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...