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Sales Director - Managing Director (Sales Focus) Designate – Niche Metals Distributor
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Sales Director - Managing Director (Sales Focus) Designate – Niche Metals Distributor
Location: Sheffield Area
Industry: Specialist metals and high-performance alloys
Remuneration Package: Up to £125k base salary (DOE), £200k OTE. The package will include a company car, annual bonus, and equity participation.
We are partnered with a highly regarded specialist metals business recently acquired by an ambitious PE approach owner, supplying high-performance metals and precision alloys to a diverse range of demanding end markets, including electronics manufacturing, aerospace, defence, energy, medical, and advanced manufacturing.
This represents an outstanding opportunity for a commercially astute, ambitious, and competitive Sales Director, looking to take the next step towards Managing Director or a sales-led Managing Director, to assume leadership of a well-established platform and drive its next phase of growth. The business serves customers across the UK and internationally, with approximately 50% of sales generated through export markets, and offers the opportunity to build through organic growth and further through potential acquisitions.
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Key Responsibilities
- Personally drive and lead new business, visiting new customers and potential targets.
- Develop and lead the existing sales team.
- Set and execute ambitious sales strategies to drive growth in multiple markets.
- Strengthen and grow key customer relationships across aerospace, defence, semiconductor, medical, and energy sectors, supporting major accounts and new business development.
- Take ownership of the P&L, drive profitability, and ensure operational excellence.
- Oversight of day-to-day operations, ensuring the team follows all processes and resources are in place from lead sourcing through sales to order fulfillment and dispatch.
- Manage a team of approximately 15 employees.
- Identify potential value-added acquisitions and support the diligence process.
About You
- Driven, competitive, and ambitious by nature.
- Highly numerate.
- Experience in the specialty steel or nickel alloy industry or in selling to corporate clients, including OEMs, in the industries noted above currently supplied by the Company.
- Proven track record of delivering sales and profit growth.
- Strong leadership experience, ideally in a senior commercial or sales-focused role.
- Experience managing supply chains, stock inventory, and quality systems, ideally including AS9120/ISO 9001 environments.
- Experience with international markets and export sales.
- Hands-on entrepreneurial and target-driven mindset.
- Excellent communicator and relationship builder.
- Must have a “sleeves rolled up” approach relevant for a company of this size.
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What We Offer
- Competitive base salary, company car, pension & health schemes.
- Generous bonus scheme linked to performance.
- Significant capital gain potential via an attractive equity participation scheme.
- Opportunity to shape the future of a respected UK specialist metals business.
How to Apply
If you’re an ambitious, driven, commercially focused leader with a sales focus, we would love to hear from you. Please apply by attaching your CV and a covering note.
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