Sales Manager
Virgin Active South Africa (Pty) Ltd
Gqeberha/Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape
Permanent
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Posted 13 October 2025

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Job Description

Your Purpose...

  • To make exercise irresistible
  • To, on a monthly basis, deliver club sales results in line with, or exceeding, budget.
  • To create and maintain high performing sales team, to achieve our customer acquisition and revenue growth targets. This means the role will be responsible for maximizing our sales team
  • potential through, couching, and adjusting the sales plans as needed, to ensure the desired result is achieved.

Your Duties and Responsibilities...

  • To achieve growth and consistently achieve on sales targets by successfully leading the sales team.
  • Achieve sales objectives by making recommendations to sales plans and reviews, preparing, and completing action plans for the sales team, and coaching the team for successful delivery.
  • Implementing customer-service standards; resolving queries; completing audits; identifying trends and implementing change, as needed.
  • Maintain and develop a high-performance sales team with the focus on accomplishing sales objectives by leading, developing, couching, and mentoring; communication job expectations; planning, monitoring, and reviewing job contributions; developing and reviewing compensation actions; enforcing policies and procedures, etc.
  • Performing administrative and all management functions in the line with daily, monthly, and quarterly deadlines.
  • Performing manager on duty (MOD) duties (Fitness and Fitness Plus only, other club types as required)
  • Selling memberships to achieve the set monthly budget and sales goals.
  • Completing all administrative procedures as required by the company.
  • Will need to proactively identify opportunities, and market Virgin Active memberships to the community surrounding the clubs and / or corporate organisations.
  • Will be required to actively follow up on leads provided in club and surrounds Maintain the sprint backlogs with the Scrum teams.
  • Monitoring deliverables and ensuring timely completion of projects.

Our Minimum Requirements...

We can't live without...
  • Matric Certificate
  • Relevant tertiary qualification advantageous
  • At least 2 years’ experience within a sales management role, i.e., managing a sales team.
  • At least 4 years’ previous experience within the sales environment (similar industry preferable)/ sales consultant role
  • Must be able to show a proven, successful track record in a solution sale environment.
  • Must be highly numerate, financially astute and be able to understand budgeting processes.
  • Must have proven knowledge of Financial reports, e.g., P&L
  • Excellent analytical and organizational skills
  • Must know how to negotiate and close deals under pressure.
  • Successfully completed Pro – active Sales Manager training (Internal Candidates)

We’d like you to have…
  • Adaptability (must be able to adapt to a fast paced, changing environment)
  • Be curious (must be willing to succeed, seek opportunities to learn and grow)
  • Have a winning mentality (must be willing to go over and above to achieve success)
  • Must be motivated to achieve success.
  • A commitment to making a difference in people’s lives.
  • A Growth mindset
  • The ability to work independently.
  • Trustworthiness (must always act in doing the right thing)
  • A drive to create moments of magic for our members.
  • The ability to make decisions and take ownership and responsibility for the decision.
  • Action orientation

We’d love you to have…
  • Wellness knowledge, beyond the health club
  • The ability to make quick and bold decisions.
  • The ability to be agile.
  • The ability to be collaborative.
  • High Interpersonal skills (EQ)