Chief Sales Officer

About the job

Do you want to take on strategic responsibility and elevate a sales organisation to the next level? As Chief Sales Officer at Neho and Strike Advisory in Zurich, you have exactly this opportunity. You will take over the commercial leadership of our company and shape the future of our sales team.

Neho is one of the market-leading brokerage firms in Switzerland. We stand for innovative real estate services that combine human expertise with powerful digital solutions. This enables a faster, transparent, and top-quality real estate sale. A special feature: We offer our service at a fixed price instead of a commission because we consider this fair and contemporary.

Strike Advisory is our internal financing department and works closely with Neho's sales team. As an independent intermediary, Strike offers property buyers and owners the best mortgage and insurance solutions from over 80 partners.

We are currently looking for a Chief Sales Officer to lead and further develop our commercial organisation across Switzerland at group level. In this role, you are responsible for both Neho's real estate marketing and Strike Advisory's financing consultancy, ensuring that both areas work together as a coherent engine. You will be responsible for 60 - 70 employees in the company's sales organisation and report directly to the CEO.

Your Responsibilities

As Chief Sales Officer, you will lead the commercial affairs of Neho and Strike Advisory throughout Switzerland.

• Overall responsibility for Neho's sales team (approx. 50 employees), including direct leadership of two local sales managers in the German-speaking part of Switzerland and the Romandie

• Managing key KPIs, including revenue, productivity, and new customer acquisition

• Implementing sales initiatives in the regions, further developing existing structures, and expanding Neho's local presence

• Ensuring a high-quality marketing offering and establishing Neho as the leading real estate agent in Switzerland

• Overall responsibility for Strike Advisory's sales team (approx. 15 employees), including direct leadership of two local sales managers in Zurich and Lausanne

• Managing sales metrics: revenue targets, pipeline development, closing rates, conversion, etc.

• Strengthening collaboration with Neho focusing on lead generation and acquisition

• Leading the continuous expansion of Strike Advisory's market position as an independent financing consultancy

• Bringing together the brokerage and advisory teams in the Romandie and German-speaking Switzerland to a common performance level, with noticeable progress in both regions

• Connecting real estate marketing and financing consultancy into a holistic system that mutually reinforces each other

• Coaching and promoting sales managers and their teams with the goal of a collaborative and performance-oriented culture in line with company values

• Maintaining oversight of figures, forecasts, and pipelines, intervening early when warning signs appear

• Further developing sales methodology and playbooks that teams use daily – from qualification to closing

• Close collaboration with the CEO and other internal functions at the Zurich location and the headquarters in Lausanne (e.g., Marketing, Product, Operations)

What We Offer

• An established, fast-growing scale-up with currently nearly 150 employees

• A leadership role with direct reporting to the CEO and significant influence on the commercial direction of the entire company

• A unique opportunity to shape the Swiss real estate market holistically – on both the buyer and seller sides

• The chance to lead a bilingual and multiregional team

• Modern IT equipment and user-friendly digital platforms as well as access to various AI resources (licenses, internal experts, external coaching)

• High personal responsibility in your work with flexibility in work scheduling and the possibility of home office

• Modern offices in the Circle with views of Zurich Airport

• Dynamic structures, flat hierarchies, short decision-making paths, and an inspiring working atmosphere

• 5 weeks of holiday + additional days based on length of service, possibility for remote work abroad, fully paid maternity/paternity leave, regular team events and much more!

Your Profile

• Strong leadership profile with several years of experience leading sales teams across multiple hierarchical levels

• Excellent knowledge of the Swiss real estate market with a deep understanding of the business areas of real estate marketing and real estate financing (mortgages and pension provision)

• Proven skill in building and further developing sales teams as well as managing their performance through regional or specialised managers

• Experience in managing sales figures: from target setting through regular performance analyses and forecasts to early escalation in case of deviations

• Strategic judgement and decisiveness: you maintain an overview even in a complex, multi-level organisation and make well-founded decisions under uncertainty

• Strong coaching mindset: you develop leaders and sales staff purposefully, creating sustainable performance improvements, not just short-term successes

• Experience in combining personal sales with digital lead generation and CRM-supported processes

• A high quality awareness: you focus on sustainable business success, not on closing deals at any cost

• German at native level, good English skills

• Willingness to visit our HQ in Lausanne twice a month

• Experience in cross-linguistic collaboration

• Fluent French skills

• Experience in a fast-growing start-up or scale-up environment

Have we piqued your interest? Then we look forward to your application and to shaping the commercial future of Neho and Strike Advisory together with you.

Please note that we only accept applications via our career page: https://careers.neho.ch/