Our client is looking for a UK Sales Manager, located around the Heathrow area. Excellent benefits offered, including
25 days holiday
Life assurance x 4
Pension
Salary £70k plus car allowance
Ideally our client is looking for someone with the following attributes from a Freight Forwarding/Logistics background
- Able to analyse situations and make prompt decisions (when required) using sound reasoned judgement.
- Experienced in management of UK wide Multi-Modal Sales Team
- Able to multi-task.
- Able to project manage.
- Strong leadership ability.
- Strong people management and communication skills.
- Strong business acumen.
- Good knowledge of Freightos & Webcargo systems
Duties Include:
- Reporting on all activities to Vice President
- Driving growth in revenue and profitability by actively developing (target) customer relationships.
- Actively participating and taking ownership on pre-defined key accounts for Europe & UK.
- Set up business goals and action plan, and implement to achieve budget.
- Cooperate with European Sales Department (ESD) and other UK General Managers to achieve budget.
- Increase management's effectiveness by communicating values, strategic goals, and objectives and pro actively manage performance of sales staff.
- Manage the country sales team and sales executives and ensure successful achievement of targets.
- Recruit sales staff as required.
- Implement action plan to achieve annual budget and ensure staff are aware of the requirements to achieve this.
- Maintain quality service by establishing and enforcing standards for sales.
- Monitoring all sales staff activities using Salesforce in conjunction with ESD.
- Cooperate with ESD to expand UK and European Business through each target industry and account.
- Hold general sales meeting at each quarter end with sales staff.
- Set performance based payment (sales incentive) and sales targets.
- Arrange work with days with Hunter Sales to motivate and guide on technique.
- Attend monthly General Manager's meeting
- Any other reasonable task requested by the VP or Managing Director.