European Account Director / Head of Sales

A once in a life time opportunity for a European Account Director / Head of Sales and develop this rapidly expanding organisation with unrivalled growth and an expanding global brand.

SALARY: £102,000 – £120,000 ADDITIONAL BENEFITS: Car, Bonus, Relocation Allowance

LOCATION: London

JOB SPECIFICATION:

* A newly created role and part of a senior management team, you will support the growth of the organisation by working closely with a significant number of leading global brands.
* We are changing the way the digital generation shop and discover brands all over the world.
* Through our passion for innovation, retail and technology we’ve created a leading global service trusted by over 200 major brands, such as ASOS, Spotify, Apple and H&M, to connect them with the hard to reach audiences. Operating in key markets around the world, including the UK, US and Australia, we’re growing rapidly, and boast an increasing user base of over 4.5 million consumers.

THE ROLE IN A NUTSHELL:

* In the role of European Account Director you will be striving to achieve national and global accounts sales goals through effective leadership, coaching and mentoring of a rapidly growing Accounts Management Team who are dealing with some of the largest global brands in the world – all of which you will have heard of – alongside some other key, rapidly growing boutique brands.
* You and the team will be meeting key senior decision makers in the Marketing functions of these brands and able to bring about a strength of relationship second to none where both the brand and the business see significant growth through strategic development, enhancing process, hard work and sheer determination to succeed or exceed key sales targets for both these brands and the business.
* You will work also closely with the product team to develop new products and services that emerge from both client requirements and your own ideas and vision therefore the opportunity to apply your experience of developing partnerships beyond our own core offering, maximising relationships across the service offering of large global businesses – be that new ideas to integrate our business with partners or large scale co-marketing initiatives, is one that definitely exists.

WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU – European Account Director / Head of Sales

* You will have demonstrable experience of hiring, growing and developing people through periods of high business growth. Initially you will be responsible for a team of 8 but this has potential to grow to supporting a team of 50 people working across 12 European countries very quickly!
* Because of this you will be able to discuss and provide clear examples of proven leadership capability with potential to grow into a Global Account Director role in the future and will have gained this through working within organisations dealing with large scale deals with large organisations.
* Your experience in the digital arena is exceptionally valuable however if you have exposure of working in print or broader media instead – we can work with this.
* You will also have solid experience of selling enterprise solutions to Marketing functions.
* You`ll be able to demonstrate a solid breadth of experience within managing multiple key and strategic clients along with the management of account management teams at a similar level
* You`ll possess highly developed leadership and people management skills (any experience of multi lingual teams would be desirable).
* You will be able to articulate clearly your ability to package, negotiate and sell cross channel and complex media campaigns.
* You will be someone that thrives in a high pressure environment and relishes the challenge of hitting ambitious performance targets.

THE PERKS – European Account Director / Head of Sales

On offer is a competitive base salary, 31 days annual leave (including flexible bank holidays) company bonus scheme, 4.30pm Friday finishes during summer and the opportunity to work in a fun, fast and evolving organisation! We also have baking Thursdays!

INTERESTED? Please apply to our consultant Philip Monkman quoting European Account Director / Head of Sales, reference PM1602-66A to DD: Wallace Hind Selection. The Old Vicarage. Duston. Northants. NN5 6JB. Please note that the postcodes used for this vacancy are for searching purposes only, they may not refer exactly to where the role is based.