Business Broker - Retail

Business Agent - Retail

About Us

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 our high standards, providing a client centric experience and building business around our clients through tailoring our services.

Purpose of the role

We are looking for an experienced property/business agent to join our Retail team, to be based in our Glasgow or Edinburgh office. The role involves direct responsibility for sourcing and transacting retail businesses and property, covering the Northern and Scotland regions. 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 retail market across the Northern and Scotland regions.
• 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

• Minimum of 1 year experience in commercial real estate sales or another client facing position in the commercial real estate sector; Essential
• Strong verbal and written communication skills; Essential
• Highly organised and self-motivated; Essential
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office – especially Excel and PowerPoint; Essential
• UK Driver’s licence and confident with driving long distances; Essential

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

What we offer

• A competitive commission structure
• Car allowance and Insurance for you plus one
• Mileage Allowance Relief
• Fuel card
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Holiday carryover & additional Christmas leave
• Life assurance
• Employee wellbeing assistance via Plumm
• “Recommend a Friend” employee referral bonus
• Enhanced family friendly leave
• Cycle to work scheme
• Eyecare vouchers

Our Values

Adaptable, Collaborative, Innovative, Personal and Trusted, you can learn more about life at Christie & Co here: https://www.christie.com/careers/what-makes-the-christie-co-experience/

Please apply today, or for more information, contact: [email protected]

Christie & Co is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our policy is clear: there shall be no discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, or sexual orientation.