Sales Team Leader

We're now recruiting for a B2B Sales Team Leader for a well-established marketing company based in Hemel Hempstead, specifically in the Maylands Estate area.

The company are specialists in providing innovative marketing services and put a lot of work into developing long-term relationships, working with companies that have no marketing resources/function or those that require extra support.

This is going to be an amazing position for the right person, you'd be taking over a small and tight-knit 'best-in-class' Sales Team, a good mix of people that have many years of experience and excel in their positions, as well as a couple of newer members of the team that will need more support and development.

Something else that stands out about this opportunity is the fact the company operate on a 4.5 working day basis. As standard, you'd be working Monday to Friday, full time office hours, but finishing at 12.30pm on a Friday; additionally offering hybrid working, with the need to be in Tues-Thurs and the option to wfh on Monday's and Friday's.

The salary based on a 4.5 day working week will be 32,000 for those days/hours, plus any additional monthly and annual bonusses.

This role is going to be great for someone that wants to work in a very relaxed environment, with a team/company that value long term relationships and put a lot into caring for and harnessing those.

In this role you wouldn't be focussed on "selling", you'll be motivating and supporting a team that will be focussed on that, you will be supporting the Sales Director in carefully managing their business-to-business accounts, motivating the team and very importantly; reporting/processing for the team.

What does the day-to-day look like?

• The main responsibilities of this Team Leader will be to manage the team, increase capacity, account management and new business management.
• You will be carefully maintaining and developing existing customer relationships for the longer term.
• Meeting with new and existing clients to be briefed and re-briefed on marketing campaigns.
• Daily and weekly progress reporting for clients to update on campaigns.
• Coaching, mentoring, inspiring and motivating the Sales Team.
• Ensuring that the team are meeting sales targets.
• Working closely with the directors to ensure sales training and development plans are in place to best support each team member individually.
• Regularly reporting on KPIs, reports and processes.

What do we need from you?

• Previous experience working as a Team Leader within Sales, Account Management or Telesales is going to be essential for this position.
• You will need to be a peoples person and focussed on building long term and strong relationships within your team but also your customers/accounts.
• The ability to look individually at your team and manage and support each of them with separate plans and ideas will be a must.
• A huge part of this role is the reporting and process side, so previous experience of reporting on campaigns, KPIs and similar will be required.
• Ideally, as this role is 3 days a week in Hemel Hempstead, you will need to be fairly local and ideally drive as the opportunity to meet clients comes up often.

What next?

Apply for the role, get in touch with Bobby and we are looking to hold interviews asap with the ability to start people as early as December or January.

Looking for the next step in your career? Think Specialist Recruitment.

Think Specialist Recruitment is an independent support staff recruitment agency based in Hemel Hempstead and working across the Herts, Beds and Bucks area. We specialise in permanent and temporary recruitment with areas of expertise including; administration, customer service/call centre, PA/secretarial, human resources, accountancy and finance, sales admin/sales support, marketing and IT Helpdesk/IT support.