Automotive Sales Manager jobs in United Kingdom

This role sits at the intersection of strategy systems and cross‑functional leadership and is instrumental in scaling a multi‑functional go‑to‑market engine across regions. Reporting directly to the CEO, this leader will provide a single source of truth for global Sales Renewals and Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) data, owning commercial analytics, board‑level reporting, and the infrastructure that drives decision‑making across the entire revenue lifecycle.

• Strategic Planning: Partner with leadership to develop and execute GTM strategies ensuring alignment to the company’s goals.
• Process Optimization: Identify inefficiencies and implement improvements to optimize workflows and drive results across GTM operations; own Sales / Renewal Forecasting methodologies and customer retention processes such as risk management and health scoring.
• Data Quality: Ensure accuracy and hygiene of CRM data, particularly customer master, contract master, sales and renewal opportunities.
• Data‑Driven Insights: Analyze key metrics to assess performance, identify trends, and provide insights into the quality of Sales & Renewal forecasts and key performance KPIs such as renewal rate, churn, price increases, GRR & NRR.
• GTM Planning: Design quota, headcount, territory, account assignment, and annual bookings plan definition.
• GTM Systems: Drive system requirements definition and oversee implementation and rollout; lead GTM system design with an emphasis on automation and AI‑driven insights.
• Team Enablement: Enable the GTM organization to understand key processes and hand‑over points, ensuring smooth end‑to‑end operations.
• Cross‑functional Leadership: Connect Sales Renewals, Customer Success, Product, Finance, and Program Management to ensure clear understanding of roles and responsibilities in delivery of the GTM strategic initiatives.

• 10 years of operational experience in Sales Ops and Business Ops under a CFO or COO.
• Proven record of data‑driven leadership and transformational change.
• Expertise in designing, implementing and optimizing processes and their implementation in CRM systems.
• Excellent ability to translate high‑level business objectives to actionable execution plans for delivery of system improvements, key reports and dashboards.
• Clear understanding of how to motivate the organization and build incentive plans that directly correlate with desired business outcomes.
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities with a history of building trust across internal stakeholders.
• Private equity background and global SaaS experience are highly desirable.

Director

• Employee Relations
• Employee Evaluation
• Management Experience
• Profit & Loss
• Conflict Management
• Operations Management
• Project Management
• Budgeting
• Leadership Experience
• Supervising Experience
• Leadership Management
• Financial Planning

Full‑Time

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