Residential Development Sales Assistant (Entry level) - 9 month FTC

The Residential Development Sales (RDS), department deals with the sale of plots for several House Builders and Registered Social Landlord’s with clients such as Barratt, Berkeley, Canary Wharf, L&Q, Notting Hill Genesis and A2Dominion.

This full time (35hr a week), 9-month fixed term contract role is an entry level position to assist the department (or relevant team) with administrative support, therefore it would suit someone eager to start their career in a professional services environment. Full training will be provided with regular check-ins to help you achieve learning milestones.

As an entry level Residential Development Sales Assistant, your day-to-day tasks will include:

• Data entry
• Scanning documents and uploading them to our internal document management system
• Dealing with incoming/outgoing post and answering the telephone
• Taking messages and dealing with email requests.

Once you are confident with the core duties of the role, there will be the opportunity to become more involved in contract creation and communication with clients. 

If you are either looking for your first job, returning to work after a career break, or have prior administrative experience, this is a fantastic opportunity to join a friendly and supportive team who will provide you with a clearly defined onboarding plan with learning milestones to make sure you are set up for success.

You will love creating excellent well formatted documents, thrive on the focus required for data entry tasks and enjoy utilising your highly organised systematic approach to complete tasks. You will be able to demonstrate excellent IT skills (Outlook, Excel, Word), and feel comfortable with exploring/learning how technology can streamline processes. A passion for people and providing excellent client/customer care will be a key attribute, as well as the ability to juggle multiple tasks and deadlines.

Winckworth Sherwood is an exciting, diverse, and growing business. We are a full-service law firm with a diverse client base, that prides itself on providing advice across a broad range of sectors and markets. Delivering a first-class service is key to everything we do.

Our clients range from some of the UK’s largest businesses and institutions, housebuilders and developers through to investors, professional partnerships, family offices, not for profit organisations and private individuals – all of which benefit from the flexible, practical approach of our lawyers.

We recognise that our people play a key part in our success and as a result we are committed to their development and well-being. We promote a healthy work-life balance and flexibility, keeping our people motivated and stimulated to deliver great things.

Application review

Your profile will be screened by a member of the WS recruitment team. If you CV is shortlisted, you will be invited to have a short call with our Recruitment Manager, Ash Evans, to discuss your interest in the vacancy. No AI is used in our application screening process! Every candidate who applies to this role will be told if they have been successful or not in moving to the next stage.

Interview (in person at our London office)

You will meet the head of the department and another partner, who will provide more insight into the role, their department and their clients. They will also discuss your experience, and interest in the role. We will also set you a data entry and written exercise. 

This will be a good opportunity to ask any role/firm specific questions.

Every candidate who reaches this stage will be offered the chance to have a feedback call with our Recruitment Manager to understand why they weren't offered the position, so that you can use this feedback to help with other job applications.

Offer of employment

If you are successful and accept our offer of employment, we will submit your details to our background screening company (Giant), who will conduct a series of background checks. Once these have been completed and we have separately validated your proof of right to work in the UK, a start date can be agreed, and your onboarding schedule can be planned.