UK Sales Director

About the job

This is an outstanding opportunity to spearhead UK sales functions within one of the leading consumable manufacturers in the world.

We are looking for a truly stand out candidate for this UK Sales Director role – a forward thinking individual who can develop and implement a comprehensive business strategy to create value added opportunities and mutually beneficial partnerships. You will achieve significant success by thinking ahead of competitors and continuously looking for new sales opportunities your team can achieve.

Leading the sales and account management team to achieve objectives, this role will require someone with well-developed leadership skills, capable to lead your team positively, even in a challenging operational environment.

Roles And Responsibilities

• Become recognised within the consumables market as a key leader in driving all levels of strategy, vision, and execution to deliver on the commercial mission.
• Engage with customers at the C-level.
• Build, lead, and mentor the UK sales team.
• Drive a customer-focus and results oriented high performance culture across the whole team
• Bring operational rigor and discipline in forecasting, sales process, driving continuous commercial improvement.
• Provide feedback and insights to shape and enhance sales team activities 
• Be a creative problem solver; recognise growth opportunities in the market and orchestrate all cross functional teams by creating, articulating, and executing against the strategic plan.

This individual must be able to provide evidence of success in developing and implementing large-scale solution sales strategies within either consumables, equipment, print, paper or packaging sectors. You will also have an abundance of experience successfully building and maintaining a broad network of internal and external stakeholder relationships leading to commercial opportunity.