Head of Regional Field Sales (Yorkshire)

Company: Hays
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Location: York
Job Description:

Overview

In this senior role you will lead a field-based sales team to drive regional performance and growth within the Utilities sector. You will shape strategy, coach and develop a 15–20 FTE field team, and partner with the UK Head of Sales to ensure measurable results. You’ll balance hands-on field activity with scalable processes, forecasting, and reporting to keep stakeholders informed. This is a high-impact leadership role with autonomy to leave your mark while building a high-performance culture.

Pay / Benefits

  • 75,000 OTE (commission paid monthly)
  • Company car / allowance
  • Flexible work arrangement (50% home / 50% field)
  • Full autonomy on schedule
  • Weekly/fortnightly meetings at HQ
  • Mon–Fri, 8:30–17:00

Responsibilities

  • Own and deliver regional sales performance against budget, activity, and conversion KPIs
  • Scale the team through recruitment, onboarding and training
  • Monitor individual agent performance and identify gaps and learning opportunities using data
  • Provide coaching and field support to boost team performance
  • Create a fun, high-performance culture with accountability for results
  • Set territory strategy and plan resource deployment
  • Implement performance improvement plans when needed
  • Maintain accurate reporting and forecasting and communicate up the line

Key requirements

  • Proven experience leading a field-based sales team
  • Experience driving sales performance to exceed territory/regional targets
  • Experience recruiting onboarding and training field-based Sales Executives
  • Inspirational leadership style able to develop others
  • Ability to forecast and commentate on performance to senior stakeholders
  • Full, clean UK driving licence
  • Industry experience (not essential)
  • Inspirational leadership
  • Coaching and people development
  • Data-driven decision making
  • Sales forecasting
  • Performance analytics/metrics tracking
  • Reporting and forecasting tools

Posted: September 14th, 2026