What Jobs are available in Lower Stratton?

We have a new opportunity for a Sales Consultant to join our team within Vistry Cotswolds, at our Swindon site (SN4 0SN). As our Sales Consultant, you will carry out all aspects of the day to day running of the sales hub/development in accordance with the customer journey, taking ownership for the sales process with customers, maintaining necessary records and documentation during all stages of the sales progress across a number of sites and house ranges within the sales hub/development and delivering successful continual sales at all sites within the sales hub/development.

We value in-person collaboration and team culture, but we’re also committed to supporting flexible working where possible. We encourage you to raise any specific requirements during the interview process so we can explore how this could be accommodated.

This role will involve an element of weekend working.

• Competitive basic salary and annual bonus
• Salary sacrifice car scheme available to all employees
• Mileage allowance
• Up to 33 days annual leave plus bank holidays increasing to up to 39 days with service
• 2 Volunteering days per annum
• Private medical insurance, with employee paid cover
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave 
• Competitive pension scheme through salary sacrifice
• Life assurance at 4 x your annual salary
• Share save and share incentive schemes
• Employee rewards portal with many more benefits…

• Behave in line with our company values – Integrity, Caring and Quality
• Experience working in a customer facing role delivering under pressure
• Experience in generating leads and sales through telephone-based business development.
• Proven track record of successfully completing the sales process with customers
• Proven ability to work under pressure and meet sales targets
• Excellent IT skills with demonstrable knowledge of Microsoft Office tools
• Strong negotiation and sales skills
• Excellent administration and organisational skills
• Good planning and organisational skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Patience and ability to remain calm under pressure
• A friendly, trustworthy, and professional attitude
• Comfortable using multi-channel forms of communication
• Ability to handle complaints and difficult situations
• An interest in property and the housing market
• Willing to be flexible in respect of day-to-day duties and hours worked
• Full driving licence and access to a suitable vehicle
• Willing to travel to all sales sites within the division, including regional offices
• Willing to work weekends

Desirable…

• 5 GCSEs / GCE or equivalent including Mathematics and English (at C grade or above)
• A Levels in any discipline

• Ensure all relevant Standard Operating Procedures, sales and all other policies & procedures are understood and adhered to, and that mandatory training requirements are kept up to date.
• Implement Vistry’s continuous drive to deliver excellent customer service by advocating the customer journey and consistently exceeding customer expectations.
• Assist with internal or external audit as required in line with Vistry Values of ICQ.
• Use Vistry systems to perform and execute your role requirement to drive excellence and ensure clarity of information records for business needs and demands.
• Conduct yourself with internal and external stakeholders as ambassadors of Vistry.
• Proactively seek out prospective sales and follow up all enquiries with telephone communication and marketing literature to optimise the business opportunity for sales on your designated development(s).
• Manage and implement new innovation in fulfilling the business targets on new home sales and negotiate with customers to ensure the best sales outcome.
• Awareness of local market and economic conditions.
• Travel to all designated developments to undertake pre booked customer appointments.
• Maintain detailed knowledge of all relevant Vistry house types, build progress and availability within the designated developments, to ensure each customer is given every opportunity to purchase a new home.
• Maintain detailed knowledge of all relevant purchase assistance schemes, alternative site’s and house types, to ensure every customer is offered a bespoke choice of purchase options.
• Proactively sell customer extras and manage implementation across all reservations to drive additional profit for the Company.
• Respond to all cancellations making every effort to ‘save’ and if necessary, re negotiate the reservation, identifying the reason for cancellation and offer any suitable alternatives on other Vistry developments.
• Work with the Site teams to understand the build progress to provide customer information as required.
• Work alongside colleagues within the designated developments to ensure all aspects of the sales process is communicated to the team, customer and relevant stakeholders.
• Take responsibility for all company property, equipment and presentation across each site within the specified developments.
• Maintain the sales arena including show homes on the development in line with brand and company standards.

We build more than homes, we’re making Vistry. Being a responsible developer and award-winning employer means we live each day through our ethos - doing the right thing. Our behaviours reflect this, as well as our values of integrity, caring and quality. Shaping all we do; they empower us to develop sustainable communities across affordable and private housing. We work in a partnership-led way, and you’ll recognise our renowned brands Bovis Homes, Linden Homes and Countryside Homes. Together with Vistry Works, our manufacturing operation, and the functional support of Vistry Services, we’re a proud UK Green Building Council member, UK top five housebuilder with a five-star House Builders Federation (HBF) customer satisfaction rating, and winner of many awards including Top Employer, Global Top Inspiring Workplaces, and Best for Talent Attraction and Outreach. 

