Business Agent - Pubs & Restaurants - Birmingham
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Business Agent - Pubs & Restaurants - Birmingham
[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is looking for a Business Agent to join its Pubs & Restaurants team, based in the Birmingham office. This role involves sourcing and transacting pub and restaurant businesses and property across the West Midlands.
- Reference: RAF 0613
- Location: Birmingham, UK
- Work Type: On-site
- Job Type: Full-time
- Experience Level: Mid-Senior level
About [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]
We are the leading specialist advisor for buying and selling businesses in our sectors – convenience retail, leisure, medical, pubs, restaurants, childcare, healthcare, and hotels. With 90 years of experience, we offer professional brokerage and advisory services through our UK wide team. We pride ourselves in high standards, providing a client-centric experience and building businesses around our clients.
Purpose of the Role
We are looking for an experienced property/business agent to join our Pubs & Restaurants team, to be based in our Birmingham office. The role involves direct responsibility for sourcing and transacting pubs & restaurants businesses and property, covering the West Midlands area. Tasks include generating leads to sell, processing instructions, and managing deals to completion. The agent will identify, contact, and qualify buyers, and will be client-facing, serving as the first point of contact in any sale and dealing with buyers and applicants across the region.
About the Team
The role will report directly to our Regional Director and ultimately to the Sector Managing Director. However, you will also work closely with existing regional fee earners, finance and insurance brokers, support staff and a wider central support team of IT and Marketing personnel. Otherwise, you will be encouraged to forge your own relationships with business stakeholders across a given territory.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Focus on growing our brokerage activity in the pubs & restaurants market across the West Midlands area.
- Generate relationships and develop new business, winning agency mandates across these markets, through various prospecting methods.
- Register and maintain client requirements on our Salesforce CRM system.
- Liaise closely with sector team colleagues in securing, listing, marketing and managing opportunities for sale.
- Negotiate and agree deals, and manage the sales process.
- Provide regular client updates on instruction activity.
Person Specification
Skills and Experience – Essential
- Background in commercial or residential real estate sales
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Highly organised and self-motivated
- Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office – especially Excel and PowerPoint
- UK Driver’s licence and confident with driving long distances
Personal Characteristics
- Strong team player with excellent communication skills
- Self-motivated, proactive, and able to use initiative
- Polite and professional
- Flexible, adaptable, and responsive to change
- Organised, meticulous, and able to prioritise workload effectively
Additional Information
Please note we will not be able to sponsor for this position and therefore only invite candidates permanently settled in the UK or not requiring sponsorship.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.
For more information, please apply today or send any questions to: [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]
How to Apply
If this role sounds like you and something you want to be a part of, please apply now and send us your CV via [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal].