Sales Manager

Outstanding opportunity to join one of the UK’s top printing groups in this key management role. The successful candidate can come from print management, commercial print, DM or POS/ large format. It is imperative applicants are confident of generating their own turnover as well as driving sales through the team. The charecterstics we seek are:-

Alert to market opportunities, able to cross-sell
• Can co-create mutually beneficial solutions with clients
• Strong client-service orientation
• P&L focused
Client management
• Makes positive first and subsequent impression
• Assimilates and presents information clearly and effectively
• Tuned into client perspective – up to date with changes in client organisation which can affect the business
• Able to network effectively within the account
• Builds relationships with clients at all levels based on trust and credibility
• Can understand and interpret client requirements (strategic and tactical) and translate into actions
• Uses personal influencing style to gain appropriate outcomes
• Handles conflict appropriately and sensitively
People management
• Natural leader, inspiring and motivating teams through personal style
• Adapts approach to work with diverse teams
• Delegates appropriately and effectively
• Good communicator – can express ideas and expectations clearly and confidently
• Positive decision maker
• Can lead and develop people
• Takes personal accountability

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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.