Join us in making Vistry.  

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Private Client Associate Solicitor – Swindon

This is a lovely opportunity for a Private Client Associate to join a friendly and highly regarded Legal 500 team in Swindon. You’ll be part of a supportive firm known for delivering exceptional client service across Wiltshire.

Working with a mix of local families, business owners and high-net-worth individuals, you’ll handle a varied caseload including:

• Wills, estate planning and inheritance tax advice
• Probate and estate administration, including complex matters
• Lasting Powers of Attorney and Court of Protection applications
• Trust creation, administration and variations (including Disabled Person’s and discretionary trusts)

You’ll collaborate closely with accountants, financial advisers and other professionals on multi-layered estates, family trusts and succession planning — offering clear, practical advice at what is often a sensitive time for clients.

About You:
This Legal 500 law firm are looking for a solicitor with around 3–4 years’ PQE:

• With solid experience across the full range of private client work
• Combines technical accuracy with warmth and empathy
• Enjoys client contact and building long-term relationships
• Is proactive, collaborative and keen to develop within a well-respected team

STEP or Association of Lifetime Lawyers membership (or working towards it) is desirable.

What’s on Offer?

• Competitive salary and benefits
• Hybrid and flexible working
• High-quality, interesting work with genuine career progression

If this private client opportunity sounds of interest then click apply to Loraine Silvester at G2 Legal or Im happy to have a confidential chat. 

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Residential Conveyancing Solicitor/Legal Executive - Swindon 

This opportunity is at a Chambers-listed, Legal 500 firm in Swindon who are looking to hire a senior solicitor or legal executive at Senior Associate or Partner level to build and leading a new team in residential conveyancing. 

What's attractive about this opportunity? 

• Be part of a renowned Legal 500 and Chambers-listed law firm known for its excellence in property law
• Take on a senior, leadership role, building and leading your own team
• Join a growing department with clear pathways for a clear path to career progression

As a Residential Property Conveyancer, you will:

• Manage sales and purchases of high-value residential properties.
• Provide legal guidance on buy-to-let investments and property portfolios
• Assist clients with shared ownership schemes and related legalities
• Support and develop junior team members

What experience is needed:

• Qualified Solicitor/Licensed Conveyancer/Legal Executive ideally with at least 8 PQE
• Demonstrated ability to manage a complex and high-value caseload independently
• Business development and marketing is essential for this role
• Experience in mentoring junior solicitors and contributing to departmental growth

What’s on offer:

• Competitive salary
• Bonus scheme
• Enhanced contribution pension scheme
• Free parking 
• Life assurance 
• Private medical insurance 

To apply, please submit your CV now or for a confidential discussion contact Loraine Silvester at G2 Legal 

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Family Solicitor – Swindon

A long-standing law firm with a strong reputation for both private and commercial legal services is looking to expand its Family Law team in central Swindon.

About the role:

An opportunity has opened for a Family Solicitor with around 2+ years PQE to join its expanding department. You’ll handle a broad caseload of privately funded family work including:

• Divorce and separation
• Financial settlements (including high net worth cases)
• Cohabitation and civil partnership matters
• Pre- and post-nuptial agreements
• Child arrangements and parenting issues
• Mediation and dispute resolution

What experience is required?

• Qualified Solicitor with at least 2 years’ experience in family law
• Strong background in private family matters
• Ideally, Resolution membership
• A client-focused mindset with empathy and attention to detail
• Interest in business development and marketing initiatives

Why Apply?

• Be part of a friendly and high-performing team
• Real opportunities to develop your skills and progress your career
• Supportive working culture with a reputation for excellence

If you're looking for a new challenge in family law and want to join a firm where your career can truly grow, this could be the perfect fit.

Apply now by sending your CV to Loraine Silvester at G2 Legal.

Commercial Real Estate Solicitor – Swindon

This opportunity is to work at a Legal 500 law firm who is expanding its Swindon office due to an increase in high-value commercial property work. It is seeking a Commercial Real Estate Solicitor circa 2-3 PQE to join the team who is ranked in Legal 500. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Advise on Commercial Leases (Landlord & Tenant) and complex high-value transactions
• Lead acquisitions & disposals of leasehold and freehold commercial properties
• Support large-scale Development & Planning projects
• Build and maintain strong client relationships with owners, occupiers, investors and developers

Skills & Experience:

• 2+ years PQE in Commercial Real Estate law 
• Proven track record advising landlords, tenants, developers and investors
• Excellent drafting, negotiation and commercial problem-solving skills
• Business development mindset with proactive relationship building

Why Join?

