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.