Pitchup.com is hiring a
Head of Sales in Worldwide

Summary

The job is for a Head of Sales - Europe position at Pitchup, an award-winning outdoor holidays website. The role involves managing a team, developing strategies, building customer relationships, and expanding into new international markets. The candidate should have extensive sales leadership experience, fluency in English and French, and ideally be from the online travel, marketplace or ecommerce sector.

Requirements

• An extensive and successful track record within sales and commercial leadership (at least five years at a senior level)
• Demonstrable experience of building and executing a well-defined sales and new business strategy
• Track record of opening and building new international markets, whilst moving other markets to full maturity
• Experience of leading ideally multilingual telephone-based sales teams
• Fluent in English and French
• An understanding of ecommerce, tourism and leisure
• Strong analytical skills to interpret data and customer insights to unearth new opportunities
• Ability to work under pressure
• Advanced Salesforce skills
• Strong Excel and data analysis skills

Responsibilities

• Define and implement appropriate sales strategies/business plans to achieve sales/growth targets
• Define, own and exceed annual sales targets within assigned territories and accounts
• Build and maintain strong, long-lasting customer relationships within key accounts
• Understand category-specific landscapes and trends
• Report on forces that shift tactical budgets and strategic direction of accounts
• Recruit, train and mentor remote team members
• Work closely with other teams to increase listings' visibility

Benefits

• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays (pro-rated for part-time employees)
• Pension matched to 4%, private healthcare, life insurance, critical illness cover and income protection
• Discounts including: gym memberships, sports equipment, Caffe Nero, Odeon cinema and various hotel and retail outlets
• IT equipment
• Great staff discounts on Pitchup bookings across thousands of properties in 70 countries
• A work-from-home office equipment allowance
• Company away days
• Employee assistance helpline, in case you ever need someone to talk to
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Cycle to work scheme