Sales Director Designate

Our client is dedicated to investing in the very latest technology to continue to be people’s go-to print provider. They offer a full range of services from graphic design to a full print capability from digital and litho machinery.
They currently have an opening for a pivotal role within the company – for someone who can bring expertise and knowledge to the table, to develop and lead the delivery of their sales strategy, delivering agreed sales and revenue targets. This individual must be able to provide evidence of success in developing and implementing large-scale sales/business development strategies within the print industry; along with success in building and maintaining a broad network of internal and external stakeholder relationships leading to commercial opportunity.

The selected applicant will be responsible for:
• Developing, producing and then leading the new business strategy and tools required to carry out the strategy.
• Developing knowledge of and offer the business industry intelligence to support which targets to approach
• Support, and when required, lead client presentations ensuring the team is succinct and professional
• Ensure a record is made of all new business activity
• Devise and implement appropriate marketing activities in conjunction with the Marketing department
• Build relationships with internal divisions to support sales activities and execute collaborative approaches where appropriate
• Evaluate competitor activity, market information and client feedback

We are looking for someone who is target driven and who can deliver advanced communication and influencing skills. You must be self-motivated with the ability to work independently as well as work within a team of directors. Organisation skills are of the upmost priority, along with an ability to cope with multiple large-scale responsibilities.
For the high achiever, success within this position will lead to promotion to Managing Director, so if you are a career driven individual then this is the role for you.

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This position has now been filled, but has been left on our website as we have other similar vacancies to this on an ongoing basis that might interest you. More importantly, we have vacancies that are not advertised due to their confidential nature therefore it would certainly be in your interest to email your CV, as a word document, depending on which sector you are in, to :-

Head of Packaging recruitment – Greg Nelson – greg@harrison-scott.co.uk

Head of Print recruitment–Neil Pearson – neil@harrison-scott.co.uk

Head Paper recruitment – Gary Young – gary@harrison-scott.co.uk

Board level, account management and all levels of sales vacancies –

George Thompson – george@harrison-scott.co.uk

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 contact you in the near future as soon a good match to skill set and experience becomes available.