Sales Director

Job Title: Sales Director

Location: Newbury

Salary: £85,000, Lucrative Bonus Scheme, Car Allowance & Excellent Benefits

The company

Ambitious state of the art innovative business that out classes its competitors in the Gardening & DIY, they believe progress and sustainability are not incompatible to each other. A cash rich global company with a turnover of $700million+, they’ve seen in excess of 10% growth year on year for the last 4 years – that’s something to shout about and in order to continue this growth they are looking for someone to join their team in this growing UK market.

The role – Sales Director UK & Ireland

• Specifically to work within the Gardening & DIY sector, with the likes of B&Q, Wickes, Homebase and more
• Reporting directly to the UK Managing Director, you will monitoring the performance of the senior sales teams by setting and reviewing goals and identifying any training needs
• Devising and implementing systems to keep staff motivated and maintain a high level of morale
• Maintaining sales records and design reports to ensure that the data collected is being utilised effectively
• Recruiting and training sales staff and ensuring that the department is appropriately resourced to deal with fluctuations in sales volumes
• And more

You

• Maturity and experience to manage a team of national account level staff, involving the handling of senior account relationships – experienced buyers/category managers
• Intelligent thinker, strategic planner, focused and priority driven
• Excellent personal negotiation/selling skills
• Strong motivation to achieve, performance driven
• Well organised and structured approach
• Excellent presentation, negotiation and selling skills – promotes and sells persuasively
• PC Literate in Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Good presentation skills,
• Effective communicator both internal and external

If you wish to apply for this role please click on the apply button with a copy of your up to date cv in word format quoting ref number 4493/13

Not right for you? We’d still like to speak with you about other sales, marketing or category management opportunities, so please do send an up to date copy of your CV in word format and we will call you.

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