Sales Director

Company: Hays
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

Senior-level sales leadership role driving UK revenue growth for a global technology and business solutions organisation. You will define and execute the national sales strategy, lead a distributed field-based team, and partner with executives to align commercial goals with international growth initiatives. This role combines strategic planning with hands-on leadership to scale performance in a fast-paced, customer-centric environment. The opportunity offers influence over commercial strategy, cross-functional impact, and exposure to senior stakeholders.

Pay / Benefits

  • competitive salary
  • bonus and benefits package
  • hybrid working environment

Responsibilities

  • Develop and deliver the national sales strategy to drive revenue growth
  • Own sales performance, forecasting, budgeting and territory planning
  • Build and coach a high-performing field sales team
  • Foster a culture of accountability and commercial excellence
  • Establish scalable sales processes, metrics, and reporting
  • Monitor KPIs and identify growth opportunities
  • Collaborate with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to align objectives
  • Build relationships with executive stakeholders across diverse customers
  • Provide market and customer insight to support decision-making, product development and retention initiatives

Key requirements

  • Significant experience leading B2B sales teams within corporate payments, fintech, financial services, SaaS or related sectors
  • Strong corporate payments experience, including commercial cards and FX solutions
  • Experience in spend management, payments technology or SaaS propositions
  • Proven track record of substantial revenue growth and target achievement
  • New logo acquisition and growth of strategic customer accounts
  • Experience building and scaling high-performing sales organisations
  • Experience leading managers and geographically distributed teams
  • Strong stakeholder management and executive-facing communication skills
  • Excellent commercial acumen and experience managing complex, consultative sales cycles
  • Data-driven forecasting, pipeline management and performance optimization
  • Outstanding leadership, coaching and team development capabilities
  • Ability to thrive in dynamic, high-growth environments
  • Willingness to travel nationally
  • Degree-level education or equivalent professional experience
  • leadership
  • coaching
  • stakeholder management
  • data-driven forecasting
  • pipeline management
  • performance optimization

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Posted: October 12th, 2026