Head of Sales & Marketing

Head of Sales & Marketing - Premium Retail & E-Commerce Sales

Powys-Shropshire border

c.£70 - £80k + Bonus

Business Introduction:

Seymour John have been retained as Executive Search partners by Stashed Products Ltd to secure a Head of Sales & Marketing. Stashed Products is a business on a mission to become the Worlds’ number 1 bike storage company. Currently turning over £2m after just 3 years of trade, 2024 has seen Stashed transform from a great idea with genius innovation to a legitimate Award-Winning business that are growing at an astonishing rate through organic sales alone. Stashed Products, founded by Elliot Tanner, an R&D Engineering Expert and cycling enthusiast, developed a multi-million turnover business from his own home during the pandemic. Since its’ inception, Stashed have outgrown 2 sites and rapidly grown their headcount to meet mounting demand.

Stashed Products hold the winning formula for an exceptionally exciting journey to be a part of. As the Head of Sales & Marketing, you will play a pivotal role within the business, providing your expert knowledge to drive multi-channel sales and marketing strategies, including entering the Global retail and distribution networks in parallel with growing Direct to Consumer sales through E-commerce and digital marketing.

Stashed have already proven Global commercial success and have won the hearts and minds of some of the UK’s most notable and high-profile Entrepreneurs - but they are only just scratching the surface. The agenda for 2025 is to scale, strategise and provide a beautiful and practical solution designed to enhance the lives of cycling enthusiasts worldwide.

The Opportunity:

Reporting into the Founder / Managing Director you will lead the Sales, Marketing, E-Commerce, and Customer Services team. We hope you can motivate and develop this team to target and achieve even greater success.

• Team leadership and motivation: Lead, manage and motivate the Team to achieve the best results possible.
• Creating the Sales Strategy: What priorities should the business focus on in terms of markets and customers and what resources should be deployed. Forecast and budget
• Implementing Sales Growth: winning, negotiating and managing good business with Retailers, whilst continuing to drive E-Commerce business which generates £2m annually.
• Account management: Take a personal interest in growing existing customer account spend and developing a network of commercial customers.
• Develop marketing strategies: Todeliver scalable growth through both E-commence, digital paid ads, social media and retail
• End to end communication and problem solving throughout the business to align strategy, operations and minds with Stashed ’s approach and promise to servicing customers and sales ambitions.
• Senior Leadership Team member and Colleague: We are looking for a genuine team player and Co-Leader to support, advise, solve problems, and create and drive strategy together.

Who are we looking for?

A proven, highly successful Head of Sales & Marketing, ideally on a Global scale who understands the culture and resources of a start-up business.

An excellent track record in inspiring, coaching, mentoring, and managing teams to achieve greater success together.

Considerable experience in at least one of the sales channels of E-Commerce or Direct-to-Retail.

A provable record in driving substantial sales growth and overcoming the challenges presented along the way, working cohesively across the whole business.

We are looking for a long-term appointment so evidencing your perseverance and loyalty when in the right environment is important.

Use to high growth and start-up mentality. Happy to get hands dirty and lead from the front to prove strategies. Someone who doesn’t shy way from responsibility and thrives on challenge.

Unrelenting energy and enthusiasm

Wants to be part of something - see tangible growth from their actions

A European language skill, particularly German or French would be a benefit but not essential.

You will need to be happy providing access to credible referees in due course, who can support the track record and qualities requested above.

To apply please contact Lydia Johnson, at Seymour John Recruitment Limited