About the Role
Meritage Homes is seeking candidates excited about furthering their careers and bringing their authentic selves to an inclusive organization. Meritage was certified a Great Place To Work for a second year in a row and is ranked on Fortune’s Best Workplaces listings. Meritage has delivered over 200,000 homes in its 40-year history and has a reputation for its distinctive style, quality construction, and award-winning customer experience. Meritage is looking for professionals who are self-starters and want to help our organization grow by providing new and innovative ideas.
Responsibilities
- Embrace Meritage Active Sales (MAS) sales strategies and philosophy to generate new home sales.
- Leverage relationships with Realtors and new home buyers, utilizing all available tools to demonstrate value, sell, and close homes with an emphasis on exceptional customer service.
- Work closely with peers and leaders to develop into a Sales Counselor, meeting Real Estate license requirements where applicable.
- Embrace, promote, and engage in our MAS philosophy and strategies.
- Accomplish sales, closing, and customer service goals, and other objectives as determined by your Sales Leader.
- Train and develop under peers and leadership team to learn the objectives and requirements of becoming a Sales Counselor.
- Prospect for opportunities to influence individual agents and brokers within their assigned DSA to prioritize Meritage Homes’ listings.
- Cultivate new real estate agent relationships through various methods that create long term partnerships.
- Grow recurring business from agents and realtors who we have done business with in the past, leveraging the benefits of Agents Rock.
- Proactively utilize CRM system to effectively and efficiently manage prospecting, sales, and communication efforts with agents and buyers.
- Help connect unrepresented homebuyers to real estate agents and foster the partnership through the homebuying process.
- Actively partner to ensure the overall look of homes, listings, communities, and surrounding area within an assigned DSA are pristine.
- Leverage Meritage taught sales techniques to maximize sales performance.
- Utilize strong social media skills to promote and sell Meritage listings.
- Engage visitors and offer to demonstrate models, amenities, and/or showcase homes depending on needs.
- Staff models or listings as deemed necessary by sales leader in your DSA.
- Strategically utilize all pertinent listing information and marketing collateral material for showings.
- Directly ask for Meritage listings to be included in the agent’s prospective list of homes.
- Provide agents with other listings within a DSA that might meet their customer’s needs.
- Regularly visit agents and agent offices within the assigned DSA to promote MAS, agent programs and incentives, available and future listings.
- Consistently promote and host completed Meritage Homes listings for open house events within the assigned DSA.
- Travel as needed to meet Realtors and their buyers at Meritage listings.
- Present the Meritage Homes Purchase Agreement to buyers in a professional and complete manner.
- Ensure accurate and timely completion of all buyer paperwork and internal reporting information.
- Assist buyers with scheduling appointments with operations managers, mortgage, and title companies.
- Understand the current status of customer loans and facilitate communication between MTH Mortgage and the buyer’s agent.
- Demonstrate strong command of key details for all communities and listings within a DSA.
- Know where to access, and how to use, information important to help agents as they promote Meritage Homes.
- Learn and leverage extensive product knowledge of plans, features, pricing, options, warranties, and construction knowledge specific to Meritage.
- Understand how Meritage differs from new home competitors and used homes in the DSA.
- Know Meritage's unique selling proposition and how to present it to agents and their clients.
- Keep current to understand the resale market and available listings in your assigned DSA.
- Maintain knowledge of local markets statistics, real estate laws/rules, public opinion, local and national trends, and economic trends.
- Update the agent and buyer throughout the entire purchase process.
- Act as point of contact for agents throughout the purchase and assist with resolution of any questions or problems.
- Ensure customer satisfaction from initial visit to closing for agents and their clients.
- Complete all on-boarding and other assigned training.
- Strive to maintain, improve and promote the company’s image with prospects, customers, homeowners, and agents.
- Establish and maintain relationships with realtors and organizations such as MTH Mortgage and Carefree Title.
- Attend weekly sales meetings or other meetings directed by management.
- Special projects and other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- A minimum of 3-5 years of experience with proven success in commissioned sales
- Computer proficient and ability to understand financial principles
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to prospect, build relationships, and develop marketing strategies
- Professional appearance and presentation
- Ability to work evenings, weekends, and some holidays
Skills
- MAS sales strategies
- Customer service
- Sales Counselor development
- Real Estate licensing
- Prospecting
- Relationship building
- Marketing strategies
- CRM system utilization
- Social media
- Sales techniques
- Product knowledge
- Market analysis
- Real estate laws/rules
- Negotiation
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3-5 years
Benefits
- A work environment that encourages creativity and innovative ideas from every level
- An organization that lives by its core values everyday
- Team atmosphere where every individual is considered a vital asset
- State of the art technology to provide an optimal working environment
- A competitive pay structure
- Strong benefits
- Flexibility in work-life integration
- Team-oriented environment where all individuals play an integral role in the company
- Opportunity to further your career in a growing national organization
- Maintain a competitive drive to be the best
About the Company
- Meritage Homes is focused on delivering a Life.Built.Better.®.
- Meritage is committed to building energy-efficient and affordable entry-level and first move-up homes across the US.
- Meritage was certified a Great Place To Work for a second year in a row.
- Meritage is currently ranked on Fortune’s Best Workplaces listings in the categories of Construction, Women and Parents.
- Meritage has delivered over 200,000 homes in its 40-year history.
- Meritage has a reputation for its distinctive style, quality construction, and award-winning customer experience.
