2,872 Sales Director jobs in the United Kingdom

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About Us

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The Role

Smurfit Westrock is seeking a dynamic and strategic Sales Director to lead the commercial success of our Beacon business. This is a high-impact leadership role for a seasoned professional with deep expertise in corrugated packaging and a passion for driving growth in a competitive market.

As a key member of the Senior Management Team , you’ll shape and execute sales strategies, build lasting customer relationships, and collaborate across departments to deliver exceptional value and service.

Key Responsibilities

• The ability to set long-term sales goals and develop strategies to meet them. This includes understanding customer segments and anticipating market conditions.
li>Managing and directing the sales activities of the business and external team members
• Grow & maintain excellent customer relationships ensuring that a healthy and accurate sales pipeline is consistently in place.
• Understand and deliver sales that fulfil the overall business needs in terms of capabilities, profit and sustainability.
• The ability to drive new business growth at the site through all sales team members whilst maintaining full ownership of the CRM system.
• Review, develop and implement a new and updated sales strategy, aligning with our machine capabilities and future investment plans.
• Identify and develop investment plans with a clear vision for future growth and positioning in key market sectors.
• Work & manage the external sales team to build robust

Established over thirty years ago my client is a successful, family-run, Commercial Cleaning company based in London with a healthy growth and a circa £13m turnover. They provide a broad variety of soft FM/cleaning services across the UK with a network of local offices. They hold on to the principles and ethics on which they were founded and they are still very much at the heart of what they do today. They have a deeply held commitment to deliver excellent client satisfaction to a client base that encompasses companies in many sectors.

I am currently working in partnership with them to recruit an industry experienced (contract cleaning) sales professional to become their London Sales Director. The company has telesales support, access to the relevant portals for tenders and receives a good number of quality enquiries from their website. The successful candidate would also be expected to engage in proactive activities to pinpoint sales opportunities. This role will have been muti-faceted, as well as having a personal target to meet the role holder will also manage a BDM with the plan to appoint a second BDM. The Sales Director must be experienced in tenders and larger bids as well as seeking out regular BDM opportunities. They are looking to continue their double digit organic growth across all sectors in London, with a focus on increasing the average size of the contracts won.

The client wants to consider all potential suitable candidates, so targets and the basic salary will be negotiable.

Candidate requirements

• You must have extensive experience of selling commercial cleaning contracts
li>Possess a proven track record of winning new business.
• Experienced in writing tenders and undertaking larger bids.
• Have the drive and capability to undertake the full sales process from lead generation, through site survey, financial metrics, proposal creation, to contract signature.
• Reside within a couple of hours travel of the Haringey area, so in reality London and the Home Counties areas.
• Possess a professional appearance with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Be a holder of a clean driving licence.
• Have a stable career history.
• Be a strong established player in the cleaning sales market with a verifiable track record of high value wins.
• Posses an ability to build and grow a successful sales and bid team, whilst self-achieving a good sized target of higher value opportunities to meet the individual target.
• Have a good network of contacts to be able to be invited to participate in tenders, also contacts within managing agents, procurement and sales consultants and other key relationships.

Basic salary circa £0k- 0k, commission (based on the annual net sale value), vehicle (electric) or pool car, laptop, mobile, NEST pension and 28 days holiday

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Sales Director
Leeds
Circa £75,000 - £5,000 basic | OTE 10,000 - 20,000 + Car/Car Allowance, Commission & Benefits
Monday to Friday | 37.5 hours per week

We are seeking a Sales Director who can deliver, drive, and cultivate a high performing inhouse sales team. Is this you?

Our client is actively recruiting for a newly created role of Sales Director, reporting directly to board level, you will be responsible for developing and executing the sales strategy, delivering the revenue growth, managing the sales team, igniting the team by providing ongoing training, guidance, and support, whilst still leading from the front. 

This is a pivotal position with full responsibility for the roll out and delivery of the strategy and revenue growth across the whole sales team, empowering your team to assist throughout this journey. Subject to performance, this role may lead to appointment to the full board and eligibility for share options.

Duties:

Strategic Planning

Develop and implement strategic sales plans to achieve company goals and objectives

Ensuring the systems, processes and the customer flowchart journey is in place

Team Management

Manage a team of internal sales representatives, providing guidance, ongoing training and support, to ensure they have the tools to hit the set targets

Sales Performance Management

Monitor sales metrics and individual/team performances and analyse data to identify areas of improvement

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless execution of sales strategies

Prepare sales forecasts, pipelines and manage budgets, tracking performance against targets
Client Relationship Building

Build and maintain strong relationships with key clients and partners
Maintain Market Knowledge
Stay updated on industry trends, competitor activities, and market conditions

Experience required:

Proven experience as a Sales Director or within a similar role

Experience within the Fenestration Products Industry or similar experience within trades

Strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate and inspire a team

The ability to bring new ideas and change

Lead from the front
Excellent communication and negotiation skills
Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain client relationships

Demonstrate ability to increase revenue growth
Solid background of rolling out sales strategies
Proficient in using CRM software and other sales tools
Time management skills with the ability to prioritise tasks effectively

Additional Benefits:

• Company pension
li>Excellent salary
• Commission scheme
• Company car or car allowance
• Scope to progress
• On-site parking
• Sick pay

Mpeople, are a recruitment business acting on behalf of our clients, if you do not receive a response within 5 days, please presume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.  For further details please forward your CV for consideration.

