Head of Sales
- Recruiter
- Reed
- Location
-
London
South East EnglandUnited Kingdom
- Salary
- 75000.00 - 117000.00 GBP Annual
- Posted
- 03 Sep 2021
- Closes
- 21 Sep 2021
- Job Title
- Director
- Category
- Human Resources
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Title: Head of Sales (Courses)Reporting to: Reed Courses DirectorDirect Reports: Sales Manager and Team LeaderLocation: Holborn, London (with flexibility to work from home each week) Salary: from GBP75k basic plus GBP42k OTB
Overview
As Head of Sales, you will be commercially–focused to ensure Reed Courses is growing revenue generation from B2B customers across Training Providers, Learning Instructors and Postgraduate client bases, while exploring other untapped market opportunities.
Here at Reed Courses our vision is simple: to connect people to a world of career opportunities online. We have a customer–first strategy which relies on a deep understanding of the needs of our users, both B2B and B2C.
As Head of Sales, you will be commercially–focused to ensure Reed Courses is growing revenue generation from B2B customers across Training Providers, Learning Instructors and Postgraduate client bases, while exploring other untapped market opportunities.
You will work collaboratively with other teams to execute our business strategy, with particular focus on helping Reed Courses maximise the commercial value of our services, and experiences that delight our users by delivering market–leading levels of value.
Key Responsibilities
As Heads of Sales at Reed Courses, you will:
- Be part of the Senior Leadership Team and will represent our commercial sales function at senior level
- Work with the business to create, own and deliver an ambitious commercial vision and strategy at Reed Courses
- Be responsible for building, managing, mentoring and developing a best in class Sales team and Customer Success teams.
- Ensure a user–centred approach to customer engagement across Sales and Customer teams
- Create a clear and transparent relationship with multiple business functions including Product and Marketing
- Being the strategic lead for the development of Reed Courses new products and services
- Develop new commercial opportunities in the education space, including ongoing creation of strategic commercial partnerships and exploring untapped new market opportunities
Skills and Experience
- Demonstrable leadership skills and experience of leading successful, high performing individuals and sales teams
- Extensive experience of creating and executing customer engagement strategies to deliver high levels of value to customers and the business
- A commercial and strategic mindset that allows you to navigate a crowded but exciting multi–competitor landscape
You've really got to have a great attitude. We're looking for people who want to make our users' lives better and make a great member of our team. We want to be exceptional – you've got to be too.
Benefits
- Flexible working as standard (including remote working options and flexible working hours)
- 10% weekly personal development time (PED only – remove for all other roles)
- Regular hack days with rewards for prize winners (PED only – remove for all other roles)
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Flexible holiday scheme (buy, sell and carry over your holiday)
- Paid time off to move home
- Contributory pension scheme
- Enhanced family leave benefits
- Insurance benefits including life assurance
- Love Mondays events
- Discount scheme including gyms and popular retailers
- Range of wellbeing and mental health support avenues
- Newly refurbished office in an amazing location, with countless bars, restaurants and theatres right on the doorstep
- These are just some of the great benefits we offer everyone working at Reed.co.uk!
Join Reed and help us achieve our purpose of improving lives through work.
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