Sales & Marketing Director - B2B Service Sector

The Opportunity:

Nigel Wright Group is delighted to have been retained to lead the search for a Sales and Marketing Director for one of our key repeat clients.  The organisation is a high growth North East headquartered group, operating in the UK volume B2B service sector.  It operates with a multi-product offering and has further diversification into new markets planned.  This is a strategic level role which will report into the C-suite board.

Role Profile:

• Owning, implementing and executing the group sales and marketing strategy to drive scale up revenue growth across multiple B2B service / product groups.
• Overarching responsibility for multiple high volume sales teams and the group marketing function, with a number of Heads of Department as direct reports.
• Involvement in the strategic planning for moving into new markets.  Implementing and executing these plans and growing new divisional sales teams upon new market entry.
• Accountability for for the lead generation strategy and marketing machine and working closely on this with the Head of Marketing.
• Regular engagement with the c-suite and involvement with investor communications and reporting.

Person Specification:

• A track record of driving rapid growth in a volume B2B service sector sales environment.
• A strategic commercial leader comfortable engaging with and reporting to c-suite and investors.
• Experience of overseeing both sales and marketing functions would be preferred.
• Exposure to multiple product verticals and offerings.
• Leadership experience of both established and newly formed sales teams.
• Commutable to the North East HQ four days per week.