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Sales Manager

Job in Cape Town, 7561, South Africa
Listing for: Virgin Active South Africa (Pty) Ltd
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-09-23
Job specializations:
  • Sales
    Director of Sales
  • Management
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Your Purpose...

  • Is to “change people’s lives for the better through wellness”;
  • We deliver social wellness experiences that enable people to meet their personal wellness goals, through holistic physical, mental nutritional and social wellbeing.
  • The purpose of this role is to execute the national sales strategy in club, ensuring strong leadership, planning, and support to achieve club sales unit and revenue targets.
  • The role drives performance through strong leadership, structured activity, people and performance plan.
Your Duties and Responsibilities...

Sales Performance & Delivery

  • Drive achievement of club sales budgets (net member movement & revenue) across the respective club.
  • Translate national strategy into clear, actionable plans Specific to the club need.
  • Monitor daily, weekly, and monthly performance and intervene quickly to close gaps.
  • Report on key sales performance metrics with plans for intervention to maximise or improve.

Activity & Performance Management

  • Ensure consistent activity management within the club (leads, calls, appointments, conversions).
  • Hold Sales Consultants accountable to clear KPIs, standards, and routines.
  • Implement structured performance coaching plans (targets, reviews, corrective action where required).
  • Support clubs through opening lucrative business building opportunities within the relative catchment area of the club.

Coaching, Training & Capability Building

  • Coach Sales Consultants to improve sales performance and, executional excellence, through unreasonable hospitality principles
  • Drive in-club staff coaching, ensuring training is applied and embedded to the required delivery standard.
  • Standardise and scale best-practice sales behaviours in the club.
  • Deliver and facilitate structured training programmes in line with sales team need or as directed regionally or nationally.

Recruitment, Talent Retention & HR Practice

  • Accountable for recruitment, selection, and onboarding of Sales Consultants who thrive within our performance culture and purpose.
  • Build a strong talent pipeline and succession plan for the club
  • Drive a sustainable sales team ensuring the retention of successful sales consultants
  • Ensure HR practices and processes are consistently applied within the club.

Culture & Leadership

  • Build a high-performance, accountable, and disciplined sales culture.
  • Reinforce expectations around urgency, professionalism, and execution excellence.
  • Align all teams to the Social Wellness / 2nd Space value proposition.
  • Ensure the team are fully engaged in our wellness proposition by encouraging product usage.

Member-Centric Growth

  • Ensure the sales team drive quality onboarding and early member engagement.
  • Monitor and improve retention drivers through better sales behaviours.
  • Use member insights to influence long-term value, not just acquisition.

Reporting & Insights

  • Provide clear, data-driven reporting on performance, risks, and opportunities.
  • Use insights to guide decision-making and prioritise actions.
  • Ensure accuracy and discipline in all sales systems and reporting tools.
Our

Minimum Requirements ...
  • Formal Matric qualification
  • 3-4 years’ experience in sales or similar role
  • 1–2 years sales management experience proven experience developing and retention of successful sales teams
  • Strong understanding of the consumer sales process, including pipeline management, lead conversion, performance tracking, and optimization of key conversion metrics.
  • Strong training and coaching ability
  • Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills
  • Proven leadership capability with the ability to inspire, coach, and develop high-performing Sales Consultants
  • Data-driven and analytical, with the ability to translate insights into actionable sales actions

Core Interpersonal

Skills:

  • Emotional Intelligence- proven…
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