Head of UK Sales
This Head of UK Sales position is an exciting opportunity for a results driven senior sales manager to take on a strategic and managerial role with a market-leading publisher of professional education resources. The role is home based with regular travel within the territory and would suit someone based in the South of England.
Key duties:
- Line manage, support and motivate the UK sales team
- Responsible for monitoring the team’s performance to ensure targets are achieved
- Manage weekly and monthly revenue budgets and forecasting
- With the Group Commercial Director and the sales team, prepare annual budgets
- Responsible for sales to professional training providers and book retailers in assigned territory
- Manage relationships with key book wholesalers
- Drive growth of existing business and work to identify new business and product opportunities
Experience / skills required:
- Extensive publishing sales experience in the UK, ideally in academic or professional publishing
- Experience of managing and developing a field-based UK sales team
- Self-motivated with a sales and target oriented approach
- First-class communication and problem solving skills
- Ability to monitor and report on activities and performance and produce quotations and proposals
- Willing to travel regularly within the territory and a full clean driving licence
For further information, please apply online or email a CV and salary expectations to helenspeedy@atwoodtate.co.uk
Contact: Helen Speedy
Tel: 020 7487 8379
Closing date: Midday on 31st October
Atwood Tate embraces diversity and seeks to promote the benefits of diversity in all of our business activities and to develop a business culture that reflects that belief. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief.