Cantonese Speaking Sales Executive
Role Overview
Serve as the first point of contact for prospective families, managing their journey from initial enquiry through application and enrolment.
This is a sales-focused, target-driven role requiring relationship building, commercial awareness, and confident opportunity conversion.
Manage a high-volume pipeline across phone, email, WhatsApp, and other digital channels while providing a personalized customer experience.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Serve as the first point of contact for prospective families, managing their journey from initial enquiry through application and enrolment.
This is a sales-focused, target-driven role requiring relationship building, commercial awareness, and confident opportunity conversion.
Manage a high-volume pipeline across phone, email, WhatsApp, and other digital channels while providing a personalized customer experience.
Key responsibilities
- Manage prospective families from initial enquiry through enrolment and maintain a strong pipeline of qualified opportunities.
- Drive enquiry-to-application and application-to-enrolment conversion; conduct consultative sales conversations and manage objections.
- Follow up with and re-engage prospective customers, and work toward individual and team activity, conversion, and enrolment targets.
- Coordinate with admissions, customer experience, marketing, and leadership teams.
- Maintain accurate CRM records and use pipeline data to prioritize activity and improve performance.
What we're looking for
- Fluent Cantonese is essential, with excellent spoken and written English.
- Proven experience in sales, business development, account management, admissions, or relationship management; strong track record of achieving commercial or performance targets.
- Experience managing a sales pipeline through a CRM system such as HubSpot, Salesforce, or similar.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills; comfortable in a fast-paced, high-volume, target-driven environment.
- Proactive, resilient, commercially minded approach; cultural awareness and confidence working with international customers.
Working pattern
- The working week may be Monday–Friday or Tuesday–Saturday, from 4am to 1pm, depending on operational requirements.
- International travel and occasional weekend work may be required.
Location and safeguarding
- The role is based in Dubai, UAE.
- New staff undergo enhanced pre-employment clearance, including identity, criminal background, qualification, employment, and reference checks.
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