Sales Manager

Mercury Hampton Ltd; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the flexographic printing industry is looking for a Sales Manager to drive growth and lead business operations. This high-growth role offers opportunities to manage teams and potential equity ownership. Candidates should have experience in sales within the packaging sector, strong leadership skills, and a dynamic, driven personality. The position includes a competitive salary range of £60,000 to £70,000, with on-target earnings exceeding £90,000. Home-based options are available within the UK and Ireland.

Benefits

Home Office

Company Car / Car Allowance

Private Healthcare

Pension

Laptop

Mobile Phone

Credit Card

Bonus

Qualifications

• Experience in the corrugated packaging or flexible packaging sectors.
• Leadership experience or desire to step into management.
• Technical grounding in flexographic print processes.

Responsibilities

• Drive growth and lead the business in the flexographic print industry.
• Develop and implement sales strategies.
• Manage key finance metrics, profit margins, and revenue targets.
• Build and manage customer relationships and develop new business.

Skills

External sales experience in flexographic print sector

Management and leadership skills

Training and coaching experience

Ability to develop relationships

Excellent communication skills

Dynamic, driven, ambitious

Ability to work on own initiative

Upselling and cross-selling opportunities

Education

Mechanical engineering apprenticeship (desirable)

Job description

Overview

• Sales Manager
• Commercial Manager
• PROSPECTS TO MANAGING DIRECTOR
• High Growth Role / Prospects to EQUITY
• Flexographic Printing Industry – Services and consumables
• Corrugated & Flexible Packaging / Narrow web / label industries
• £60,000 to £70,000 Basic salary (experience dependent)
• Home Office, Company Car / car allowance, private healthcare, Pension, Laptop, Mobile Phone, Credit Card and Bonus, on target earnings £90,000+
• UK and Ireland
• Home Based could live in Leeds, Manchester, Huddersfield, Preston, Stoke-on-Trent, Birmingham, Stockport, Warrington, Liverpool, Bolton etc.

Have you sold to Corrugated Packaging Manufacturers, Flexible Packaging Manufacturers and or the Labels market, if you are a dynamic ambitious sales professional who’s sold into these sectors please get in touch now. Have you the desire to lead a team and run a business and become a General Manager / Managing Director / Owner?

Mercury Hampton is working exclusively with this client. Our client is a privately owned entrepreneurial high growth company, part of a successful engineering services group, they are a thought leader and innovator in the flexographic printing industry. They are now looking for a dynamic sales professional to drive growth and lead the business in the flexographic print industry. You will take full responsibility for the growth strategy and all commercial activity of the company. You may already have leadership experience, or you may be an ambitious senior sales professional looking to step up into a management position.

The company are based in the North of the UK, as the role is covering the UK and Ireland our client is open on where you live. You will have experience, contacts and a good technical grounding in flexographic print processes and will have sold into theCorrugated & Flexible Packaging industries including the Narrow web / label industries. The role will involve selling technical / maintenance services and consumables to improve customers print quality and maintain optimum productivity. You will develop the sales strategy, managing key finance metrics, profit margins and revenue targets whilst you map out the market, work with existing customers [grow them] and win new customers with a view to building a team around you. The role will report directly into the MD owner; he will develop you and mentor you with a view to you potentially moving into a director’s position with equity.

The Candidate

• The successful candidate will have external sales experience from the flexographic print sector
• Management / leadership ability / experience
• Training and coaching experience
• Driven, dynamic and ambitious
• You will work with a high degree of honesty and trust; we are looking for the company’s future leader
• Hard working and determined, and able to work on your own initiative
• Print industry and printing knowledge / coating industry
• Experience within the packaging and label sector
• A strong strategic thinker with exceptional ability to develop relationships, manage key accounts and develop new business
• You will have excellent communication skills and able to communicate and sell to a wide variety of levels.
• Dynamic “can do” attitude, and enthusiasm for sales
• A mechanical engineering apprenticeship would also be desirable
• You will have an eye for upselling / cross selling opportunities

Please click on the apply button or contact Mercury Hampton directly. We aim to respond to all successful applicants within two working days.