• Work on high-profile, challenging commercial real estate matters in a top-tier Legal 500 firm
• Progressive, commercially driven culture with clear career progression
• Collaborative, supportive environment valuing entrepreneurial thinking

This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated commercial real estate lawyer to join a growing, ambitious and highly ranked firm.

To apply, please submit your CV to Loraine Silvester at G2 Legal or call for a confidential chat.

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Junior Corporate Solicitor – Swindon

A great opportunity has arisen for a junior Corporate Solicitor to join a thriving Legal 500-ranked commercial law firm in Swindon. This role is part of the firm’s strategic expansion of its corporate and business team and will offer exposure to a broad spectrum of corporate legal work.

You’ll be advising clients across sectors such as technology, life sciences and IT, supporting both established businesses and fast-growing startups.

Your role will involve:

• Advising on mergers & acquisitions (M&A)
• Handling private equity investments and management buyouts (MBOs)
• Drafting shareholder and partnership agreements
• Supporting joint ventures and corporate governance matters
• Assisting with group restructures and reorganisations

You’ll manage your own files while collaborating with senior lawyers on more complex transactions. 

What experience is desired?

• Qualified solicitor with 2+ years’ PQE in corporate law
• Experience in M&A and private equity deals
• Keen interest in networking and growing the firm’s presence

In return you will receive:

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• Clear career development pathways and leadership opportunities
• Supportive team culture with access to high-profile cases

If you would like to apply, click now with your updated CV to Loraine Silvester at G2 Legal 

**Important notice** 

In line with our redeployment policy, we’ll prioritise applications from employees who are under formal notice of redundancy. 

We’re looking for a Brand Protection Manager to oversee our portfolio of trade marks, trade mark strategy and guidelines, and to give measured professional advice on brand and partnership working to a wide variety of colleagues.

We have a small brand team with a big remit, covering brand strategy, brand identity and brand protection. Your influence and expertise, like that of your team-mates, will extend across the whole of the organisation, and beyond.

If you’re an expert in the world of trade marks and brand protection who’s ready for a new challenge, you could make a real difference joining our team.

What it's like to work here

Reporting to the Brand Manager, you’ll be part of a supportive brand team, but will also work closely with our legal team and other relevant business areas such as brand licensing, corporate partnerships, fundraising, retail and marketing. 

Working for a charity dedicated to protecting nature, beauty and history, for the benefit of everyone and for ever, brings a tangible sense of contributing to a cause you believe in. You’ll find that your colleagues are appreciative of your specialist knowledge, and are similarly inspired by the Trust’s work and purpose.

Your contractual location will be our head office in Swindon and there will be an expectation for you to attend the office. However, there is flexibility on where you are based at other times. You will be required to work at a National Trust location for 40-60% of your working week. This will be discussed in more detail at interview. 

What you'll be doing

You’ll be responsible for the leadership and professional expertise on all matters relating to our trade marks. You’ll own and manage our trade mark strategy and guidelines, and you’ll lead on brand compliance within and beyond our organisation.

You’ll be the person that colleagues come to for specialist advice and answers. You’ll guide them in how we use our brand and trade marks internally, and when we’re working collaboratively with others. We have ambitious plans to work more proactively and fruitfully with external organisations, individuals and groups, so your partnerships expertise will play a crucial role in us achieving these ambitions. 

When necessary, you’ll be pursuing unauthorised third-party use of our brand or trade marks. You’ll be challenging inappropriate use of our brand wherever the need arises. 

Day-to-day you’ll manage the trade mark portfolio, together with trade mark lawyers, including registering and maintaining trade marks to reflect our evolving commercial needs. And you’ll lead the negotiations of trade marks in international markets.

Who we're looking for

• experienced in UK and EU trade mark law and practice, as well as international laws and practices
• skilled in resolving trade mark disputes, and in leading tricky conversations to achieve brand compliance throughout a large and complex organisation
• used to managing or advising on trade mark portfolios, including handling applications 
• familiar with commercial areas such as licensing, fundraising, marketing or buying
• confident, decisive and persuasive, with clear judgement in guiding, influencing and advising a wide variety of people at all levels in an organisation
• adept at handling multiple priorities and tight deadlines

The package

The National Trust has the motto ‘For everyone, for ever’ at its heart. We’re working hard to create an inclusive culture, where everyone feels they belong. It’s important that our people reflect and represent the diversity of the communities and audiences we serve. We welcome and value difference, so when we say we’re for everyone, we want everyone to be welcome in our teams too.

