Rocksteady Music School

Rocksteady Music School is the UK’s largest rock and pop school. We teach fun and inclusive in-school band lessons to primary age children. Our mission is simple: to amplify children's self-belief and remove barriers to music education. We’re currently in thousands of schools in the UK, teaching tens of thousands of children every week – and we’re growing fast.

Our beautiful converted manor house in rural Liphook is home to our central office teams (this is an office based role). From there, we all play our part in supporting our band leaders to reach as many children as possible with their lessons. We are a community of music lovers using our individual talents to help give children the self-belief to succeed. That’s what gets us out of bed in the morning.

We are seeking a positive, confident Team Leader/ Senior Sales to support our Sales Manager in leading a growing Sales Team. This role requires coaching, training, and process improvement to achieve KPIs and personal sales targets.

The ideal candidate is self-motivated with an enthusiastic attitude, leads by example with strong accountability. Focuses on driving results through continuous improvement, and fosters a supportive, engaging, and motivational team environment.

This is a great opportunity for someone with sales experience ready to step into management and help drive team success in an empowering workplace.

As a Team Leader / Senior Sales – you will provide:

• Team support and guidance: Assist the Sales Manager by leading a small team of Sales representatives, providing daily guidance, support and training.
• High Achiever: Achieve your personal sales target set alongside the management of the individuals in the team and their own targets.
• Sales culture: Confident and lead by example, maintaining personal standards towards your own work and target. Create a high-energy, professional sales culture that motivates and engages the team.
• Motivation and coaching: Inspire and motivate team members, encouraging a positive work environment and helping individuals reach their full potential.
• Sales tracking and reporting: Monitor individual and team sales performance, prepare reports and identify areas for improvement.
• Sales strategy execution: Collaborate with the Sales Manager to implement sales strategies and hit termly targets.
• Consistent training and development: Assist in onboarding new team members and providing ongoing training to ensure the team stays knowledgeable about the world of primary schools.
• Process improvement: Identify opportunities for improvement in sales processes and collaborate with the team to implement changes.
• Accountability: Set weekly objectives around performance and behaviour for your team, ensuring high levels of personal accountability. Manage your own target and schools alongside this, holding yourself to the same high standards set for your team.

As a Team Leader / Senior Sales you’ll need:

• Proven successful experience in a sales role or similar
• Strong leadership and motivational skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Highly organised, with excellent time management
• Strong analytical skills
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Resilient, hard working and self-motivated
• Adaptability in a demanding sales environment
• Strong leadership and coaching abilities
• Strong emotional intelligence as well as self-awareness

We appreciate that previous experience does not always tell the full story so if you like the sound of this role, don’t rule yourself out if you feel you don’t tick all the boxes.

Benefits

• £32k + £8k OTE
• 35 hours working week
• 28 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Free onsite parking
• Personal development opportunities
• Comprehensive benefits package including discounts on everyday purchases, free 24/7 GP service.
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay.
• Employee discount at nationwide music instrument retailers.
• Celebratory staff away-days, Christmas parties and social events.
• Opportunities to work with the Rocksteady Foundation, reaching children and young people in charities and support groups across the UK.

Every once in a while, you get the chance to be part of something really special. When you join Rocksteady, you know immediately that you’ve found it. We might be growing fast but we pay special attention to protecting our unique working culture and ensuring everyone feels comfortable to be themselves at work. We look out for each other, welcome new colleagues as friends and stay true to our small-company roots; rolling up our sleeves if a job needs doing, solving problems together and, most importantly, always putting the children first. Likeminded people are joining us and we’re reaching more and more children with our lessons every week. We keep growing because we’re driven by our passion for the life-changing nature of music.

Join us and use your skills for good.

Your Passion. Their Future.

Additional Information

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and expect all our staff to share this commitment.

As this role involves regular work with children and young people, and meets the definition of regulated activity, it is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 you must disclose all unprotected unspent and spent cautions and convictions. Further details on what convictions must be declared can be found in the Governments Guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975. You can find out more about our policy on recruitment of ex-offenders here.

If you are offered this position, Rocksteady will ask you to complete an enhanced DBS check with a children's barred list check.

It is an offence for an individual who has been barred from working with children to apply for regulated activity. Providing false information is also an offence and could result in the rejection of the applicant, summarily dismissal if selected, and possible referral to the police.

Rocksteady Music School is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to the fair treatment of staff, potential staff, and of our services, regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, responsibilities for dependents, age, physical/mental disability, or offending background.

To find out more about Rocksteady, check out our website www.rocksteadymusicschool.com

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About Rocksteady Music School

Rocksteady is the leading provider of in-school band lessons for primary age children.

Our inclusive approach helps children find a sense of belonging through new friendships and a shared love for music, whilst boosting social skills, wellbeing and confidence.

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