Executive General Manager – Sales and Marketing

To continue the growth and success of this multi layered organisation they need to welcome to their team an Executive General Manager with the experience, capability and talent to lead the Sales and Marketing portfolio.

As an integral member of the Executive Management Team, the ideal candidate will be an accomplished and highly skilled leadership professional.

Reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer, your primary objective will be to lead the design and transformation of the newly formed Sales and Marketing function. This will include identifying and implementing innovative sales and marketing strategies, product and business development within a greenfield environment.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Responsible for the development and delivery of the strategic plan to achieve business objectives, drive profit and champion customer experience
• Identify new and existing business opportunities to increase the growth of the organisation, promoting strong client engagement, retention and attraction strategies
• Identify and operationalise commercial market opportunities
• Establish a structured multi-channel sales framework across the business operations with a focus on building a high-performance sales culture
• Working in partnership with the COO and Service Delivery team to enable organisational objectives to be achieved
• Maintain an up to date understanding of competitor knowledge, contemporary practices and market opportunities
• Responsible for effective financial management reporting and sales forecasting
• Participate as an active member of the Executive Management Team
• Establish and maintain business partnerships with key stakeholders both internally and externally
• Provide leadership, direction, mentoring and professional development to a large team of experienced sales and marketing professionals
• Communicate and report effectively to the Chief Executive Officer and the Board.

Skills & Experience required

This is a rare opportunity to leverage your previous success within an organisation to drive the strategic management of this portfolio. To obtain this role you must be able to demonstrate substantial experience in providing high level strategic and operational leadership within a large and complex organisation.

Additionally you will possess the following:

• Appropriate Tertiary qualifications (a Post Graduate Degree is desirable)
• Experience in identifying and developing new market opportunities
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills
• Experience in staff development and values-based leadership
• Profit centre management within a large, multi-layered team
• Strong commercial business acumen with an innovative and entrepreneurial mindset.

This is a highly rewarding and significant role at an executive leadership level.