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Account Director - Defence Sales

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Account Director - Defence Sales
Role: Account Director
Location: London, Hybrid working & client site visits
Salary: Up to £105k
We're working with a leading UK consultancy & R&D organisation that is looking to expand their Defence sales team.
Seeing great success over the past 18+ months delivering critical projects for MOD customers across cloud & data transformation, the team is now looking to further break into the Naval & Air domains.
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They're looking for a business-winning forward AD to join them in taking their consulting & innovation solutions to market.
The role would be well suited to an individual from a consulting sales background, or from a service sales background, but the team is open to individuals with experience of longer sales cycles into defence customers.


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The role;
- Taking technical solutions to MOD customers.
- Ensuring client satisfaction & delivery.
- Commission based OTE.
- Salary up to £105k
The role will be hybrid and will require occasional visits to the London office, but with the majority of the time spent on the road with customers.
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