Sales & Marketing Director

This is a senior new business development role which involves marketing the company’s services and developing these opportunities into new sales for the business. As part of the role you will also be managing a sales team, setting sales targets and ensuring these are delivered. You will report to the Managing Director.
Skills required
You must be self-motivated, able to motivate your team and must have excellent communication and negotiation skills. A thorough understanding of the digital large format graphics market is essential in order to inspire clients with new ideas and endless possibilities.
This is a Board level position and as such you must be able to prepare and present detailed reports and have a good understanding of the wider business operations.
Duties:
• Market the company’s services through targeted campaigns in order to grow the client base.
• Identify new business opportunities and present the companies services.
• Obtain a detailed understanding of the client’s requirements and prepare specific project proposals, suggesting suitable materials and including detailed estimates.
• Brief the account management teams who then manage the project through production.
• Build long-term client relationships.
• Promote the company’s services at trade fairs and work with our internal creative team on the stand design.
• Prepare monthly reports based on sales figures prepared by the accounts department and reports from the sales team and present these at the monthly Board meeting.
• Agree sales targets with the sales team and hold regular 1:1 meetings to motivate and monitor performance.
• Identify industry trends and carry out competitor research.
• Work with the production director to prepare business case proposals for new investments in technology to open up new markets.
• Work with external support to update our Blog, Facebook and Twitter

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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.