Commercial Director in Lincoln, Lincolnshire

An exciting new opening with an established and successful global enterprise based in Lincoln is looking to appoint a Commercial Director to help drive new business opportunities in the UK and globally. The ideal candidate will come from an industrial engineering background with a successful career within sales development and commercial strategy and growth.

Some of the key responsibilities will be to:

• Shape the overall product strategy and optimise the portfolio, ensuring effective planning and prioritisation across initiatives.
• Lead the creation of practical, insight-driven product roadmaps by gathering and aligning inputs from cross-functional partners with broader business goals.
• Guide market positioning efforts, including assessing and refining pricing approaches in response to competitive and market dynamics.
• Manage pricing strategy across the full product lifecycle.
• Maintain responsibility for the product line’s balanced scorecard and drive continuous improvement through well-defined action plans.
• Resolve operational challenges related to quality, production, and delivery performance.
• Proactively identify potential issues, communicate risks, propose corrective measures, act independently when needed, and report results.
• Own go-to-market planning and product roadmap execution for designated markets and offerings.
• Conduct market sizing and segmentation activities; contribute to the development and upkeep of market models, data sources, and tracking systems to monitor market evolution.
• Capture customer insights through needs assessments and voice-of-customer activities.
• Support revenue growth by strengthening and advancing the sales pipeline.
• Lead strategic market planning—both near-term and long-range—to maximise growth opportunities.
• Develop materials and analyses that inform strategic decisions related to organic and inorganic growth.
• Contribute to building and sustaining a structured competitive intelligence process.
• Identify and prioritise emerging legislative, competitive, and technological shifts, providing insight into associated opportunities and risks.
• Foster cross-functional collaboration with teams including R&D, Engineering, Finance, Supply Chain, and Operations to drive growth and execution.

The successful candidate:

• Background within industrial engineering, polymers, coatings or similar.
• More than 10 years of progressive sales leadership experience, including 5+ years successfully leading and developing high-performing teams.
• Demonstrated excellence in financial modelling, pricing strategy, and long-range strategic planning.
• Proven business development leadership, ideally within the composites or polymers industries, with a record of driving sustainable growth.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, Power BI, and CSR platforms to enable data-driven decision-making.
• Exceptional change leadership and stakeholder management capabilities, with the ability to influence at all levels of the organisation.
• Significant global business experience and a strong track record of leading effectively across diverse cultures and markets.

For more details and information for this fantastic opportunity please email your CV to the email provided. Candidates are required to have full right to work status for the UK. Only candidates within reasonable commuting distance from Lincoln can be considered. This is an onsite role.

Please be advised CVs will be treated in the strictest of confidence and that your application will not be forwarded without your permission. We aim to respond promptly to your application however, due to the high level of CVs we receive we are only able to respond to applicants whose profile matches our Clients requirements.