Oxygen 8 Recruitment
Vice President of Sales
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VP, Sales Team Lead – Healthcare Market Research | UK (Hybrid)
Ready to lead a high-performing sales team at a global leader in healthcare insights?
Oxygen 8 Recruitment is partnering with a globally recognised healthcare market research and data collection business to appoint a VP, Sales Team Lead to its UK leadership team.
Our client sits at the heart of the pharma and healthcare research ecosystem, with access to one of the world's largest proprietary physician and healthcare professional panels. Their research, technology, and insight solutions help clients make better decisions that ultimately improve patient outcomes.
The Role
Reporting directly to the Chief Revenue Officer, you'll lead a team of 5–7 sales professionals across VP, AVP, and Account Manager levels. This is a true player-coach leadership role: you'll own team revenue and profit targets, coach and develop your people, and stay close to clients, joining calls and in-person visits alongside your team.
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What you'll be doing
- Leading, coaching, and performance-managing a team of VPs, AVPs, and Account Managers to hit and exceed individual and team revenue goals
- Owning quarterly revenue and gross profit targets for your team
- Driving new business while growing and protecting key accounts
- Shaping bid strategy to maximise margin, and mentoring your team to do the same
- Tracking sales KPIs across bidding and behavioural metrics to keep performance high and workloads balanced
- Building strategic account plans that bring the full product suite to clients
- Partnering closely with delivery leads to ensure a seamless client experience from quote to invoice
- Contributing ideas and strategy as part of the UK Leadership Team
What you'll bring
- 7+ years in sales, including 5+ years in sales management
- A strong background in healthcare and/or global market research (qual and quant)
- Proven performance management skills and a track record of building motivated, competitive, supportive teams
- Strong commercial and analytical skills, with the ability to diagnose and turn around performance
- A polished, confident presence with excellent presentation skills, comfortable acting as the senior face of key accounts
- Bachelor's degree required; MBA or Master's a plus
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What's on offer
- Competitive base salary + bonus/commission
- Hybrid working
- Senior leadership visibility with a direct line to the CRO
- The backing of a global, well-resourced business with a market-leading HCP network
Interested or like to know more?
Apply via LinkedIn or message Orrey at OX8 directly for a confidential conversation.
Applications are treated in the strictest confidence. Oxygen 8 Recruitment is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all backgrounds.
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