Global Sales Director - Construction Products Manufacturer

• Excellent Export Sales Director opportunity
• Working for a prestigious, highly innovative SME manufacturing group

About Our Client

An excellent opportunity has arisen for an Export Director for a market leading manufacturer of engineered construction products to continue the companies growth strategy outside of their established UK region, developing their global markets.

The business and wider group have a long standing heritage of excellence in the manufacturer and supply of a variety of products dating back to the middle of the twentieth century. All of their businesses have strong positions and brands in their individual specialist markets.

Job Description

• Create and implement a robust export sales strategy to secure and increase share of their export markets. This will be demonstrable through positive sales turnover growth and increased profit margin.
• Lead the remote sales teams based outside of the UK including the Middle East, Asia and Americas.
• Represent the business externally, building strategic relationships as well as training and developing key local area distributors based across the export region.
• Work within a project based technical sales role with a focus on infrastructure project-based business with their products used across the built environment including airports (airside), ports, warehouses and for new build and refurbishment specifications.
• Define opportunities for business development across international markets adding new specialist distributors where necessary.

The Successful Applicant

• Experienced of working for UK based manufacturing businesses who have experienced incremental growth across their international markets, ideally within the Building Products / Civil Products supply sectors.
• Proven background in developing strong and sustainable customer relationships, as well as value-added solutions.
• Can demonstrate excellent leadership capabilities, with a proven record of recruiting, mentoring and developing successful international teams.
• A background of international travel and working in multi-cultural environments will be essential.
• A willingness to travel extensively will be required for this role.

What's on Offer

Excellent executive salary and benefits package on offer for the successful candidate