National Sales Manager

National Sales Manager - Corporate New Business Salary: Up to £85,000 pa (depends on experience) with extensive benefits. Location: Field Based Hours / Contract Type: Full Time Permanent (35 hours per week) Closing Date: 23/12/2025 – We reserve the right to close the advert earlier if a high volume of applications is received. What You’ll Be Doing Lead multi‑level customer relationships, including meetings and presentations with C‑suite contacts at FTSE 250 companies. Support fleet department strategy development and lead proposition development projects. Achieve ambitious sales, profit and other objectives as agreed with the Head of Fleet Sales for existing strategic and corporate business. Support the effective bids and tenders process of new business clients by ensuring a professional and structured response. Develop and execute an annual sales plan for all relevant channels, balancing ambition and strategic planning to ensure smart, profitable year‑on‑year growth. Provide senior‑level sponsorship for strategic prospects, supporting high‑value sales opportunities and acting as a point of resolution for client escalations to ensure optimum customer experience. Engage, train, develop, motivate and lead the Strategic Sales Managers and Corporate Business Development Managers to achieve national targets through regular team and individual performance meetings. Support the effective implementation of new business clients by ensuring a professional and structured implementation process. Measure and control fleet spend by sales channel to ensure sales targets are delivered in line with the budget. What You’ll Bring An experienced sales leader within the fleet/financial services industry. Experience managing a remote field‑based sales team with a proven track record of success. Essential Experience & Skills Ability to build effective relationships and successfully negotiate at Board of Director level across complex organisational structures, including our customer base, VWG and VWFS. Deep understanding of the Master Lease Agreement with excellent commercial acumen. High level of interpersonal, influencing and communication skills. Strong leadership and coaching skills. Strong drive and tenacity to achieve targets and results. Capability to train, develop and motivate sales teams. Excellent organisation and planning skills, delivering high‑quality output to deadlines. Professional and credible with proven stakeholder‑management ability. Strategic thinker who is action‑oriented and can produce initiatives quickly to maintain competitiveness in the vehicle solutions market (Contract Hire & related Value‑Added Products). What’s in it for you? Company Bonus: Discretionary 10% on‑target bonus (based on personal and group company performance). Sales Bonus: Opportunity to earn up to an additional £21k per annum based on meeting key performance metrics. Pension: Employer contribution of 9% (based on employee contribution of 3%). VWFS will pay 6% if employee chooses a 2% contribution. Car Schemes*: Choice of Employee Car Ownership (ECO) scheme for petrol/diesel and hybrid vehicles plus car insurance and fuel card; OR Company Car scheme for Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) plus car insurance cover for you and a partner/eligible family member. Income protection, life assurance (4x salary), retail discount vouchers, Care Concierge service (support for carers of adults), will‑writing service, cycle‑to‑work scheme (subject to scheme restrictions). After successful completion of probation: private medical insurance for you (with option to buy additional family cover), loan car scheme for up to 2 cars for partner/eligible family members (subject to scheme restrictions) and option to purchase critical illness cover and dental cover during annual benefit window. LinkedIn Learning via Degreed platform, professional development programmes, mentoring schemes and reciprocal partnerships to support career progression. Why join VWFS UK? You’ll have the opportunity to make a difference by helping us achieve our mission: to be 'The Key to Mobility'. We provide a range of finance and after‑sales products on Volkswagen Group vehicles and develop innovative mobility solutions that solve real problems and support our customers. No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you VWFS is proud to be an inclusive employer and encourages applications from a diverse range of candidates. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion isn’t just a statement for us; we encourage and aspire for all our colleagues to be their 100% self. If you need any reasonable adjustments to assist you with the application and/or recruitment processes, please contact our Resourcing Team. #J-18808-Ljbffr