About the role

  • Head of Sales overseeing the UK telesales organization at Carwow Group. Leading sales strategy execution and managing team performance across multiple locations in the UK.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the Sell-My-Car telesales organisation, taking full ownership of sales conversion, revenue delivery, and overall sales performance.
  • Execute and continuously refine sales strategies to meet daily trading targets, elevating processes and operations to maximise productivity and revenue per FTE.
  • Set clear performance expectations, distribute team targets aligned to business goals, and oversee team-wide metrics to drive focus and accountability.
  • Manage the full sales pipeline, ensuring optimal workload balance, opportunity management, and adherence to SLA’s through your sales team leaders.
  • Identify risks to the plan early, escalate appropriately, and drive mitigation actions.
  • Ensure robust structures, quality controls, and standards are in place across all sales interactions to protect and enhance customer experience for both consumers & dealer partners.
  • Champion improvements to systems, tooling, and sales enablement, partnering cross-functionally to prioritise initiatives with highest impact.
  • Oversee & sign off rota planning to ensure consistent coverage and readiness to meet volume demands year-round.
  • Drive continuous improvement, identifying operational inefficiencies and implementing enhancements that lift productivity and service quality.
  • Lead, coach, and mentor your Sales Team Leaders, empowering them to develop high-performing teams and maintain a strong performance culture.
  • Oversee recruitment, training, and onboarding frameworks to ensure new hires are equipped to ramp quickly and succeed.
  • Conduct regular team and leadership meetings to align on updates, share best practices, and proactively address challenges.
  • Represent Sales within the Sell-My-Car senior leadership team, owning weekly performance reporting, strategic updates, and forward plans.
  • Collaborate closely with Fulfilment, Product, Marketing, and Commercial stakeholders to ensure seamless coordination and unified delivery across the customer journey.
  • Handle high-priority escalations and resolve complex seller issues, safeguarding customer satisfaction and brand reputation.
  • Contribute to the creation and execution of broader business initiatives that enhance the seller experience and support long-term growth.

Requirements

  • Proven experience in a sales leadership role, within high pace, high volume telesales environments
  • Previous leadership of sales teams of 20+ individual contributors, with experience leading other people managers
  • Record of achievement managing team performance within a target focused environment, overseeing goals across revenue generation, lead pipeline management & SLA’s towards metrics of response time, outbound calling activity & lead conversion.
  • Excellent communication, interpersonal, and coaching skills, with the ability to motivate and inspire team members.
  • Solid understanding of how to define a sales process to align with customer journeys & product roadmaps. With the ability to map out necessary requirements across sales enablement, system & process & goal setting
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify trends, analyze data, and implement effective solutions in line with senior leadership strategies
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team, contributing to a positive and collaborative work environment.
  • Prior experience in the automotive industry is desirable, but not essential
  • Experience working with CRM systems (preferably Salesforce) and other relevant software tools to manage a sales process

Benefits

  • Competitive comp package
  • 28 days' holiday plus bank holidays, increasing to 35 with length of service, plus extras for house moves, weddings and more!
  • Employee-friendly share options
  • Pension scheme via Royal London - up to 5% company contribution
  • Vitality private healthcare insurance
  • Life Assurance - 4x annual salary
  • Monthly coaching sessions with Spill - our mental wellbeing partner
  • Inclusive parental, partner and shared parental leave including up to 20 weeks' full pay maternity and shared parental leave, and 8 weeks' full partner pay, as well as fertility treatment and pregnancy loss policies
  • Bubble childcare support and discounted nanny fees for little ones
  • 'Work from abroad for a month' annual scheme
  • Generous learning and development budget
  • £500 home office budget

Job title

Head of Sales

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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