At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead sales strategy, develop key customer relationships, and enhance the sales team.
- Company: Established hire business with a strong heritage and growth potential.
- Benefits: Autonomy, direct access to leadership, and opportunity for impactful contributions.
- Other info: Opportunity to professionalise a sales function and drive commercial success.
- Why this job: Shape the future of sales in a dynamic environment with significant growth opportunities.
- Qualifications: Proven sales leader with strong personal sales capability and customer network.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
A hands-on commercial leadership role with a group-backed, independent hire business entering its next phase of growth.
Our client is a well-established hire business with a strong heritage, a loyal customer base and significant scope to grow. The business is now looking to appoint a Sales Director who can bring greater commercial discipline, sales leadership and momentum to the organisation.
The successful candidate will be expected to lead from the front: winning business personally, developing key customer relationships, improving the sales team and building a more structured, accountable and scalable sales function.
- Develop and execute a practical sales strategy focused on profitable growth.
- Personally lead key account, new business and senior customer activity.
- Build stronger sales process, pipeline discipline, CRM usage and reporting.
- Coach, challenge and develop a small but growing sales team.
- Improve customer targeting, account segmentation and sales productivity.
- Work closely with the MD to shape the next stage of commercial growth.
A proven sales leader from hire or rental or a closely related B2B sector.
- Strong personal sales capability and a credible customer network.
- Structured, data-aware and process-minded, without being overly corporate.
- A visible senior leadership role where the right person can make a genuine commercial impact.
- A business with established heritage, group backing and appetite to invest for growth.
- The chance to professionalise a sales function rather than simply inherit a finished machine.
- A broad equipment proposition, service-led differentiation and clear headroom for expansion.
- Autonomy, direct access to the MD and the opportunity to help shape the future sales platform.
Sales Support/Director to Director employer: mrplanthire
Join a dynamic and well-established hire business in the South East, where you will have the opportunity to lead a growing sales team and make a tangible impact on the company's commercial success. With a strong heritage and group backing, this role offers autonomy, direct access to senior leadership, and the chance to shape a professional sales function that drives profitable growth. Embrace a supportive work culture that values personal development and encourages innovative strategies to enhance customer relationships and sales productivity.