• Substantial pension scheme of up to 10% basic salary
• Free entry to National Trust places for you, a guest and your children (under 18)
• Rental deposit loan scheme
• Season ticket loan
• EV car lease scheme 
• Perks at work discounts such as gym memberships, shopping discount codes, cinema discounts
• Holiday allowance up to 32 days relating to length of service, plus holiday purchase scheme, subject to meeting minimum criteria.
• Flexible working whenever possible
• Employee assistance programme
• Free parking at most Trust places

**Important notice** 

In line with our redeployment policy, we’ll prioritise applications from employees who are under formal notice of redundancy. 

We’re looking for a Full Stack Developer to join our IT Digital team at the National Trust. You'll be involved in building and maintaining our public-facing website and its supporting applications / APIs. We work in small cross-functional agile teams, with a positive can-do attitude, delivering business value on a regular schedule into production. The team uses a wide array of modern tech and practices, with an emphasis on continuous improvement. 

We take pride in our work and have a passion for the organisation we work for and its cause. 

Salary: Please note the advertised salary is inclusive of a £5,000 reviewable market supplement. Your base salary will be £55,000 and you will receive the market supplement as an allowance. 

What it's like to work here

IT Digital is a busy department and technology plays a key part in enabling the Trust to deliver on its strategic objectives. IT Digital manages and supports the systems that allow  us to communicate with our supporters. Our vision is to enable the best possible customer experience when interacting with the National Trust. 

Your contractual location will be our head office (Heelis) in Swindon, however there will be an opportunity to explore and agree hybrid working arrangements which strike the right balance for you and the Trust.  The team meet in Heelis so there is expectation to attend the office regularly.

What you'll be doing

As the Lead Developer you will architect and implement new features and technologies. Our agile teams are proud of the quality products they produce therefore 'quality is everything' and this is something you must demonstrate. 

You'll care about the user’s experience and ensuring our products are accessible. Collaborating with our UI/UX designer to turn designs into production-ready features. 

You'll be involved in delivering changes across the full software stack: from front-end Typescript React applications, Java/Spring microservices, a range of databases, AWS cloud infrastructure and services. 

Assisting with the maintenance of our CI/CD pipelines built upon Jenkins / GitOps / Kubernetes, you'll also collaborate with our WebOps team to build out new cloud infrastructure or troubleshoot production incidents. 

You'll actively keep up to date with the latest industry trends and will have the ability and interest to learn new skills as part of the role. 

You may also be required to support our intranet.

Who we're looking for

• Worked using an Agile Software Delivery approach and have experience of working within a highly collaborative and cross-functional Agile environment. 
• A background in development and maintenance of web-based product solutions with a focus on quality, performance, reliability, scalability, and resiliency. 
• Brings the following Core Technical Experience to the role:
  • Java 11+ enterprise web development, Spring, REST/GraphQL APIs and Microservices plus experienced with modern web frameworks (e.g., React single page apps, Javascript / Typescript)
  • Previous experience of Angular JS v1.4, JQuery would be advantageous.
  • Experienced with Maven, Git and CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins). Enthused by Unit, Functional and Integration Testing.
  • Experienced with (or tools similar to) the Atlassian Product suite including Jira, Bitbucket and Confluence
• Experienced with containerization (Docker / Kubernetes) and database technologies (e.g., Elasticsearch, Mongo, Postgres).
• Experience building and architecting cloud native applications (e.g., AWS, Kubernetes, Serverless, Event-driven architectures).
• Familiar with BDD and Cucumber and with monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana

The package

The National Trust has the motto ‘For everyone, for ever’ at its heart. We’re working hard to create an inclusive culture, where everyone feels they belong. It’s important that our people reflect and represent the diversity of the communities and audiences we serve. We welcome and value difference, so when we say we’re for everyone, we want everyone to be welcome in our teams too.

• Substantial pension scheme of up to 10% basic salary
• Free entry to National Trust places for you, a guest and your children (under 18)
• Rental deposit loan scheme
• Season ticket loan
• EV car lease scheme 
• Perks at work discounts such as gym memberships, shopping discount codes, cinema discounts
• Holiday allowance up to 32 days relating to length of service, plus holiday purchase scheme, subject to meeting minimum criteria.
• Flexible working whenever possible
• Employee assistance programme
• Free parking at most Trust places