Sales Director - Photonics/Optics

Job Title: Sales Director – Photonics/Optics
Salary/Package: c£100,000 basic + 20% OTE + Share options scheme + benefits
Location: South of England

My client is looking for a Sales Director to join their rapidly expanding business. This is a strategic hire for the business and comes on the back of two company acquisitions in the last 12 months.

They now have sales functions in the UK, Spain and North America. This role will be responsible for the teams in those locations and for driving sales across the Group.
They currently turnover $14 million as a group and are targeting to double that in the next four years.

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate that they've grown sales in a similar way.

This role will involve travel to their Southampton HQ and their offices in Spain and North America. Being based in the South of England would be helpful, but you could be based anywhere as long as you can come to Southampton, circa once a week, to begin with.

This will suit someone with Sales Director-level experience already, or someone in a Sales Manager function at larger companies looking to move into a smaller company and have more overall control of sales.

You will have experience in the Photonic/Optics industry, ideally in material science. You don't need to have spent your whole career in this sector, but you will have s...