Manager Director jobs in United Kingdom

Faire is an online wholesale marketplace built on the belief that the future is local — independent retailers around the globe are doing more revenue than Walmart and Amazon combined, but individually, they are small compared to these massive entities. At Faire, we use tech, data, and machine learning to connect this thriving community of entrepreneurs across the globe. We help retailers discover the best products from around the world to sell in their stores and level the playing field so that small businesses everywhere can compete with big box and e-commerce giants.

By supporting the growth of independent businesses, Faire drives positive economic impact in local communities, globally. We’re looking for smart, resourceful and passionate people to join us as we power the shop local movement. If you believe in community, come join ours.

Faire's quality, depth, and breadth of brands is its strongest value to retailers. Our Brand Partnerships team is at the forefront of Faire’s success, ensuring that the best and most relevant brands join and thrive on our platform. As an Account Executive, you’ll be a trusted advisor to brands, helping them succeed by tailoring growth strategies to their goals, identifying opportunities, and driving incremental revenue growth.

This role blends strategic thinking with hands-on sales execution. You’ll own a portfolio of brands within specific geos (France + UK), proactively identifying and onboarding the best-fit brands for Faire.

We’re looking for a customer-obsessed self-starter who is energized by building relationships and a strong commercial mindset—from the C-level to the operational leader—identifying growth opportunities and optimizing brand success on Faire.

Why you’re excited about this opportunity...

• You have 2-4 years of experience in Sales.
• You love problem-solving and finding ways to match customer goals with business opportunities.
• You are comfortable operating in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment and are excited by testing new goals, ways of working, and customer challenges that come with startup life.
• You want to work in a cross-functional role where you can contribute to marketing, product and customer success focus areas and roadmaps.

Identify the right opportunities for growth

• Manage a book of business (territory) with the goal of optimizing incremental order volume that new brands bring to the Faire platform — including identifying who to target and how to engage them across multiple channels
• Set your own sub-targets that ladder to and influence your overall goal and hold yourself accountable to achieving them
• Independently leverage business and customer data to identify prospects that could be a good fit for Faire based on category insights, seasonality, and patterns of previous success from existing customers
• Support your customers through their first quarter on Faire—helping them understand what Faire offers and guiding them through best practices to receive orders

Independently lead a best-in-class sales cycle from activation to early success

• Lead every customer interaction with an ability to ask a personalized set of questions to understand each customer's unique business and, based on those responses, shape Faire’s value propositions to meet their problems
• Partner directly with customers’ sales and marketing teams to incorporate Faire’s platform into their workflows and collateral — educating them on how best to drive success on Faire
• Develop personalized onboarding plans based on customers’ needs that balance near- and long-term success for Faire and the customer
• Independently decide when to move forward or pass on a potential prospect if the partnership is unlikely to succeed
• Strive to deliver sales results and stay resilient and focused on inputs when performance is challenging

Be an expert of France and the United Kingdom on Faire

• Be solution-oriented to common objections or roadblocks to geo growth. Size the opportunity, resources needed, and act on it with product & leadership teams.
• Understand how competitors & industry players operate and Faire’s key differentiators
• Research trends and noteworthy events happening across the industry, your market and with your key accounts

Represent the Faire brand across the wholesale industry

• Drive Faire’s value props, messaging and strategy across various surface areas—from nurture emails to call outreach to in-person tradeshows, events and customer visits
• Research and identify new business opportunities to pursue to drive incremental revenue for the Faire platform
• Develop content for and host webinars to engage leads in your vertical and/or share best practices for onboarding success
• Collaborate with marketing to develop top-of-funnel messaging for websites, paid advertising, and nurture emails to drive leads

Hybrid Faire employees currently go into the office 2 days per week on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Effective starting in January 2026, employees will be expected to go into the office on a third flex day of their choosing (Monday, Wednesday, or Friday). Additionally, hybrid in-office roles will have the flexibility to work remotely up to 4 weeks per year. Specific Workplace and Information Technology positions may require onsite attendance 5 days per week as indicated in the job posting. Applications for this position will be accepted for a minimum of 30 days from the posting date.

• We are entrepreneurs: Faire is being built for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs. We believe entrepreneurship is a calling and our mission is to empower entrepreneurs to chase their dreams. Every member of our team participates in the founding process.
• We are using technology and data to level the playing field: We are leveraging product innovation and machine learning to connect brands and boutiques from all over the world, building a growing community of more than 350,000 small business owners.
• We build products our customers love: Everything we do helps customers grow their business because our goal is to grow the pie—not steal a piece from it. Running a small business is hard work, but Faire helps it feel easier.
• We are curious and resourceful: We are curious by default, test every assumption, and develop creative solutions. We lead with curiosity and data in decision making, and reason from a first-principles mindset.

Faire was founded in 2017 by a team of early product and engineering leads from Square. We’re backed by top investors in retail and tech including Y Combinator, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Forerunner Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, and DST Global. We have headquarters in San Francisco and Kitchener-Waterloo, and a global presence across offices in Toronto, London, and New York. To learn more, you can read more on our blog.

Faire provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. Faire is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. Accommodations are available throughout the recruitment process and applicants with a disability may request to be accommodated. To request reasonable accommodation, please fill out our Accommodation Request Form.