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Sales / Growth Director - Chemical Risk

Sales / Growth Director - Chemical Risk

RicardoLondon, England, UK
16 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Overview

Role Title : Growth and Sales Director (Chemical Risk)

Location : London / Harwell / Shoreham / Manchester / Bristol / Glasgow / Hybrid

Job ID : 2024-2589

Ricardo is looking for a passionate and experienced New Business Sales Director who will run our New Business Sales team and lead on the strategic growth of our Chemical Risk business area.

Ricardo has a strong pedigree within the chemical sector. A c. 11M business area with over 50 years legacy through operati on of the National Chemical Emergency Centre (NCEC) we have a suite of emergency response chemical safety and compliance solutions.

The core objective of this role is to provide strategic growth support to the technical areas within the team and to lead our existing new business sales team. Growth is the primary focus and ensuring the business achieves its annual orders intake targets through securing a high value profitable and deliverable book of work.

This role will form part of Ricardos Chemical Risk Leadership team reporting to our Head of Chemical

Key accountabilities

  • Strategic Growth work with the Regulatory and Response capability leads to develop and execute sales strategies to drive revenue growth and achieve sales targets.
  • Sales Leadership f ull management and leadership of our new business sales team including a stretching order intake target for the function. Leading the team and inspiring high performance by providing strong mentorship coaching and guidance.
  • Leadership supporting the Head of Chemical Risk and functional leadership with sales leadership working collaboratively with other business leaders in the practice to support ing synergetic growth of the business to meet set targets .
  • Marketing c o-ordinating with the marketing function and technical area to design and implement high impact marketing campaigns.
  • Stakeholder Management work ing with a variety of stakeholders across sales finance marketing development operations and customer success to make sure plans and projects are communicated and supported accordingly.

Key competencies and experience

The successfulcandidate should be able to demonstrate the below criteria :

  • An exceptional people-leader who can inspire and implement change.
  • Leadership experience of sales and strategic growth.
  • Track record of over-performance and a growth trajectory within an established business / sales function.
  • Ability to make independent course-corrective interventions to improve overall team performance.
  • Demonstrable experience of quickly entering a business and understanding the sales strategy and go - to - market strategy and making significant impact in the growth trajectory.
  • A professional organised and disciplined individual who has a proven track record of effectively and efficiently managing an existing team.
  • An awareness of how to make effective decisions in a complex delivery environment balancing the business development objectives with the clients requirements.
  • Experience in using sales performance data to develop and implements strategies for improvement.

    • Desirable experience

  • Experience of working within a consultative sales environment for example within a consultancy software or similar environment.
  • Experience in working within a sustainability risk management chemical response regulatory or safety business area.

    • Skills and behaviours

  • You are a team player that thrives in helping others succeed.
  • An organised commercially aware target focused professional who appreciates excellent customer service and client relationships are critical to the achieving this.
  • A team player able to work with a wide range of stakeholders both inside and outside of the organisation.
  • Committed to continuous improvement of the business the service delivery and the clients risk management.
  • Enthusiastic about sharing knowledge and expertise with the team to encourage improvement in the function of the team as a whole .
  • Comfortable working in a dynamic operational environment occasionally involving elements of quick decision-making.
  • Willing to embrace Ricardos values and aim to lead others towards high standards of behaviour and performance.

    • Working here

    You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

    We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

    Work life balance

    We offer flexible approaches to work whether that is working from home being in the office or as a hybrid worker. Were happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

    Benefits

    We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health.

    Our core benefits include 25 days annual leave plus 8 flexible bank holidays a competitive company pension scheme life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.

    Diversity Equality and Inclusion statement

    We are an Equal Opportunity Employer we believe in each persons potential and well help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity equality and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture we are a recognised as a disability confident employer.

    Next steps

    Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

    Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.

    LI-EP#hybrid

    Required Experience :

    Director

    Key Skills

    Category Management,Athletics,Customer,ABAP,Hydraulics,ITI

    Employment Type : Unclear

    Experience : years

    Vacancy : 1

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