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Sales Director UK
Location: Home-based, UK | Travel throughout the UK
Lead the Future of Digital Water Infrastructure
Are you a consultative sales professional who thrives on solving complex engineering challenges rather than selling transactional software?
Influx Search is partnering with a globally recognised provider of advanced optimisation software that is transforming how water utilities plan, design and invest in critical infrastructure. Their cloud-based platform enables utilities to make smarter capital investment decisions, delivering significant operational efficiencies and helping customers save millions of pounds across major infrastructure programmes.
As demand for digital transformation across the UK water sector continues to accelerate, we are looking to appoint a commercially driven Sales Director UK to lead new business development and strategic account growth across the region.
The Opportunity
This is a genuine hands-on sales leadership role where you will own the complete sales cycle from prospecting through to contract award.
Working closely with the Chief Revenue Officer, you'll become the trusted commercial partner to some of the UK's largest water utilities, helping them rethink traditional approaches to infrastructure planning through adoption of cutting-edge technology.
You'll inherit established relationships whilst developing new opportunities across utilities, engineering consultancies and strategic partners.
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What You'll Be Doing
- Own the UK sales target and personally deliver new software bookings.
- Manage the complete consultative sales process from lead generation through to contract award.
- Develop strategic relationships across existing utility customers whilst identifying new growth opportunities.
- Build credibility with engineering, digital, innovation and executive stakeholders.
- Create and execute account development plans across key UK utilities.
- Maintain an accurate Salesforce pipeline with regular forecasting and reporting.
- Mentor the UK Account Manager on live opportunities and major pursuits.
- Represent the business at customer meetings, conferences and industry events.
What We're Looking For
You'll combine technical credibility with outstanding commercial instincts.
Ideally you'll bring:
- Experience selling complex software, engineering or digital solutions into the water utility supply chain, or broader infrastructure sectors.
- A proven track record of winning high-value, long sales cycle opportunities.
- Strong understanding of the UK water industry and AMP investment cycles.
- The ability to engage confidently with engineers, digital teams and executive stakeholders.
- Technical aptitude to understand SaaS platforms and cloud technology.
- Excellent communication, presentation and relationship-building skills.
- Degree qualified within Engineering or another relevant technical discipline.
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Experience with hydraulic modelling, network planning software or working alongside engineering consultancies would be highly advantageous.
Why Join?
This is an opportunity to join a highly respected technology business at a pivotal stage of growth within the UK market.
You'll enjoy genuine autonomy, the flexibility of a home-based role, and the opportunity to influence how some of the UK's largest water companies invest billions in future infrastructure.
The package includes:
- Competitive basic salary (£80,000 - £100,000 depending on experience)
- Lucrative commission structure
- Private healthcare
- Pension contribution
- Flexible, remote-first working
If you're looking for a technically engaging commercial role where you can genuinely influence the future of the UK's water infrastructure, we'd love to hear from you.
If you would like further information on the opportunity before applying, please reach out to Lyle King at Influx Search.
About Influx Search
Influx Search is a global executive and specialty search recruitment consultancy that helps businesses find the best talent across a wide range of water, clean-tech and environmental applications.
Our mission is clear: to streamline, optimise, and propel your business's recruitment plans.
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