UK Sales Manager

Our client is looking for a UK Sales Manager, located around the Heathrow area. Excellent benefits offered, including 25 days holiday Life assurance x 4 Pension Salary £ 70k plus car allowance Ideally our client is looking for someone with the following attributes from a Freight Forwarding/Logistics background * Able to analyse situations and make prompt decisions (when required) using sound reasoned judgement. * Experienced in management of UK wide Multi-Modal Sales Team * Able to multi-task. * Able to project manage. * Strong leadership ability. * Strong people management and communication skills. * Strong business acumen. * Good knowledge of Freightos & Webcargo systems Duties Include: * Reporting on all activities to Vice President * Driving growth in revenue and profitability by actively developing (target) customer relationships. * Actively participating and taking ownership on pre-defined key accounts for Europe & UK. * Set up business goals and action plan, and implement to achieve budget. * Cooperate with European Sales Department (ESD) and other UK General Managers to achieve budget. * Increase management’s effectiveness by communicating values, strategic goals, and objectives and pro actively manage performance of sales staff. * Manage the country sales team and sales executives and ensure successful achievement of targets. * Recruit sales staff as required. * Implement action plan to achieve annual budget and ensure staff are aware of the requirements to achieve this. * Maintain quality service by establishing and enforcing standards for sales. * Monitoring all sales staff activities using Salesforce in conjunction with ESD. * Cooperate with ESD to expand UK and European Business through each target industry and account. * Hold general sales meeting at each quarter end with sales staff. * Set performance based payment (sales incentive) and sales targets. * Arrange work with days with Hunter Sales to motivate and guide on technique. * Attend monthly General Manager’s meeting * Any other reasonable task requested by the VP or Managing Director