Sales & Marketing Manager - Software Consultancy

Key role for a savvy, creative Sales & Marketing Manager to head up the marketing and sales teams within a thriving ERP software solutions consultancy. As Head of Sales & Marketing, you will join the business at a senior level to provide strong leadership for the two teams and take responsibility for defining the company's sales & marketing strategy, build, manage and develop two happy, stable teams, and construct & deliver a robust marketing plan , ensuring that the sales team deliver on the leads generated.

Base salary to £70k plus benefits including private healthcare and discounts on a wide range of products. You can work remotely from home, but will need to come into their offices fairly regularly for meetings, so realistically you need to be living south of the Midlands, across to the west coast or down to the south coast.

As Sales & Marketing Manager, you will research and develop marketing opportunities, organising campaigns, events and activity and create and implement a new sales plan, whilst also managing the marketing & sales teams, setting targets, building a marketing strategy to deliver leads to the sales team, and refining the sales processes. You will represent the company's brand and drive strategies to increase product awareness by observing the market, their competitors, and the industry trends.

The company is a busy, award winning software consultancy of around 65 people with offices across 4 continents; you will need to work with their overseas marketing people when developing global campaigns, and to reduce duplication of effort. The company sells, implements and supports 3 market leading ERP solutions, plus they have their own in house development team who build bespoke solutions or develop add-ons for the products.

You will work with their software partners to ensure systems are developed with their market requirements in mind, and monitor the company's partner achievements to ensure targets are being met, in order to improve and maintain tier ratings and rewards from these partners, as well as maintaining contact with the clients to assist them with post-sales services, and presenting reports to the directors on sales and marketing activities, and at the monthly management meetings.

Your profile:

• Previous experience in a senior sales and marketing role for a software company
• Skilled in a wide variety of marketing, including digital, traditional and social media
• Robust sales and client service skills with hands-on experience of the sales process
• A creative manager & thinker, with strong leadership, interpersonal and communication skills
• Proven experience in developing and executing a sales and marketing strategy, and managing & driving sales & marketing teams
• Adept at creating a sales funnel and a consistent lead generation pipeline
• Produce sales documentation, statements of work, and contracts
• Able to conduct market research to identify price and demand of competing products
• Setting sales targets and allocating quotas
• Coaching, nurturing and developing people to ensure the teams are happy, engaged and productive
• Attention to detail and willingness to roll up your sleeves and get on with things
• Hopefully you have an upbeat, positive attitude, an enquiring mind, and a head full of ideas
• Any experience of ERP software solutions would be an advantage

This would be a great place for you to showcase and further develop your marketing & sales skills and help grow a thriving technology business nationally and globally. Contact Jake King or Carolyn MacLurg at Ambis Resourcing.