Full-Time Area Sales Director

• Implement our Field Sales strategy, driving growth and nurturing our customer base to meet and exceed company sales targets. 
• Craft a tailored area plan that aligns with our commercial strategy, taking into account the unique nuances of your territory. 
• Maintain a focus on revenue forecasting and weekly reporting, while striving to boost client retention and enhance acquisition value.
• Lead with passion and precision, demonstrating exemplary leadership and people management skills. 
• Empower your sales team through impactful coaching, clear objective setting, and continuous development. 
• Leverage cutting-edge sales systems and support tools like Salesforce, Buzzboard, and LinkedIn to maintain a disciplined sales approach.
• Utilise your analytical prowess to make data-driven decisions that enhance customer interactions and drive success. 
• Consistently deliver our Reach Field strategy across your team, ensuring the seamless adoption of standard KPIs and methodologies. 
• Transform market insights into innovative product requirements, gathering valuable data to refine our strategic direction.
• Harness past campaign data to forecast trends, developing actionable insights that propel future campaigns to new heights.
• Collaborate with Senior Management to unlock maximum revenue opportunities, ensuring consistency in our approach and accountability in applying people policies and procedures.
• Partner with HR to attract, cultivate, and retain top talent, using employee engagement feedback to drive continuous improvement. 
• Set the standard by leading from the front—matching the prowess of your sales team in every aspect of the sales process.
• Highly numerate and an excellent commercial thinking, able to identify and maximise revenue opportunities and report performance accurately High-impact, engaging personality with the energy to effect change and influence outcomes
• Demonstrable leadership qualities, capable of motivating and managing teams and individuals and takes responsibility for own and others development, striving to create a high performance culture 
• Strong working knowledge of digital, national and regional media and the Reach portfolio 
• Ability to communicate market feedback into product requirements
•  Communication, including written, face-to-face, presentation skills and the ability to cascade consistent messages for maximum impact
• Experience of driving and delivering high revenue via a field sales operation
• Experience in sales and business development
• Experience in utilising various ad serving technology, reporting tools, and trading platforms

Plus, as part of the Reach family you’ll have access to a brilliant range of benefits, including:

• Awesome career opportunities - you’ll have support from your line manager and a range of learning & development programmes
• Help saving for your retirement - you can join our pension scheme and we’ll match contributions up to 6%
• 25 days’ holiday per year when you join. After three, five and ten years’ service with Reach, you’ll accrue one additional day of annual leave. We also have a Holiday Purchase Scheme
• Enhanced family leave - including maternity, paternity and adoption - and you’ll be eligible after just six months’ employment
• Private Healthcare Cash Plan - free health cash plan so you can claim back cash for a range of medical expenses
• Wellbeing support - including a 24/7 assistance programme for you and your nearest and dearest
• Giving back day - an additional day’s leave each year to support a cause close to your heart
• As one of the UK’s top 50 Inclusive Employers everyone’s invited to join our events, programmes and networks to celebrate diversity and build an environment where all our people can thrive