization of key conversion metrics
- Strong training and coaching ability
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills
- Proven leadership capability with the ability to inspire, coach, and develop high-performing Sales Consultants
- Data-driven and analytical, with the ability to translate insights into actionable sales actions
- Emotional Intelligence
- Active Listening
- Cultural Awareness and Fluency
- Empathy
- Attention to Detail
- Resilience and Composure
- Problem solving and conflict resolution
- Adaptability
- Relatability
- Situational Awareness
- Curiosity
- Time Management
- Digital Fluency
Responsibilities
- Drive achievement of club sales budgets (net member movement & revenue)
- Translate national strategy into clear, actionable plans specific to the club need
- Monitor daily, weekly, and monthly performance and intervene quickly to close gaps
- Report on key sales performance metrics with plans for intervention
- Ensure consistent activity management within the club
- Hold Sales Consultants accountable to clear KPIs, standards, and routines
- Implement structured performance coaching plans
- Support clubs through opening lucrative business building opportunities
- Coach Sales Consultants to improve sales performance
- Drive in-club staff coaching
- Standardise and scale best-practice sales behaviours
- Deliver and facilitate structured training programmes
- Accountable for recruitment, selection, and onboarding of Sales Consultants
- Build a strong talent pipeline and succession plan for the club
- Drive a sustainable sales team ensuring retention of successful sales consultants
- Build a high-performance, accountable, and disciplined sales culture
- Ensure the sales team drive quality onboarding and early member engagement
- Provide clear, data-driven reporting on performance, risks, and opportunities
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