Recruit and hire a sales manager

We are specialists in all types of general sales recruitment and regularly recruit for businesses needing to hire a sales manager.

Our dedicated team work exclusively on sales recruitment, and have a great understanding of what is required. They’ll partner with you and take the time to learn not only what the job role entails, but also about your business, the culture and your long term goals.

Sales manager job description

This is a sample job description for a sales manager. You may need to revise this job description to meet the specific job duties and job requirements for your unique role. 

Sales manager job duties:

• • • • • Achieve growth and hit sales targets by successfully managing the sales team
        • Design and implement a strategic business plan that expands company’s customer base and ensure it’s strong presence
        • Own recruiting, objectives setting, coaching and performance monitoring of sales representatives
        • Build and promote strong, long-lasting customer relationships by partnering with them and understanding their needs
        • Present sales, revenue and expenses reports and realistic forecasts to the management team
        • Identify emerging markets and market shifts while being fully aware of new products and competition status

Sales manager skills and qualifications:

• • • • • Successful previous sales experience and consistently meeting or exceeding targets
        • Committed to continuous education through workshops, seminars and conferences
        • Demonstrated ability to communicate, present and influence credibly and effectively at all levels of the organisation
        • Proven ability to drive the sales process
        • Strong business sense and industry expertise
        • Excellent mentoring, coaching and people management skills

To recruit and hire a sales manager with us is simple and painless

To recruit and hire a sales manager with us is simple and painless. We invest our time getting to know you, your business, your goals, your environment and culture. This means we can find people we believe are a true match for you.

Our people are at the centre of Vanilla’s values and it’s their passion to ‘get it right’ that gives us our unique recruitment service, our excellent customer retention rates, and our fantastic repeat business levels from both clients and candidates.

We are proud to be an independent recruitment agency because it gives us the flexibility to form a true partnership with you. Across our 5 niche recruitment specialisms, our unified team are committed to getting you the results you need.

We are experts in matching the right candidates with the right businesses. We will work hard to understand your culture, needs and requirements, and we will only send you candidate details if we see a real fit being possible.

So, if you are looking for great talent across any of our specialisms within the East Midlands, please register your vacancy above and we’ll get back to you straight away. Alternatively please feel free to get in touch with us to discuss your recruitment needs.

Other pages of interest

For more useful information, news and resources feel free to look around our website and in particular our Client pages including Client Journey, Case Studies, Resources and our regularly updated Blog.

We recruit and hire temporary and permanent staff throughout the East Midlands covering Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Rutland and the surrounding areas, especially Market Harborough, Leicester, Lutterworth, Northampton, Corby and Kettering.