Countrywide may be closing offices and consulting with staff on redundancies – but it is still recruiting.
Our eye was caught by an advert for a senior residential sales and lettings director for London. Experience is, of course, required – but it would appear not in sales or lettings.
The job description on Countrywide’s own careers website starts: “Due to a recent change in our structure Countrywide have a rare and exciting opportunity for a retail director to join the UK’s leading property services company.
“This role will be covering Countrywide brands across London on both sides of estate agency and residential lettings.”
It goes on to explain that the new appointee will help deliver Countrywide’s Building our Future strategy.
The job advert does not mention any requirement for experience in sales or lettings, but does suggest that the successful candidate will have been a “valued member” of a high-performing team within a “highly customer centric service or retail industry environment”.
The job advert is here: https://www.countrywidecareers.co.uk/job/16444
Meanwhile, in Scotland, Countrywide’s Slater, Hogg & Howison has shut down its Troon office after decades in the town. Its phone is being answered by Slater Hogg & Howison’s office in Ayr.
We would also like to wish the best of luck to Nicholas Hextall and William Twiddy who, after some years at John D Wood, have set up their own company, Hextall Twiddy. The Oxfordshire-based company specialises in rural agency work.
They are going to need a magician or Nick Leeson to make the debt vanish . I can imagine many of their talented professionally trained staff will be on the move unwiling to gamble their future property careers to the control of a set of BODS who are floundering .
The fact that she doesnt seem to promote from within surely cant sit well with their senior staff.?
It isnt that far into the future when their banking faciities wil be reviewed This is a company which has dropped £700m of value since the loans . Platt,s “strategic review of LSH” means what can we sell in the group which wont be drastically below book value to keep the banks happy I cant see that any valued members of LSH staff wilbe happy that they are being hawked around the market to the highest bidder who may or may not be a suitable home for them individually
This time next year CWD are going to be a very different animal and not a happy one either
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My Nephew stacks tins for Waitrose (when he doesn’t push shopping carts around the car park)
Do you think he is suitably qualified for the job ?
Because he suffers from dyslexia and the education system failed him miserably this is all the work he can get. That said he probably couldn’t do a worse job than CW are managing by themselves !!!!
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HEY!
That is almost an unfair comment…
..does he have a driving licence?
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They will be employing someone from a retail background for sure. Anyone senior with any estate agency background has already been booted out or they have resigned. The only industry background staff left are us on the ground floorand they are also leaving in vast numbers.
I heard yesterday that none of the mid level senior regional managers/directors and the new retail directors ( old MD) now have no authority on staff wages,promotions, job offers, company car changes, etc, every decision involving cost has been removed hence why so many of the senior directors have chosen to leave. The ones now employed are only there to report figures and performance manage the next in line below. Threats of disciplinary action to staff not performing to the strict and to be honest unrealistic targets for conversion rates when they have pulled all the advertsing, marketing budgets for each branch and put a freeze on new employees in branches where they are down to 1 or 2 people where they are used to running on 4 staff.
All canvass budgets pulled from branches and no funds to order the basic canvass ‘sold in your road’ mailers. And these are the branches that they have chosen to keep open……………..
Wonderful and exciting times for the Countrywide employees.
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