Sales & Marketing Director

A substantial print & communications company is on the search for an exceptional candidate to take control of every aspect of the organisations sales and marketing activities.
This director level new business development focused role involves overseeing the marketing of the company’s services and ensuring these activities develop into new sales for the business. As part of the role you will also be managing a sales team, setting sales targets and ensuring efficient and effective delivery.
Key roles and responsibilities pertaining to this pivotal role will include:
• Marketing the company’s services through targeted campaigns to grow the client base.
• Identifying new business opportunities and present the companies services.
• Obtaining a detailed understanding of the client’s requirements and prepare specific project proposals, suggesting suitable materials and including detailed estimates.
• Briefing the account management teams who then manage the project through production.
• Building long-term client relationships.
• Promoting the company’s services at trade fairs
• Preparing 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.
• Agreeing sales targets with the sales team and hold regular 1:1 meetings to motivate and monitor performance.
• Identifying industry trends and carrying out competitor research.
• Working with the production director to prepare business case proposals for new investments in technology to open new markets.
• Working with external support to update our clients social media activity (Blog, Facebook and Twitter)

This role requires a self-motivated senior management professional who has the capacity to successfully drive the output of any team. We are looking for a solution driven individual with a vastly creative mind who can think outside the box. You must have a thorough understanding of the print and communications industry to inspire clients with new ideas and endless possibilities.
This is a Board level position, so candidates must have a natural aptitude for preparing and presenting detailed reports and have a good understanding of the wider business operations. On top of this, to be eligible for this role, you must have experience in a multimillion turnover solution driven business.

£110k to £140k pa basic (depending on experience) + Substantial Bonus + Exec Car & Exec benefits

*** please only apply if you are currently employed in the printing sector ***

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.