Sales and Marketing Manager

**Sales and Marketing Manager**
- 'Recruiting for your future success’_

Our client is a family-owned company with values to match and an energetic, resourceful team of transport professionals. They work in an essential sector of the economy - supplying high-quality, reliable transport and distribution services to business toprovide a vital link in the supply chain of their customers. This role comes with an exciting opportunity to grow with the company and be a leading part in all aspects of their marketing and relationship with customers as well as part of the next chapter intheir success story.

**Sales and Marketing Manager**

**Up to £40k DOE |** Woolpit (Bury St Edmonds) | Mon-Fri | 8:30am-5pm | 28 days holiday (including Bank Holidays) | profit share (after 1 year) | Performance bonus | Company pension | Cycle to work | Childcare Voucher Scheme | Professional Development| Onsite parking |

As **Sales and Marketing manager** in a newly created role, you will have the opportunity to develop and grow the commercial team and your responsibilities in the company. You will be leading all aspects of our sales and marketing with responsibilityfor both new business and growing existing customers. Our client is looking for an ambitious sales and marketing professional to lead out future growth and shape our products and services to increase our customer base and maximise sales with existing clients.

You will be working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with a key role in the development of products and services as well as control over the management of key accounts to give clear insight and understanding into transport and logistics industry trendsand requirements.

**Duties (include but are not limited to)**

Sales/New Business Development:

- Managing tariffs and pricing strategies in line with company financial targets
- Undertaking customer surveys and reporting on competitors and market activity
- Initiating key account development plans to grow sales with existing customers
- Working with Operations and Customer Service teams
- Researching and developing new sectors and prospects
- Prospecting, qualifying, and responding to sales leads
- Co-ordinating and driving sales activities using our CRM (Pipedrive)
- Creating, writing and presenting new customer and business proposals

Marketing, Branding & Communications:

- Initiating marketing strategies to align and support the company’s Vision and 10-Year Plan
- Managing the marketing budget
- Defining the components and processes of their sales engine
- Creating imaginative social media posts and campaigns to grow their external brand
- Initiating and preparing Awards entries
- Developing and managing new content for our website
- Supporting our internal brand awareness communications campaigns

**Person Specification**
- Minimum 4 years’ experience in a marketing role
- 1 years’ experience with CRM (preferably pipeline)
- MS Office (PowerPoint, Excel & Word)
- Educated to degree level
- Full Drivers licence
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Resourceful; able to work on own initiative
- Well-organised and analytical approach
- Curious; dynamic; able to see beyond the obvious

LIGHTHOUSE PERSONNEL LTD ARE A RECRUITMENT AGENCY WORKING ON BEHALF OF A CLIENT.

PLEASE NOTE WE RECEIVE A LARGE NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS PER VACANCY AND UNFORTUNATELY CANNOT RESPOND TO ALL APPLICANTS. THEREFORE, IF YOU HAVE NOT HEARD FROM US WITHIN A MONTH FROM APPLICATION DATE, IT IS LIKELY THAT YOU HAVE BEEN UNSUCCESSFUL.

If you have been successful, we will contact you by the phone and begin taking you through our step by step recruitment process, doing our utmost to ensure the role is right for you, ascertaining your suitability in the process. This process will all beexplained on initial contact.