sales director.

The Sales Director will play an essential role as they look to further establish and grow their business in China and across Asia Pacific. The individual's primary responsibility will be to build a sales pipeline through building meaningful client relationships and driving lead generation activities in their nominated market for our Marketing Solutions proposition. The individual will be expected to strategically identify and proactively approach sales prospects and manage opportunities through the sales life-cycle, ultimately closing the sale. They will be skilled in leveraging the wider team to create winning sales propositions & solutions for our clients.

 

skills and experience required.

The role will require a well-respected self-starter with a thorough knowledge of the communications and marketing environment who can close out contracts of significant scale
 

• A good understanding of the different marketing channels and of the production/delivery environment * A proven sales track record, selling to senior C-level stakeholders, ideally within either the Marketing and/or Procurement divisions of our client base.
• A natural hunter with a focus on winning "new from new" business
• Continually exceeds their business targets
• Strong commercial orientation
• A very strong networker who has an established and developing contact list in our focus sectors
• A proven consultative and solution sales approach with the ability to articulate value add propositions and stories for our clients.
• An engaging personality with natural gravitas and business credibility
• Sets and achieves very high levels of performance and continually strives for personal improvement in all that they do * High levels of energy, thrives on being challenged and will take others on the journey of success
• Will take accountability for action and takes deals through to closure
• Has the strategic and business intellect to be able to make a strong contribution to the ongoing development of the business proposition
• Possess a strong work ethic and not be afraid to roll-up their sleeves and be hands on in all elements of the sales cycle * A persuasive presenter who maintains high standards of excellence in presentation
• High standards of personal presentation