Additional Information:
Job Title: Head of Sales
Location: North County Dublin
Summary:
- This key strategic role is to lead from the front and deliver the company’s ambitious sales growth targets across its full portfolio of services.
- The objective is to both serve existing clients, through excellent customer service on current business and by developing new revenue streams, while also attracting significant additional business from new clients.
- Managing and leading the sales function, you will ensure that it is positioned to maximize sales opportunities to ensure the business achieves its’ ambitious growth plans.
- As well as your own new business targets, you will also manage a team of Business Developers and indirectly manage a four-person Customer Services Team.
- As a natural ambassador, you will enjoy working with clients to develop existing and new business and have a proven track record of doing so.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- To recruit, develop, manage and motivate a growing team of sales professionals, who will deliver a high standard of execution across all identified customers in relevant channels.
- Devising sales team KPI’s, driving and coordinating the pace of execution.
- Development and Implementation of Sales Strategy across the sales teams, whilst working closely with the operations and finance functions.
- Establish and monitor performance-reporting systems around customer retention and customer banding and client visits.
- To regularly report achievements versus budget & forecasts to the Senior Management Team.
- Engaging and proposing new sales development propositions.
- Motivating the sales team to achieve the best results possible.
- Propose and manage continuous training and assessment programmes for the total sales team.
- Setting activity and revenue targets for members of the sales team.
- Own all plans and strategies for developing business and achieving the company’s sales goals.
- Establish the inbound-lead requirements needed to meet your sales objectives & provide full visibility into the sales pipeline at every stage of development.
- Establish and foster partnerships and relationships with key customers both externally and internally.
- Identifying key areas for improvement in the sales process.
- Attending industry events and conferences to generate new business leads through networking.
- Maintain and grow relationships with international partners.
The Candidate:
- With previous experience of having responsibility of running a sales unit or region, preferably within a logistics or service-focused business, you will have proven success in achieving revenue and margin growth, with a keen focus on customer retention.
- Possess extensive knowledge of sales principles and practices, and an ability to coach others on them.
- Excellent communication skills combined with the intellectual capacity to sell the concept in a trustworthy, personable and professional manner.
- Resilience: demonstrating confidence in your own ability along with a positive approach.
- Leadership: willing to take the lead and make difficult decisions around people and new business, while bringing a team along with you.
- Good negotiation skills and ability to understand and implement acceptable levels of margin and financial risk.
- Thriving under pressure you will be capable of managing multiple priorities and working to critical deadlines and new business objectives.
- Hands-on management style and proven experience of managing and motivating a sales team.
- Strong analytical skills, critical thinking skills and problem-solving skills.
- Skills/Competencies
- Minimum 10 years of sales experience, with a minimum of 5+ years leading a Business development team.
- • Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Strong analytical and numeracy skills.
- Strong presentation and communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Demonstrated experience in relationship management and strong commercial awareness.
- Positive, ‘can do’ attitude & ability to work as part of a team.
- • Proficient IT & Presentation skills.
- Demonstrated ability to work positively in an ever-changing environment.
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Contact
Mary O’Rourke
Senior Recruitment Consultant
- mary@firstaff.ie
- +353 1 679 7766
- +353 86 263 2535
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Firstaff Personnel Consultants
85/86 Grafton Street
Dublin 2
Ireland