We are seeking sales professionals who want to be part of an innovative and dynamic sales culture that focuses on making a difference in the lives of seniors. Joining the Benchmark Senior Living team means putting your passion to work. Our associates feel a sense of belonging with the care that they provide, empowered by the open and reliable team that surrounds them. Our diverse and skilled workforce takes immense pride in a shared commitment: a devotion to providing caring and dedicated service.
Are you a sales professional who enjoys building relationships and tired of chasing metrics? Are you committed to quality, not just quantity? If you are, then Benchmark Senior Living is looking for YOU! As a Director of Community Relations for Benchmark Senior Living, say goodbye to transactional relationships with prospects, telephone call blitzes and sales urgency built around promotions. Instead, you will drive occupancy in your community by developing meaningful personal relationships with potential residents, their families, and professional partners through our commitment to prospect-centered selling.
Responsibilities
- Supporting prospects throughout the sales process
- Building and managing detailed prospect and professional profiles in our database
- Generating and up keeping your pipeline
- Comprehensive understanding of your community’s competitive market landscape
- Researching and/or visiting competitors’ facilities
- Articulating the Benchmark Difference
- Cultivating and managing reciprocal professional relationships throughout marketplace
- As a Sales & Marketing Director for Benchmark Senior Living, you must be an empathetic, diligent and committed active listener with excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university
- 3-5 years of proven sales experience, preferably in assisted living
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications such as Word, Excel, and Outlook
- Possessing a driver’s license, insurance, and reliable vehicle
- Ability to speak intelligently about our services
As a community leader at Benchmark, you will have access to a variety of benefits including, but not limited to, the following:
- 8 holidays & 3 floating holidays
- Vacation and Health & Wellness Paid Time Off
- Discounted Meal Program
- Associate Referral Bonus Program, up to $1,500
- Physical & Mental Health Wellness Programs
- Medical, Vision & Dental Benefits, upon hire with no waiting period
- Tuition Reimbursement
- 401k Retirement Plan with Company Match
- Company-provided Life Insurance & Long-Term Disability
Benchmark Senior Living is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
We embrace and encourage our associates’ differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our associates unique.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university
- 3-5 years of proven sales experience
- Experience in assisted living
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, and Outlook
- Valid driver's license, insurance, and reliable vehicle
- Ability to speak intelligently about the organization's services
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- Empathy, diligence, commitment, and active listening skills
What We Do
Benchmark Senior Living is a Northeast senior-housing and care provider operating more than 65 communities across nine states. Its offerings include independent living, assisted living, mind and memory care, continuing-care retirement communities, and respite care. The company emphasizes personalized, needs-based services and a mission of transforming lives through human connection, while supporting residents, families, and associates through its care-focused values.
