Supplies Sales Manager

Full time (35 hours pw) 

Our offer to you

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work, providing a supportive culture with opportunities to grow and develop your career, achieve a healthy work life balance and to be recognised for the great work you do. You will receive:

• Competitive salary and pension scheme
• 33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) - increasing to 38 days over 5 years
• Hybrid, Flexible working
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Health and Wellbeing portal – access to financial, health and wellbeing support and an Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounts – you will have access to Blue Light and NHS Discounts as well as discounts on mobile phones, gym membership, cinema tickets, restaurants, holidays and shopping

About Us

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of over 1,200 employees and over 29500 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through essential first aid services, training and campaigning.  As a charity with rich heritage and a long history of serving humanity, we are proud of our past and excited about creating a healthier, safer, more resilient future. 

St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, supporting and enabling them to access and receive physical and mental health first aid. We do this through developing and providing effective community response and outreach services (e.g. Ambulance response, Falls response and Night Time Economy) and using our longstanding expertise to empower people with vital clinical skills and the confidence to use them (e.g. our Volunteers and Community Advocates, NHS Cadets and Young Responders programmes). There is also a buoyant social enterprise network which delivers first aid training and supplies medical consumables to businesses and consumers.

Job Summary

The role holder will be responsible for leading the Supplies sales team to achieve the revenue targets and business growth through the long term and sustainable management of high value Supplies reseller domestic and large B2B customers. They will manage the new business acquisition process, internal and external stakeholder engagement and approval procedures for the content and sign off new business opportunities. They will plan and successfully roll out new products prioritising customers as required as these come to market

Required Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• Experience in building a result orientated culture and delivering against financial targets in a business-to-business environment
• Experience in leading, managing and developing and motivating a team
• Experience in working with internal and external stakeholders to develop individualised customer contact strategies, and propositions to grow revenue and margin
• Experience of working in a multi- channel and multi product operation

About the Role 

• Drive a high performing, results orientated culture in the Supplies Sales Team by motivating and managing performance to act as a cohesive engaged team, delivering KPIs and financial targets
• Lead the overall Supplies Sales activity for St John providing appropriate reports to key stakeholders and escalating any issues
• Contribute to and propose pricing strategies ensuring St John is in a strong commercial and competitive position and profit margin expectations are met
• Build strong relationships with partners, both internal and external, to support the achievement of revenue and margin targets and ensure we deliver for customers
• Attend customer meetings with Supplies Sales Team to provide support and coach/mentor them to achieve higher performance
• Analyse data to produce reports to inform business development strategies and approaches. Where required produce regular updates and reports to update the business

Please see the job description for more detail (this can be viewed on our website or once you click apply) 

To find out more about us visit www.sja.org.uk or follow us on our socials

If you are a current St John Ambulance employee, please apply here:  Click here

For all other candidates, or St John Ambulance volunteers wishing to apply please apply below

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive high volume of applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Please note: St John does not accept speculative CVs and will only review CVs sent in application for an advertised vacancy.

St John Ambulance are committed to increasing the diversity of our team and making sure we best reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.   At St John, everyone is valued and supported to thrive, we have several networks including Multi Culture, Disability and Accessibility, Pride, Family and Carers and Women’s groups.  We do not tolerate any form of discrimination and engender a sense of belonging for all, by creating an environment of mutual respect, where we value unique differences and demonstrate authentic allyship. We believe passionately in equality, diversity and inclusion.