Sales Manager - Sales Director Designate - Northern Home Counties - £Highly Competitive Package
Posted 12 days 11 hours ago by Harrison Scott Associates
This position has now been filled, but has been left on our website as we have other similar vacancies on an ongoing basis. More importantly, we have vacancies that are not advertised due to their confidential nature. It is therefore in your interest to email your CV, as a Word document, depending on your sector, to:
- Head of Packaging recruitment - Greg Nelson -
- Head of Print recruitment - Neil Pearson -
- Head of Paper recruitment - Gary Young -
- Board level, account management, and all levels of sales vacancies - George Thompson -
Our divisional heads will then email your CV internally to the consultant who specialises in your exact sector. For example, a category of packaging is cartons, a category of print is print management. In fact, we have over 30 specialist categories. Our specialist consultant will contact you if we have a live vacancy that matches, or in the near future as soon as a good match to your skill set and experience becomes available.
Our client is a successful and progressive print company who have made recent substantial investments and wish to appoint a Sales Manager/ Sales Director Designate to help them realise ambitious growth plans. This is the ideal role for someone who feels they have a lot more to offer a company other than turnover. You will have considerable input into the development of the company's website and new corporate brochure. You will manage a small team of sales execs and play a major role in the overall strategy of the business. Like many of these vacancies we are looking for the 'finished article' however the client will consider candidates who have a number of the skills/ experience required but has great potential.
Candidates will have- At least 5 years print sales experience
- Knowledge of print both digital and litho
- Successful track record of (key) account management and new customer lead generation
- Ability to design and execute both short term and longer term sales development strategies
- Ability to assess, review and develop Sales Team.
- Results orientated, competitive sales approach
- Natural leader who both inspires and motivates the team
- Excellent people development skills - coaching, mentoring
- Set the standards and lead by example
- Can-do, positive approach/attitude
- Excellent two-way communication skills to all levels of the business both internally and externally
- Good presentation skills
- Infectious enthusiasm and energy. Sense of urgency
- Commercially aware and financially astute
- Sense of perspective and sense of humour
- Commercial Print Senior Sales Manager
- Commercial Print Sales Director
- Commercial Print Business Development Director
- Commercial Print Head of Sales
We ask that you only consider vacancies if you are resident in the UK and have recent work experience in the print, packaging or paper sectors. We prefer MS Word format (.doc or .docx) for CVs, as our software can read Word documents more effectively than PDFs.