Head of Sales & Customer Services

Sales jobs >> Business Development

Negotiable

Permanent

Description

A strategic leader driving growth and excellence across our Sales, Account Management, and Customer Service teams.

We're looking for a commercially astute, people-focused leader to shape and deliver our customer-facing strategy across UK and international markets. You'll lead a high-performing team, champion customer experience, and play a pivotal role in scaling our business.

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who thrives on both strategic thinking and operational delivery. You'll set the tone for outstanding customer interactions, inspire your team, and drive performance through data, coaching, and collaboration.

What You'll Be Doing

Lead & Inspire: Manage and develop a team, including two-line managers, across Sales, Account Management, and Customer Service.
Strategic Delivery: Design and execute a customer-facing strategy that aligns with business goals and elevates customer experience.
Performance Management: Use KPIs, data insights, and coaching to drive team performance and continuous improvement.
Relationship Building: Strengthen our Account Management function to deepen relationships with high-value and repeat customers.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Finance, Marketing, and Compliance to streamline processes and improve communication.
Team Development: Oversee recruitment, onboarding, and training to build a resilient, high-performing team culture.
Customer Advocacy: Act as a senior escalation point and champion the voice of the customer in strategic discussions.
Operational Excellence: Lead process improvements and adopt new technologies to enhance team capability and efficiency.What You'll Bring

Proven leadership experience in Sales and/or Customer Service within a fast-paced, commercial environment.
Strong strategic thinking with the ability to translate vision into actionable plans.
Experience managing multi-layered teams and coaching line managers.
Data-driven mindset with a track record of using KPIs to drive performance.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Background in E-commerce, Financial Services, or high-value product sectors (bullion, luxury goods, etc.) is a plus.
Comfortable leading through change and embedding new ways of working.
Calm, decisive, and empathetic approach to complex situations.At Gleeson Recruitment Group, we embrace inclusivity and welcome applicants of all backgrounds, experiences, and abilities. We are proud to be a disability confident employer.

By applying you will be registered as a candidate with Gleeson Recruitment Limited. Our Privacy Policy is available on our website and explains how we will use your data
  • 1
  • Negotiable
  • None
  • None
  • CV-187376
  • Permanent
  • 6

How to Apply: Please click here to create a free Pure-jobs.com account and post your resume. Only logged in job seekers can apply for a job.

Find us at:

Never provide bank account, credit card details or any other financial information, or make any form of payment, when applying for a job. If you are ever asked to do this by a recruiter on Pure Jobs please click the Report button or contact us with the advertiser's company name and the title of the job vacancy. You should not send any money to anyone. A genuine employer with a job offer would never ask you to do this.

Report this job
x

Report a job

If you're concerned about a job advert, let us know and our quality team will investigate.

Your name(*)
Invalid Input

Your email address(*)
Invalid Input

Please select you reason(*)

Additional information(*)
Invalid Input

Invalid Input

Get new jobs for this search by email.

Also get an email with jobs recommended just for me.

Create Alert



Subscribe to updates from our blog

PLEASE NOTE! WE USE COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE BEST USER EXPERIENCES

However, by continuing to use the site without changing settings, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.