03/08/2026
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๐๐ผ๐ฏ ๐ง๐ถ๐๐น๐ฒ: Group Sales Director
๐๐ผ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป: Nationwide with regular travel in East Anglia, London and the Midlands
๐ฅ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐: Competitive Package
๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฑ๐๐น๐ฒ: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday (additional hours as required by the business)
๐๐ผ๐ป๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ ๐ง๐๐ฝ๐ฒ: Full time, Permanent
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐บ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ป๐:
Lunchtime Co. is a successful and respected regional company providing over five million school lunches to children in schools across Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and London. We are passionate about our people and believe in a collaborative approach to businesses, whilst rewarding our teams and ensuring our customers are at the heart of what we do. We believe in internal progression to enable our staff to grow and flourish.
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ฏ:
Lunchtime Co Ltd. has recently acquired Educaterers Ltd, bringing together two successful organisations with longโstanding reputations in the school catering sector for quality, expertise and service excellence. United by a shared commitment to providing highโquality, nutritious and healthy food alongside reliable catering services for schools and colleges, the group is now strongly positioned for its next phase of growth.
With a flexible, evolving service offering and a strong platform for growth, we are looking for an experienced sales leader who can drive momentum, open new doors, and significantly increase our services across the East of England, South of England and the Midlands.
This is far from a maintenance role, itโs a growthโfocused opportunity for someone who can shape their own success, think creatively, push boundaries and build strong commercial partnerships that elevate the groupโs impact across the sector.
As Director of Sales, you'll set and deliver the commercial strategy, lead and develop the sales team and drive significant profitable year-on-year growth. Youโll manage the national sales pipeline, lead on bids, optimise pricing and ensure excellent customer retention You will also support and lead with your team on competitive retenders.
In this role, you will enjoy the unique opportunity to shape the culture and success of your team and contribute at a senior leadership level, to the strategy of the business. You will also have the opportunity to lead the sales strategy for two unique and successful brands both within the Education catering sector across three large regions of England.
๐ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ฝ๐ผ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ฏ๐ถ๐น๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐:
Develop a Sales organisation that delivers for both businesses whilst maximising the benefits of an integrated approach.
Spending time in the field generating and managing leads through consultants, frameworks, networking, outreach and referral opportunities.
Build and maintain outstanding consultant relationships
Building relationships with prospective partners, presenting opportunities, negotiating agreements and converting conversations into signed contracts.
Financial modelling, ensuring bids and tenders remain competitive but realistic for each business to achieve using benchmarking of other recent new openings
Monitoring market trends and competitor activity to identify growth opportunities
Lead, coach and develop a nationwide sales team.
Drive new business and maximise opportunities and retention within existing accounts.
Lead on bids and relevant sales cycles.
Ensure accurate forecasting and strong sales pipeline management.
Collaborate with Marketing on product promotion.
Oversee contract compliance and pricing strategy.
Drive improvements in customer satisfaction (including NPS).
Be responsible for the signing off all sales tenders including the written submission and financial submission
Be responsible for ensuring the team oversee and manage all sale opportunities that come from portals
Managing and leading the sales teams within both businesses
๐ช๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ฌ๐ผ๐'๐น๐น ๐ก๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐ผ ๐ฆ๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฑ:
โข A minimum of 3 years sales experience at a strategic Director level, developing high performance sales teams preferably in the school catering industry
โข A proven track record of successfully delivering profitable sales growth in excess of ยฃ10m per year
โข Strong commercial, negotiation and pricing skills.
โข Confident leading major bids and strategic opportunities with a strong background in producing compelling sales documentation and delivering executive-level presentations
โข Excellent relationship-building skills at senior level.
โข Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
โข Motivational, collaborative, and committed to delivering results.
โข A minimum of 3-year experience in successfully managing a team of Business Development Managers (Sales Managers).
โข Proven track record in holding and developing strong consultant relationships
โข Proven track record in team management and leadership whilst remaining โhands onโ
In return for your commitment and expertise, you will receive:
โข Company pension
โข Competitive salary/package
โข A competitive base salary plus attractive bonus and commission
โข Phone, laptop and kit to work effectively from home and on the road
โข Company car or car allowance
โข Life assurance and EAP scheme
โข Enhanced annual leave with 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
โข Employee wellbeing programme
โข Growing, welcoming, friendly but professional company to work for where you can make a real difference and be truly valued
๐๐ผ๐ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ฝ๐ฝ๐น๐:
Send a copy of your CV to [email protected] clearly stating the job title and location of the job that you wish to apply for.
There are no deadlines for applications but they will be reviewed and applicants will be shortlisted and interviewed regularly so please submit your application as soon as possible in order to have the best chance of being considered.
๐๐น๐ถ๐ด๐ถ๐ฏ๐ถ๐น๐ถ๐๐:
In line with the requirements of the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996, all applicants must either be eligible to live and work in the UK or must obtain permits to work in the UK prior to application. Documented evidence of eligibility will be required from candidates as part of the recruitment process. All successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced DBS with child barred list check. You will also be required to provide two satisfactory references.
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