Sales Director - Manufacturing

Location: Preston, UK
Salary: 90,000 basic + up to 50% bonus
Benefits: Company car or allowance, pension, private medical insurance

Are you a commercially driven, hands-on Sales Director from a manufacturing background? We're looking for a strategic leader who can drive growth, inspire teams, and make a real impact within a global manufacturing business based in Preston.

About Us

We are an established global manufacturer with a reputation for quality, innovation, and excellence. Supplying into a diverse range of sectors, we continue to invest in our people, products, and processes to remain at the forefront of our industry.

The Opportunity

As Sales Director, you'll lead our UK sales operation from the front - taking ownership of the strategy while staying actively involved in key

• selling multiple platform media solutions across print, digital and events
• undertaking thorough research and building industry knowledge
• carrying out competitor analysis
• attending client meetings
• putting together media proposals for clients
• identifyingcontra agreements

Sales Director
Leeds
Circa £75,000 - £5,000 basic | OTE 10,000 - 20,000 + Car/Car Allowance, Commission & Benefits
Monday to Friday | 37.5 hours per week

We are seeking a Sales Director who can deliver, drive, and cultivate a high performing inhouse sales team. Is this you?

Our client is actively recruiting for a newly created role of Sales Director, reporting directly to board level, you will be responsible for developing and executing the sales strategy, delivering the revenue growth, managing the sales team, igniting the team by providing ongoing training, guidance, and support, whilst still leading from the front. 

This is a pivotal position with full responsibility for the roll out and delivery of the strategy and revenue growth across the whole sales team, empowering your team to assist throughout this journey. Subject to performance, this role may lead to appointment to the full board and eligibility for share options.

Duties:

Strategic Planning

Develop and implement strategic sales plans to achieve company goals and objectives

Ensuring the systems, processes and the customer flowchart journey is in place

Team Management

Manage a team of internal sales representatives, providing guidance, ongoing training and support, to ensure they have the tools to hit the set targets

Sales Performance Management

Monitor sales metrics and individual/team performances and analyse data to identify areas of improvement

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless execution of sales strategies

Prepare sales forecasts, pipelines and manage budgets, tracking performance against targets
Client Relationship Building

Build and maintain strong relationships with key clients and partners
Maintain Market Knowledge
Stay updated on industry trends, competitor activities, and market conditions

Experience required:

Proven experience as a Sales Director or within a similar role

Experience within the Fenestration Products Industry or similar experience within trades

Strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate and inspire a team

The ability to bring new ideas and change

Lead from the front
Excellent communication and negotiation skills
Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain client relationships

Demonstrate ability to increase revenue growth
Solid background of rolling out sales strategies
Proficient in using CRM software and other sales tools
Time management skills with the ability to prioritise tasks effectively

Additional Benefits:

• Company pension
li>Excellent salary
• Commission scheme
• Company car or car allowance
• Scope to progress
• On-site parking
• Sick pay

Mpeople, are a recruitment business acting on behalf of our clients, if you do not receive a response within 5 days, please presume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.  For further details please forward your CV for consideration.

• selling multiple platform media solutions across print, digital and events
• undertaking thorough research and building industry knowledge
• carrying out competitor analysis
• attending client meetings
• putting together media proposals for clients
• identifyingcontra agreements

Sales Director - Manufacturing

Location: Preston, UK
Salary: 90,000 basic + up to 50% bonus
Benefits: Company car or allowance, pension, private medical insurance

Are you a commercially driven, hands-on Sales Director from a manufacturing background? We're looking for a strategic leader who can drive growth, inspire teams, and make a real impact within a global manufacturing business based in Preston.

About Us

We are an established global manufacturer with a reputation for quality, innovation, and excellence. Supplying into a diverse range of sectors, we continue to invest in our people, products, and processes to remain at the forefront of our industry.

The Opportunity

As Sales Director, you'll lead our UK sales operation from the front - taking ownership of the strategy while staying actively involved in key

Sales Director
Commutable from Birmingham, Stafford, Stoke-on-Trent and Crewe
75,000 - 90,000 + Company Car + Company Shares + Annual Bonus

Are you a confident Senior Sales Manager looking to join a large scale, stable company operating for over 30 years?

Do you want the opportunity to use your knowledge to assist in company strategy and assist the MD in steering the company vision?

This company is focused on improving the efficiency of properties by providing the best energy efficient measures and therefore pushing towards reducing the UK's carbon footprint. This company takes pride in offering the best services from domestic projects to exciting commercial contracts. They have seen amazing expansion over the past years and are planning to continue this going forward.

Your role within the company will involve driving commercial strategy focussing on Housing, Retrofit, Heating and Renewable Sectors. You will engage with both current and prospective clients to drive long-term business growth. As part of the role, you will oversee a team of bid writers and marketers as well as growing the sales team in line with strategy.

The ideal candidate for this role will have a background in a Senior sales role. They will have a strategic plan on how to grow sales as well as experience doing this for Housing, Retrofit, Heating and/or Renewable Sectors.

The Role

* Focussed on Housing, Retrofit, Heating and Renewable Sectors

* Working with C-suite on growth strategies

* Leading Sales, Bid Writing and Marketing teams

The Person

* Background in Senior Sales role

* Experience in Housing, Retrofit, Heating or Renewables

* Experienced building successful strategies

To apply for this role or to be considered for further roles, please click "Apply Now" or contact Daniel Thomas at Rise Technical Recruitment.
Rise Technical Recruitment Ltd acts an employment agency for permanent roles and an employment business for temporary roles.
The salary advertised is the bracket available for this position. The actual salary paid will be dependent on your level of experience, qualifications and skill set. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.