Sales Lead

Sopra Steria; England; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in professional services is seeking a Sales Lead to join their SDS team in England. This mid-senior level role offers the opportunity to manage the entire sales cycle, build client relationships, and implement sector-specific strategies. Candidates should have a proven history in technical sales and excellent communication skills. Flexibility in work arrangements is supported, fostering a positive work/life balance.

Benefits

Car allowance

Private medical

Life assurance

Pension

Flexible benefits

25 days annual leave

Qualifications

• Proven track record selling complex or technical solutions.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate with technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead follow-up conversations on warm leads.
• Own and progress the full sales cycle.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Sales strategy

Organizational skills

Job description

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Are you ready to take the next step in your sales career with the freedom to shape your future success?

We’re looking for ambitious Sales Leads to join our SDS team. You’ll be stepping into a key role that helps us unlock opportunities in the private sector, turning client interest into high-impact partnerships. You'll work alongside an experienced and supportive team, who open doors for you to walk through and convert into tangible results.

Our sales culture is energetic, collaborative, and driven by curiosity. You’ll thrive here if you’re a self-starter who loves being part of a lean, high-performing team where your contributions directly influence outcomes.

We can offer great career progression opportunities, ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities.

What you'll be doing:

• Leading follow-up conversations on warm private sector leads opened by our senior team.
• Owning and progressing the full sales cycle, from qualification to close.
• Building and maintaining strong client relationships across varied industries.
• Working closely with our practices (e.g. Data & AI, Cloud, ServiceNow, Salesforce) to craft compelling propositions.
• Implementing sector-specific sales strategies to grow pipeline and revenue.
• Bringing a technically minded approach to understanding client needs and solution matching.
  
  

What you’ll bring:

• A proven track record to sell complex or technical solutions
• High energy, hunger to win, and a drive to make things happen.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills—able to hold credible client conversations.
• A self-starting mindset with strong organisational and time management skills.
• The ability to collaborate optimally with technical teams to shape solutions.
• A curious, confident personality who thrives in fast-paced environments.
  
  

It would be great if you had:

• Experience developing your own pipeline as well as working warm leads.
  
  

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent

Location: UK Wide

Internal Recruiter: Michael

Salary: £50,000 - £65,000

Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

With a long history of delivering transformation, we've developed a market-leading partnership ecosystem to provide business services of the future and shape valuable, positive outcomes for communities. We empower our clients by providing innovative solutions and commercial models that help them meet their business needs, drive operational efficiencies, and deliver impactful value creation. We remain committed to values of excellence, empathy and respect to produce transformative outcomes in business processing – creating value for all.

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Sales and Business Development

• Industries

  Professional Services

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