Description
Location: Manchester
Opportunity:
This is an opportunity to join at an exciting stage in the strategic development of our client, who are seeking someone in their Senior Management Team. With a dynamic and hands-on approach, you will lead teams and drive improvements across critical areas, growing the commercial outputs of the business.
What You’ll Do:
As the Commercial Director, you will be responsible for the strategic direction and management of key commercial departments, including Sales, Marketing, Purchasing, and Product Management. You will play an integral role in developing and executing a comprehensive commercial strategy across the UK, EU, USA, and beyond. This position requires a commercially driven, energetic leader with the ability to inspire changes, deliver results, and foster collaboration across departments. You will be a key part of driving performance, operational excellence, and leading the charge towards business growth targets.
Key Responsibilities:
- Commercial Strategy: Develop and execute a comprehensive growth strategy across the UK, EU, USA, and global markets.
- Leadership: Lead and mentor Sales, Marketing, Customer Service Procurement ,and Product Management to achieve departmental and collective goals.
- Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure strategic alignment ,cohesive messaging ,and operational excellence.
- Performance Management: Set and monitor KPIs across departments ,ensuring a data-driven approach to success performance improvement.
- Strategy Communication: Effectively communicate business unit strategies to departments ,ensuring progress towards targets.
- Revenue Growth: Oversee marketing ,sales customer service teams to drive revenue ensuring strong collaboration with Procurement Product Management.
- Client Relationships: Manage develop key client relationships ensuring alignment of services with market demands.
- Compliance & Risk Management: Ensure compliance with UK international laws regulations oversee internal audits risk assessments.
- Business Decisions: Approve major business decisions including financial policies contracts resource allocation.
- Expansion: Identify pursue new business opportunities partnerships market expansions .
- Operational Excellence : Drive process improvements enhance operational efficiency customer satisfaction .
- Financial Oversight : Work alongside Financial Heads review budgets financial statements operational performance contributing company’s financial health .
- Public Engagement : Represent company key negotiations stakeholder meetings public engagements .
- Team Development : Foster effective communication collaborative relationships within across departments .
- Additional Duties : Undertake any other duties required by Chief Executive Officer .
Your Background:
- Bachelor’s degree in relevant discipline (Chemical Life Science Pharmaceutical or similar). A Master’s degree is preferred.
Professional qualifications/personal development in Sales Marketing Accounting Finance Business Administration or related fields are desired.
Proven experience in senior leadership role within chemical or related industries .
Multiple years chemical sales management .
Strong commercial acumen proven ability drive revenue growth profitability .
High level technical knowledge scientific IT disciplines .
Enthusiastic ability bring energy fun hard work into workplace .
Excellent mentoring coaching skills experience training development .
Strong communication client-facing skills ability influence stakeholders all levels .
Ability manage lead diverse teams including managing sales budgets £15–20m .
Experience managing multiple departments deep understanding marketing practices product launches .
Strong strategic thinker experience identifying new market opportunities business expansion .
Proven track record financial management including P&L analysis forecasting budgeting internal controls.
Strong leadership performance management skills experience handling difficult conversations.
Ability work flexibly demonstrate hands-on approach management .
Desirable:
Past experience turning around on business challenges from negative positive
Experience high-throughput time sensitive sales environments
Continuous Improvement
International market experience
Proficiency industry standards compliance regulatory requirements.
What is on offer?
Competitive salary benefits package including bonus scheme.
A clear pathway progression into Chief Commercial Officer role for high performers.
An exciting opportunity influence strategic growth dynamic environment.
The chance lead talented team contribute significantly company’s future success.
On this occasion LiCa Scientific is acting as an employment agency.