Commercial Director - Building Products

Page Executive; South Yorkshire; On-site; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

A leading manufacturing company in South Yorkshire is seeking an experienced Commercial Director to drive sales growth and lead the sales teams. The role requires a strong sales leader with a proven track record in bottom- and top-line growth. The ideal candidate will have a strategic mindset and an inclusive leadership style suitable for a rapidly expanding SME environment. Excellent salary and benefits are offered.

Benefits

Excellent executive salary

Benefits package

Qualifications

• Broad experience as a Sales Leader with a strong sales/commercial background.
• Demonstrated long-term experience of growth for SME manufacturers.
• Flexibility of thinking and an informal leadership style.

Responsibilities

• Create a vision to drive top and bottom line sales growth.
• Lead and mentor sales and technical services teams.
• Deliver a robust sales strategy for growth and market share.

Skills

Sales leadership

Commercial acumen

Customer relationship management

Strategic sales planning

Job description

• Excellent Sales Director opportunity
• Working for a prestigious, highly innovative SME manufacturing business

About Our Client

My client is a leading and profitable manufacturer of building products supplying into a range of customers throughout the building and construction sector including fabricators and installers for the home improvement and new build markets.

Due to continued growth an exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced sales focussed Commercial Director to take responsibility for the business with current sales of circa £50M.

Job Description

• Inherit a stable and growing business with the objective to create a vision to drive top and bottom line sales growth.
  
• Directly lead and mentor the internal and external sales and technical services teams.
  
• Deliver a robust sales strategy ensuring sales growth and market share through existing and new customers.
• Drive sales across new high specification products and new routes to market.
• Work closely and collaborate with customers, partners and suppliers within the business together with the group board to maximise sales and become intimate with the inner workings of the business.
  

The Successful Applicant

• Broad experience as a Sales Leader with a strong sales / commercial background who can demonstrate long-term experience of bottom- and top-line growth for SME manufacturers ahead of market growth rates,
  
• Commercially astute, understands the competitive landscape and understands and manages risk - commercial, operational, financial.
• Sales process experience in a high-quality environment selling products on added value opposed to commodity low margin high volume.
• Flexibility of thinking with an informal and inclusive leadership style that would suit a rapidly expanding SME environment.
• An open and likeable personality with a natural ability to be at ease with a range of differing types of customers.
• At ease at all levels and with all stakeholders in the business and wider group.
• Based within a realistic commute when required to the South Yorkshire, Head Office location.
  

What's on Offer

Excellent executive salary and benefits package on offer for successful candidate