Senior Group Director – Marketing, Sales

Role Overview

• Hold enterprise‑level responsibility for defining, leading, and delivering AVASK’s global marketing and sales strategy across all jurisdictions.
• Shape AVASK’s go‑to‑market framework, commercial pipeline, brand strategy, and customer value proposition.
• Lead high‑performing marketing, sales, and business development teams.
• Provide strategic leadership across sales and business development functions, ensuring robust pipeline management and achievement of revenue targets.
• Influence at Board and C‑suite level, bringing strategic vision and technology‑led innovation to the organisation’s growth agenda.
• Shape, protect, and evolve AVASK’s corporate brand and value proposition.
• Oversee investment across marketing and sales activities, ensuring campaigns deliver clear, measurable returns.
• Foster strong collaboration across marketing, sales, operations, and service delivery.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Marketing, Business, or a related discipline, or equivalent senior‑level commercial experience.
• Extensive senior leadership experience at Director or Group Director level, with responsibility for integrated marketing, sales, and commercial strategy.
• Background in technology, with proven experience applying digital and tech‑enabled solutions to transform marketing, sales, or client‑facing services.
• Essential experience within the services industry (e‑commerce, consultancy, professional services, technology‑enabled services), with strong understanding of service‑based commercial models and enterprise customer cycles.
• Demonstrable track record of driving measurable business outcomes through strategic leadership of go‑to‑market activity, demand generation, pipeline growth, and conversion.
• Extensive experience leading, mentoring, and developing senior sales and marketing leaders and teams, fostering high performance, accountability, and succession planning.
• Strong commercial and client orientation, with the credibility and confidence to influence, negotiate, and build long‑term relationships with senior internal stakeholders, Board members, and C‑suite clients.
• Highly accomplished in developing and delivering executive‑level presentations, commercial propositions, and value narratives that address complex client and business challenges.
• Expertise in defining and governing integrated sales and marketing plans, including ownership of strategy, revenue targets, budgets, forecasting, and performance metrics.
• Proven ability to leverage brand strategy, communications, media, and thought leadership to support sales objectives, pipeline development, and corporate reputation.
• Sound commercial judgement, with the ability to make high‑impact decisions under pressure, balancing risk, opportunity, and long‑term value creation.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to form clear, evidence‑based points of view on complex issues and translate them into decisive, actionable leadership.
• Comfortable operating in fast‑paced, growth‑oriented environments, maintaining strategic oversight while ensuring disciplined execution and operational excellence.
• Sector experience within e‑commerce, and professional services, with a strong understanding of market dynamics, customer behaviour, and enterprise sales cycles.
• Ability to exercise sound judgment under pressure and within tight timeframes, balancing risk and opportunity.
• Communications experience within sectors such as Internet, technology, retail, and/or transportation, with a strong understanding of market dynamics and trends.

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Annual leave purchase scheme (up to 5 days per year).
• Company Pension scheme (Royal London).
• Cycle2Work Scheme.
• Private Healthcare Insurance (Vitality).
• Flexible working.
• Regular departmental socials, company wide.