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SALES DIRECTOR (MD DESIGNATE)

Employer
SmithCarey Recruitment
Location
London (Greater)
Salary
To £125k OTE and equity potential
Closing date
30 Sep 2019

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Business Sector
Non Food & Drink
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Function
Sales

Job Details

The Company

A fantastic and rare opportunity to join a new health and beauty distributor and to be involved at the very outset of an exciting new venture, working with global premium brands in a lucrative and emerging category in the UK. This entrepreneurial company has received significant financial backing from the Middle East and has ambitious growth plans across the UK’s leading retailers. This London-based role could be truly transformational for your career! 

The Role

Our client is looking to appoint an outstanding and energetic Sales Director (MD Designate) to spearhead their future sales strategy, develop ranges of consumer products through working with leading North American brands and UK start-ups and to shape the future team.

This is a senior leadership role where you’ll take total ownership of new business development, sales, brand owners management and detailed P&L management. You’ll be working closely with all internal colleagues and key customer stakeholders to formulate long-term profitable trading strategies and highly effective customer relationships.

Key areas of focus are beauty, sport, vaping oils and edible oils. You’ll also manage all UK marketing and branded support with a focus on driving rate-of-sale and building consumer brand awareness. This is a challenging role that requires strong commercial, marketing and financial acumen.

About You

To make a success of this fantastic Sales Director (MD designate) leadership role, you’ll have strongly grown your career in a recognised FMCG company / non-food distributor, where you’ve developed a sound understanding of the route to market dynamics and key customer contacts. You’ll also have a proven track record of developing successful relationships with large retail chains and negotiating distributor agreements on behalf of existing global brands.

You’ve been successful to date leading sales teams to deliver the highest customer service standards, as well as attaining profitable sales growth and budgetary achievement. At the same time, you’re a hustler, willing to roll up your sleeves and get things done!

Above all, you’re a charismatic and passionate individual with the gravitas to ‘hold the floor’, together with the drive, energy, and strategic mind-set to achieve both our client’s commercial objectives as well as your own career goals, which in this role could broaden into a future European Director role.

If you’re ready to take your next career step and believe you can make a success of this exciting senior leadership opportunity, please apply below or email mariam@smithcarey.co.uk quoting reference MM/2093, including full details of your current benefits package.

Alternatively, please call Maria Murphy for an initial confidential discussion on 07745 184922.

Closing date for applications: 30th September 2019

Company

As specialists in Sales & Marketing Recruitment and Training, SmithCarey Ltd have extensive knowledge and experience of the FMCG market and all trade channels from the recruitment and corporate perspective, which together with face-to-face contact ensures that we understand both our clients and candidates needs. We are fully committed to building long-term client and candidate relationships based on trust and results, which ensures candidates can effectively manage their ‘career road map’ and get the right job, not just any job, as well as ensuring our clients select the best talent.

We are passionate and committed to helping ambitious, commercial talent achieve their potential in some of food and drink’s most progressive and respected companies.

Our services at SmithCarey embrace retained recruitment consultancy, interim management and training, with our FMCG clients ranging from major bluechips to medium and small companies across food, drink and non-food, branded and own label.

Spanning both the corporate and the recruitment viewpoint, our Consultants have an outstanding track record of knowledge and experience in the FMCG market – specifically Sales & Marketing, including; National Account Management, Category Management, Customer Marketing, Shopper Marketing, Field Sales, International Sales Management and Brand Marketing.

We take our relationship with you, the candidate - and you, the client - very seriously. What you can expect from us is honest advice and real assistance at an individual level. We understand your concerns, we can get on your wavelength, and we can produce the results you want – be it a major career move to steer you in the right direction with your future ‘career road map’ or simply some welcome guidance and support.

The SmithCarey team are passionate in their belief that companies who want to attract top talent need to invest and take a more proactive approach, even before vacancies arise, by creating an employer branding talent attraction strategy. We have invested heavily in both resource and new technology to embrace the LinkedIn/Facebook generation, through social networking tools and other media.

Everything we do is done with passion, professionalism and integrity. We operate with strict confidentiality and never send out CVs without prior consent, recommend candidates without thorough screening or market false positions to attract response.

Our message to people who have the drive and energy to be a success is to come and talk to us. We can help by advising you what’s out there, provide support with your ‘career roadmap’ for how you might progress, together with advice on how to make it happen and, who knows, we might have the perfect position for you right now!

Take a look at our current opportunities; then email with a covering letter, stating your current remuneration package and a copy of your CV to one of our Consultants.

For Recruitment:

Mark Smith - mark@smithcarey.co.uk - mobile 07747 847214

Maria Murphy – mariam@smithcarey.co.uk – mobile 07745 184922

For Training:

Paul Carey - paul@smithcarey.co.uk – mobile 07786 745165

Or for any other general enquiries call 01488 649360 or email: directors@smithcarey.co.uk or visit our website www.smithcarey.co.uk

We look forward to helping you manage your future ‘career road map’ and assisting you in building a successful Sales or Marketing career in the exciting world of FMCG.

Company info
Website
Telephone
01488 649 360
Location
SmithCarey Limited
PO Box 735
Huntingdon
Cambridgeshire
PE29 9PH
United Kingdom

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