Sales Director

Our client is a leading supplier of soft furnishings and catering supplies into the aviation industry.
This long established family run textiles business is looking for someone in a sales leadership capacity who has experience leading, developing and growing a sales.
We are looking for a hands on individual who can work in both small enterprising business but also within the larger more corporate environment.
Your end users are the airlines - it is essential that you have experience working in the global aviation industry (airlines) and can demonstrate success within the field.

This exciting position offers a global reach and huge development opportunities.
It is essential that you enjoy travelling as part of your role and can balance this with leading a small but growing team.

Some of the desired duties and responsibilities are as follow (but by no means limited):
Responsibilities: Develop and implement sales strategies Prepare operational and financial sales department reports Oversee the management, learning, and career development of the sales team Directly coordinate cross-selling and joint marketing initiatives to maximize exposure and profitability Work very closely with the leadership and design teams on NPD and futureproofing the business.
Exceptional account management and relationship building skills Ability to create corporate presentations, tender applications, pricing and competent with public speaking (events/shows etc) Qualifications Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience 10+ years' of sales leadership experience 10+ years' of experience in sales Must have experince selling into the Airlines Textiles / Design experience desireable but not essential