Global Sales and Marketing Director

We are currently recruiting an experienced `Global Sales and Marketing Director`, from within the Energy market. The successful applicant will need to be an expert of diesel generators and power supplies; experience of global sales environment essential.

The key remit for the `Global Sales and Marketing Director` will be the responsibility for creating and delivering the global sales and marketing strategy. In addition you will be expected to play a fundamental role in developing future growth, with new products, industries and enhancing the position of the company as the global market leader.

Main functions include
• Developing strategy, sales & marketing planning, market and profit targets.
• Increasing market share in existing markets and maximise new business development opportunities.
• Responsibility for profit and loss.
• Identifying and reporting on business opportunities in target areas.
• Identifying new markets and new sales channels
• Direct marketing and PR support activities.
• Provide proactive leadership and direction for the global sales, marketing and customer support teams, ensuring they achieve and exceed their objectives and targets
• Management of international agents and distributors.
• Create and manage sales & marketing budgets.
• Prepare sales and revenue forecasts.
• Monitor competitor’s products, services and prices.
• Attend exhibitions and trade fairs to promote company products and services.
• Lead negotiations with customers and external agents, cultivating long-term customer relationships.
• Complete management of the product portfolio, including both new product introduction and obsolescence.
• Monthly and yearly management reporting.

Essential experience/skill and knowledge
• Degree qualified in a technical discipline.
• Expert market knowledge of the diesel generator industry.
• A proven record of successful sales & marketing management and business development.
• Must be a credible and confident communicator with the ability to lead, inspire and influence.
• Excellent sales and negotiating skills
• Initiative, drive and enthusiasm, with a desire to succeed.
• Genuinely ambitious to achieve career and personal development in a role that provides you with the scope to influence the direction and performance of the business.
• Proven ability to deliver continuous and sustainable growth.
• Strong planning and strategic skills.
• Excellent IT skills.
• Experience of conducting business overseas with an eagerness to travel.
• Have a high level of financial awareness.

Benefits
• Highly attractive 6 figure salaries
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Company, mobile and laptop
• Excellent bonus structure, last year 17.5% of annual salary to all workers this year on target to 19%
• Company contribution pension
• Private health care and death in service
• Fully Financed Relocation, if applicable.

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