At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead sales strategy, build relationships, and drive revenue growth in a dynamic environment.
- Company: Join Uncaged Innovations, a pioneer in sustainable leather alternatives.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, career development opportunities, and a chance to make an impact.
- Other info: Hands-on leadership role with significant growth potential.
- Why this job: Be at the forefront of innovation in sustainable materials and shape the future of fashion.
- Qualifications: 7+ years in B2B sales with expertise in textiles or related industries.
The predicted salary is between 100000 - 150000 £ per year.
About Uncaged Innovations
Uncaged Innovations is developing the next generation of high-performance, plastic-free leather alternatives.
Our proprietary biomaterial platform is designed to deliver the aesthetics, performance, and scalability demanded by the world's leading fashion, footwear, accessories, furniture, and automotive brands.
We are entering a critical phase of growth as customer demand increases and our product portfolio expands.
We are seeking an exceptional commercial leader to build and scale our revenue organization, drive strategic partnerships, and establish the systems required to support rapid growth.
Position Overview
The Vice President of Sales will lead all commercial activities across the organization and report directly to the CEO.
This individual will be responsible for building and managing the sales organization, developing a scalable commercial strategy, driving enterprise customer acquisition, and creating the operational rigor necessary to achieve aggressive revenue targets.
The ideal candidate combines deep industry expertise in leather, synthetic materials, textiles, performance materials, footwear, fashion, or related industries with a proven ability to scale revenue in complex B2B environments.
This is a hands-on leadership role requiring both strategic thinking and active participation in customer development, deal execution, forecasting, and team management.
Key Responsibilities
- Own company-wide revenue growth strategy and execution, establishing clear sales processes, KPIs, forecasting systems, and accountability structures.
- Develop relationships with executive decision makers across target accounts.
- Manage complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles from initial engagement to a closed deal to repeat orders.
- Negotiate commercial agreements and strategic partnerships.
- Directly manage and mentor sales team, creating career development paths and performance management frameworks.
- Drive weekly and monthly operating cadences focused on pipeline health, conversion rates, customer engagement, and revenue attainment.
- Work closely with product development, R&D, and leadership teams to align customer needs with product road map decisions.
- Create a culture of execution, urgency, and disciplined follow-through.
Qualifications
- Significant experience selling leather, synthetic leather, coated fabrics or textiles.
- 7+ years of B2B enterprise sales experience.
- Proven success selling hard tech into complex enterprise sales cycles involving product qualification, development, and commercialization.
- Experience selling into both SMBs and enterprise clients in fashion, luxury or footwear.
- Demonstrated success leading and scaling commercial teams.
- Fluent in English.
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Uncaged Innovations is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment where innovation meets sustainability. As a leader in developing high-performance, plastic-free leather alternatives, we foster a culture of collaboration and growth, providing our employees with ample opportunities for professional development and career advancement. Located in a vibrant area, our team enjoys the unique advantage of working at the forefront of eco-friendly technology while contributing to meaningful change in the fashion and automotive industries.
