Sales Lead, Head of Sales

Lead High-Performing Sales Teams. Drive Operational Excellence. Shape Business Growth.

We are partnering with a leading global professional services organisation to hire an experienced Acquisition Functional Lead to oversee the performance, development, and operational success of a large acquisition sales function supporting a global technology client.

This is a senior leadership opportunity for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, target-driven environment and enjoys developing leaders, driving sales excellence, and influencing strategic business outcomes. You'll play a key role in ensuring operational performance, delivering commercial results, and creating a culture of continuous improvement.

The Opportunity

As the Functional Lead, you'll provide leadership across multiple sales teams, ensuring they consistently achieve commercial objectives while delivering an outstanding customer experience. Working closely with Operations, Client Services, Enablement, Quality, and Workforce Planning, you'll help shape business strategy, improve operational efficiency, and build a high-performing organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop multiple sales managers and high-performing acquisition sales teams.
• Drive performance against revenue, productivity, quality, and operational KPIs.
• Create a culture of accountability, coaching, engagement, and continuous development.
• Partner closely with senior client stakeholders to ensure business objectives are achieved.
• Analyse sales performance, identify trends, and implement improvement initiatives based on data and insights.
• Lead operational planning, resource optimisation, and forecasting to support business growth.
• Champion process improvement and transformation initiatives to enhance sales effectiveness and customer outcomes.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Quality, Training, Workforce Management, HR, and Client Success teams to deliver operational excellence.
• Manage escalations and support strategic decision-making across the function.

What We're Looking For

• Extensive leadership experience(Over 7 years managing overall) managers and large, high-performing sales organisations in ADTech environment.
• Strong background in acquisition sales, inside sales, or business development environments.
• Demonstrated success driving revenue growth, sales productivity, and operational performance.
• Experience working within complex, client-facing, KPI-driven organisations.
• Proven ability to coach and develop leaders while building a strong performance culture.
• Strong commercial acumen with excellent analytical, forecasting, and decision-making skills.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience engaging senior client leadership.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment.

Why This Opportunity?

• Join a global organisation supporting one of the world's leading technology brands.
• Lead a large-scale acquisition sales function with significant strategic impact.
• Influence business performance, operational excellence, and leadership development.
• Work within an international, collaborative environment with strong long-term career progression.
• Hybrid working model (3 days onsite) with a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.