About the role

  • Sales Lead at Sword focusing on AI & Data transformation services, driving revenue growth and customer relationships across Energy, Financial Services, and Public Sector.

Responsibilities

  • Develop & deliver a successful sales strategy to grow and diversify customer base
  • Achieve and exceed personal and team revenue targets
  • Grow and diversify pipeline across Energy, FS, and Public Sector
  • Position organisation as a trusted transformation partner
  • Build, lead, and develop a scalable, high‑performing sales team
  • Drive predictable forecasting, strong deal qualification, and value‑based selling
  • Own a personal sales quota focused on new business and strategic expansion
  • Lead complex, multi‑stakeholder transformation deals end‑to‑end
  • Build strategic relationships with senior stakeholders to achieve “trusted partner” status
  • Shape and influence client demand using outcome‑led, value‑based propositions
  • Develop and execute account‑based sales plans for key clients
  • Develop and execute a sector‑aligned sales strategy in collaboration with leadership
  • Identify whitespace opportunities and new routes to market
  • Contribute to the evolution of digital, data, and AI service propositions
  • Translate organisational strategy into actionable sales plans
  • Build, lead, coach, and performance‑manage a sales and business development team
  • Set clear targets, expectations, and success measures
  • Establish a strong sales culture grounded in accountability and collaboration
  • Provide mentoring on complex deal management and enterprise selling
  • Lead commercial and technical pre‑sales activities alongside delivery teams
  • Influence and contribute to RFP, RFI, and tender responses
  • Ensure proposals are compelling, accurately costed, and value‑driven
  • Support complex bid strategies, pricing models, and risk management
  • Work closely with delivery, technical, and practice leads to shape solutions
  • Act as a bridge between customers, sales, and delivery teams
  • Build trusted relationships internally and externally
  • Represent sales function at leadership level

Requirements

  • Proven track record in enterprise B2B sales or business development
  • Experience selling transformation, technology consultancy or managed services
  • Demonstrable success against individual and team sales targets
  • Strong commercial acumen with experience in complex deal structures
  • Experience selling into one or more of: Energy, Financial Services, Public Sector
  • Experience leading, coaching, or managing sales or pre‑sales teams
  • Confident communicator who can engage credibly at all organisational levels
  • Outcome‑led and customer‑centric
  • Strategic thinker with the ability to execute tactically
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguity and complex transformation environments
  • Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, and influencing skills

Benefits

  • Highly Competitive Salary & Incentive Plan
  • Personalised Career Development
  • Flexible working
  • A Fantastic Benefits Package: generous annual leave allowance, enhanced family friendly benefits, pension scheme, access to private health, well-being, and insurance schemes, employee assistance programme, discounted cash plan and more…
  • Dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace

Job title

Sales Lead

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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