Head of Sales

Head of Sales
The role offers a competitive salary, a performance-based bonus scheme, a company car, and a comprehensive benefits package.
Leeds

The role offers a competitive salary, a performance-based bonus scheme, a company car, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Our Client

This UK-based business has over 40 years of experience supplying the automotive, repair, and maintenance industries. Operating from a purpose-built facility in Leeds, it stocks an extensive range of product lines. With a focus on consumables such as fasteners, electrical components, air-line systems, and clips, the company is ISO 9001 accredited and committed to delivering high-quality, reliable products to a wide network of industry customers.

The Role

This role will focus on driving both existing customer relationships and new business development, with a 50/50 split between account management and new customer acquisition. Reporting directly to the Directors, the successful candidate will lead and develop a team of National Sales Managers and work closely with the Sales Office Manager.

The role will play a key part in delivering commercial targets, expanding market share, and embedding a high-performance, customer-focused sales culture across the business.

This position would suit either an experienced Head of Sales or a high-performing sales leader who is ready to take the next step into a more senior, strategic role.

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate will be a driven and commercially minded sales professional with strong experience in field-based sales and business development, ideally within the automotive, MRO, or industrial consumables sectors.

They may already be operating at Head of Sales level, or they may be a Sales Manager, National Account Manager, or Team Leader with demonstrable experience of leading people, influencing strategy, and driving performance who is now ready to progress into a broader leadership role.

You will bring:

Proven success in developing key accounts and winning new business
Experience leading, coaching, or mentoring sales teams
The ability to contribute to sales strategy and translate it into clear actions
Strong communication skills and the confidence to engage at all levels of a customer organisation
A structured, customer-centric approach with strong commercial awareness
Experience managing managers and full P&L responsibility is advantageous but not essential; the business is open to supporting the right individual as they step up into a Head of Sales role.

To Apply

This is an excellent opportunity in an established, reliable and customer-orientated business. Interested parties should apply accordingly or contact John Pease in the first instance for a confidential conversation. Contact details can be found via the Newman Stewart website.

About Us

Newman Stewart is a boutique executive search firm, delivering high-performing candidates to high-profile and mission-critical assignments. With a proven track record of success globally, we are the recruitment partner of choice to many blue chip, medium and small organisations, providing Executive Search, Management Selection and Psychometric Assessment Services to its clients