Sales Director

You run the team. You don't set the strategy. Here, you'd do both.

A proven Scottish business with the room to double — looking for the leader to make it happen.

£100,000 + Bonus & Car Package | Scotland | Confidential

Sound familiar?

  • You lead a capable sales team and consistently hit the number.
  • But the plan isn't yours — targets, priorities and approach all come down from above.
  • You execute someone else's strategy well. You just never get to write it.
  • After enough years of that, the ceiling starts to show.

Why this role exists now

  • After more than two decades of steady, profitable growth, the business is deliberately levelling up — not filling a gap.
  • Its capability has expanded, and the senior team are stepping back from day-to-day sales to pursue bigger opportunities across the group.
  • That's freed the space, for the first time, to bring in outside sales leadership to take the whole function on.
  • The people who built it believe it can be twice the size. This is the role that gets it there.

What you'd actually own

  • Which sectors and accounts to go after, and where the growth comes from.
  • How deals are priced and structured.
  • How to weight the two sales motions — long-cycle tender work against faster relationship selling.
  • Who you hire, and how you build the team.
  • You'd report to the owners directly, not through three layers of them.

Why the business wins

  • It holds regulatory licences and accreditations many competitors simply can't match — opening public-sector and tightly regulated work most rivals are locked out of.
  • Full chain-of-custody capability and its own infrastructure — the operational credibility that large, security-conscious clients insist on.
  • Long-standing customers and high retention, particularly across the public sector — a base that keeps paying, not a churn machine.
  • That capability is exactly why serious competition in Scotland is thin.

The market you'd be handed

  • The client base spans major public and private-sector organisations — anyone running significant IT is a genuine prospect.
  • Real headroom across Scotland, with whole sectors barely touched.
  • Demand is growing, and few credible competitors are positioned to take it.

Two sales motions to balance

  • Long cycle: public-sector tenders and frameworks, won on rigour, patience and knowing the process.
  • Short cycle: relationship-led private-sector work with large IT users, won on trust and becoming the name they call.
  • Running both at once is rare — and how you weight them is yours to decide.

Yours to run

  • Privately owned and owner-managed. Direct access to the owners, and decisions that get made fast.
  • You'll inherit loyal customers, an established team and real headroom to grow.
  • What happens next is largely down to you.

Who it's for

  • An established sales leader — head of sales, national sales manager, sales director — ready to set direction, not just deliver it.
  • Someone who wants out of the corporate machine and a genuine change of scene.
  • A steady hand who sets a clear course, listens first, and respects what already works.

Who it's not for

  • Anyone looking to charge in and tear up what works to make a point.
  • This business values judgement over ego — respect earns influence here far faster than noise.

The package

  • £100,000 basic, plus bonus and car package.

Five years from now, this is either a sales function someone else shaped — or one with your fingerprints all over it. A proven business with the room to double, and the autonomy to decide how. Get in touch, in complete confidence.

Job Details

Company
Sales Recruit UK
Location
Greater Glasgow Area, United Kingdom
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