National Head of Sales

JR United Kingdom; Preston; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the hospitality sector is looking for a National Head of Sales in Preston. This pivotal role involves developing and leading a sales team, ensuring the delivery of the sales strategy and establishing essential client relationships. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in hospitality sales, proven leadership skills, and a track record of success in securing national accounts. The position offers up to £50,000 annually, plus a performance-related bonus and company benefits.

Benefits

Company car

Laptop

Mobile phone

Performance related bonus

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing a sales team.
• Track record in winning national contract accounts.
• Experience in the hospitality sector.

Responsibilities

• Deliver personal sales targets.
• Build partnerships with clients.
• Collaborate with marketing for brand growth.
• Develop and coach sales team.

Skills

Organisational skills

Networking

Sales strategy

Team development

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Commercial acumen

Multitasking

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preston, lancashire, United Kingdom

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Posted:

10.06.2025

Expiry Date:

25.07.2025

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Job Description:

Role: National Head of Sales

Reports To: Managing Director

Base: Field based with HQ visits and client meetings

Benefits: Up to £50,000 p.a. plus a performance related bonus (TBC), company car, laptop and mobile phone

The National Head of Sales is a pivotal role within Venners Business Development Team.

You will work closely with your team to develop, coach and inspire them to high performance. You will have overall responsibility for the delivery of the Sales Strategy. Building long lasting and professional working relationships with internal and external customers will be a key element of the role.

Ideally you will have a background in servicing the hospitality sector and be able to demonstrate your ability to network. A proven track record of winning national based accounts is essential.

Main Duties and Areas of Responsibility:

• Deliver on your personal sales targets
• Build strong and long-lasting partnerships with all clients establishing opportunities for additional service line sales.
• Collaborate with marketing to ensure the growth of brand awareness
• Focus on strategic year on year growth in line with budgeted expectations
• Ensure that your team are competent and knowledgeable on all sales strategies and approaches.
• Develop and coach your team to high performance
• Effective communication with all internal stakeholders.
• Support and develop Company Sales initiatives and execute to a high standard at all times
• Financial management of budget and delivery of activity in line with business, group and client requirements.
• Complete all administrative and reporting tasks to ensure time requirements are met

To be successful in this role you will ideally have:

• Proven experience and a successful track record of managing a sales team
• A demonstrable ability to deliver strong performance over all key performance indicators
• Proven experience in winning national contract accounts
• Strong organisational and planning skills
• Experience in servicing the Hospitality sector
• Commercial acumen to spot opportunities.
• Manage efficiency through tight control of spend and resource allocation, utilise available funds appropriately to deliver overall activity
• Experience of developing team to build strong internal succession plans
• Ability to coach and improve personal and business performance
• Ability to document ideas and actions to drive performance from business plans
• Energetic and passionate about sales
• Reliable
• Ability to communicate and motivate a team
• Exceptional interpersonal skills
• Understanding of the Hospitality landscape
• Flexible & resilient
• Strong networker
• Flexible to travel (must have clean driver’s license)
• Able to multitask and prioritise to meet tight deadlines
• Ability to identify and develop opportunities