Sales Director - Konges Sløjd

SALES DIRECTOR FOR A HIGH GROWTH INTERNATIONAL DESIGN BRAND

Do want to push Konges Sløjd to become a leading anchor brand with all the right retailers across the world?

ABOUT KONGES SLØJD

Konges Sløjd is a creative brand that salutes the wild, varied and perfectly imperfect life with children. our aim is to make thoughtful and quality conscious designs using our unique signature prints and color palette, whilst dropping in an imaginative humorous aesthetics, the pace in our company is high and the vibe is super positive. we love colleagues who have attitudes, initiative, and a little bit of unpredictability.

Konges Sløjd is also an entrepreneurial success story that started seven years ago in a basement in Copenhagen, and which is now in 85 markets with +1.200 retailers and continues to realize triple-digit annual revenue growth. You will find yourself sitting in the engine room of a rocket ready to launch!

Nothing is, nor will, ever be perfect and life is often chaotic. but what a wonderful chaos it is!

THE POSITION

As Sales Director it is your job to define the overall B2B sales strategy in collaboration with the CCO. You’ll also be the maestro behind the day-to-day executional playbook for the sales team. Last but not least, you will identify and prioritize the main challenges that need to be fixed in order for the team to realize their full potential. You are backed up with support from Marketing, Operations, BI analysts, and Finance to help you and the team reach their goals. Your great passion and energy will help be key in pushing the team to realize their potential and goals.

Konges Sløjd is a global brand, adored by customers across more than 65 markets. Your responsibility will be global, with a strong focus on a mature European market, and an emerging business in both Asia and the US.

Today the B2B sales team consists of 8 Sales Executives, 2 Customer Service Specialists, and 1 Key Account Coordinator. The team will expand to approx. 15 FTEs within the next 12 months.

The Sales Director is a part of the Commercial Management Team in Commercial which reports to the CCO. The team consists of 3 colleagues: a Commercial Operations Manager, an E-com Director, and the Sales Director.

THE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Define and execute the sales strategy
• Business development on existing and new accounts, products, markets, and geographical areas
• Organize all sales and marketing activities
• Set goals and KPI’s for the team and follow up
• Leading and developing the team

THE RIGHT CANDIDATE

• Structured and able to maintain a cool head in hectic times – helping the team prioritize
• Experience with writing the playbook for a B2B sales team
• Hands-on experience with going from start-up to scale-up business; alternatively, having been part of a well-executed turn-around
• People management experience – you’ll have a lot of stakeholders
• English is a must and Danish is an advantage

YOUR APPLICATOIN

All CVs and applications submitted must be written in English. Candidates will be reviewed on a rolling basis so please apply as soon as possible.

UnikRecruitment is assisting Konges Sløjd with this process. For further information about this vacancy, please contact Michael Kjærgaard at UnikRecruitment by phone +45 2222 4000 or e-mail [email protected] No knowledge of the candidate’s identity will be given to Konges Sløjd without his or her prior acceptance.