Sales Director

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Sales Director

We’re looking for a Sales Director who will take full ownership of our growing sales function - building and scaling a repeatable sales process and accelerating our landgrab in the healthtech SaaS space.

This is the perfect role for a talented sales leader who wants a chance to develop and scale a sales function in a rapidly growing tech company, as well as personally own the sales process of our biggest target accounts.

Who is Healthera

Healthera is an exciting health-tech business that is growing rapidly and looking for a driven Sales Director. You will have full responsibility for the sales function.

Healthera provides patients with medicines, healthcare services and products through the largest digital platform of pharmacies in the UK, including national chains and independent providers.

Already working in partnership with over 1600 pharmacies across the UK (that is over 10% of all UK pharmacies), Healthera’s SaaS platform offering has won the business of some of UK’s largest and most influential pharmacy chains such as Superdrug, Alliance Healthcare, etc. Now, our mission is to bring this platform and digital capability to 3000+ more pharmacies over the next 3 years.

Role Overview

As Sales Director, your key goal will be to keep our expanding sales team hits their sales and revenue targets.

This will include holding regular team meetings to ensure targets are being met, monitoring performance & activity, coaching and mentoring the sales team, hiring new sales team members, and being on top of the pipeline, sales KPI and forecasts.

You will be building playbooks, implementing improvements to our CRM database, as well as improving the overall operational efficiencies of the pre and post-sales processes.

In addition, you’ll be excited at the prospect of personally handling the sales and ongoing relationship/project management with some of the biggest pharmacy chains in the country.

Key Responsibilities

Lead from the front - Work strategically to ensure every member of your team hits their targets

Training & Development - design and deliver frequent sales coaching to BDM’s and SDR’s, to improve cold outreach, pitches, virtual and in-person demonstrations and lead closing

Strategy - work within the SMT to build monthly and quarterly sales strategies

Offer Building - consistently review and improve the positioning of our sales offering, pricing and offers

Get stuck in - take a leading hand in pitching and contract negotiations for larger deals

KPI’s - set data-driven targets and expectations

Tools - manage the sales-side of our CRM, and build on the use of additional tools and softwares to improve the sales team internally and externally

Recruitment - hire into and grow the existing sales team

The Person

You’ll be a born-leader with a clear ability to inspire your team and keep them motivated, even when targets seem out of reach

You’ll have excellent communication and adaptability, with the ability to work with all throughout the business to grow revenue opportunities

You will have demonstrated experience in building and optimising sales processes and material

You’ll be experienced with frontline sales work (ideally via video calling, cold calling, and in-person selling) and comfortable closing large deals

You’ll be data-driven and understand the importance of tracking metrics, and subsequently how to utilise them when developing targets and strategies

You’ll be able to stay cool under pressure and keep your focus on the bigger picture of driving revenue

Requirements

SaaS sales leadership experience is required

At lea st 3-5 years of e xperience in a similar role, leading sales teams in a fast paced and dynamic scaleup/SME environment, demonstrating consistent results with a strong understanding of processes, targets, and strategies

Has scaled and built a sales team before - from hiring, training, process-building, developing playbooks, to ongoing KPI management

Demonstrated track record of exceeding sales team targets

Healthcare sector experience is good to have

Proficiency in sales training, strategy design / implementation, and people management.

Good experience producing customer presentations and delivering them at a high level

Excellent commercial acumen in decision-making and delivery

Experience in a fast-paced environment, whilst maintaining clear communication and strategy delivery

Bachelor's degree or higher is desir able

We offer

An excellent opportunity to contribute to and be a part of building and delivering a scaling business strategy in a unique space

Competitive salary and commission/bonus structure based on performance

Share options to directly benefit from the growth of the business

Private health insurance and thousands of pounds worth of health & wellbeing-related perks

Growth opportunities within the role

Experienced team, fun working environment

Bespoke training based on personal goals and ambitions

On-site work required at least 3-4 days per week. Healthera will be opening a London office by June 2024, location to be confirmed. Head office located in Cambridge, UK.