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Head of sales

Leicester
Nigel Wright Recruitment
Head of sales
£60,000 - £70,000 a year
Posted: 21 September
Offer description

The Client

This is a unique opportunity to work with highly regarded business leaders, ensuring their vision and business growth comes to fruition. You will work collaboratively and hands-on as the Head of Sales, you will be responsible for creating the roadmap in this business, growing a team, CRM, winning new customers, supporting tenders, and building strong relationships with schools and local businesses from within Corporate Clothing, Workwear, School wear or Textiles.

This is a critical role in driving their growth — create a strategy, combining sales, contracting, and account management with a focus on new customer acquisition, repeat orders, and upselling.

The Role

* Creating and delivering a strategy for success.
* Building a team in the future.
* Travelling across multiple sites in the UK
* Driving new customer acquisition with schools, academies, and local businesses.
* Leading and supporting tendering processes to secure school wear, corporate wear and workwear contracts.
* Managing and growing relationships with existing customers.
* Identifying upselling and cross-selling opportunities to increase revenue.
* Building and maintaining a pipeline of opportunities across both divisions.
* Tracking and reporting on growth performance (contracts, tenders, sales).
* Coordinating with operations and marketing to ensure excellent customer service.
* Acting as the main day-to-day contact for school and business partners.

The Person

You're ambitious, proactive, and commercially minded — ready to own growth responsibilities directly in a fast-paced start-up. You enjoy building relationships, winning new business, and turning contracts into long-term partnerships.

* Ideally you will be from School Wear or Work Wear or Corporate Wear or Textiles B2B.
* Worked with a business that has been a "Growth" journey, where you have played a pivotal part.
* Working with business leaders in creating and executing a "go to market plan" for success.
* Experience in sales, account management, or business development.
* Confidence in engaging schools, academies, and/or local businesses.
* A commercial mindset and the ability to hit sales targets.
* Strong communication and negotiation skills.
* Energy, adaptability, and resilience to succeed in a start-up environment.
* Worked in sales, contracting, or account management, ideally with schools or SMEs.

The Benefits

* Salary: £60,000–£70,000 + Bonus
* 25 days' holiday + bank holidays
* Hybrid working with site presence required
* Excellent benefits
* A hands-on commercial growth role in a bold, scaling brand business.

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