Sales Director Manchester HQ – 2 days per week Around £150,000 +significant bonus, share options and benefits You’re a heavyweight, high achieving sales leader. Right now your career is simply not enough to fuel your ambition nor personal reward. You are ready to lead and positively disrupt a competitive industry and make a serious name for yourself. Your talent and skill as a profound expert in developing and winning major corporate partnerships is without question. You are someone with considerable experience of leading teams. You have a relentless drive to win large scale sales pitches knowing exactly how to structure business development processes and measures. Your track record is second to none. Our UK, privately owned, client is an established global name in industrial (Masterbatch) plastics, with state of art manufacturing facilities and revenue heading towards £44m. As part of a wider group, they are now transforming their commercial world with a faster-paced, value generative enterprise. Reporting to the Managing Director, with a seat on the board, your critical responsibility will be to revolutionise the sales modus operandum, including international business development. Winning new customers with the highest levels of expertise and deepening existing partnerships, is the priority. You will love the idea of pioneering unchartered territories globally, where business readily exists yet untapped. With a nationwide team under your direction, you’ll bring rigour and discipline, a passion for the drivers that make the numbers jump off the P&L as well as structure and high standards of performance. Above all, your desire is to make a significant impact on the organisation’s commercial objective for high value growth, whilst building sustainable long-term partnerships with big name multi-sector corporate customers. You’ll love making decisions independently, often with high octane commercial wit and creativity. Ambiguity will be naturally comfortable for you. Your personal style needs to be ‘wow’, engaging and inspiring at all levels. To qualify, you’ll need to demonstrate an undisputed track record in big business wins, most preferably within the industrial and B2B or B2B2C sectors, including Distributor management. Strong intellectual curiosity is very much desired. You’ll be a visionary for the long term future success of the business. This is not a job or a place for the faint-hearted – only the lionhearted and fearless need apply!