Enter a pivotal executive role with full ownership of the global sales agenda for a specialist labelling hardware business at a key stage of growth. With direct influence over strategy and structure, you’ll shape the commercial future of the organisation while working closely with the CEO and board. The role offers the opportunity to build and lead a high-performing international sales organisation, drive innovation, and unlock new markets and revenue streams. In return, you’ll be rewarded with a competitive executive package, long-term incentive opportunity, and the platform to leave a lasting legacy in a customer-critical industry.

Chief Sales Officer | Labelling Hardware | Europe & UK | £ to attract the best

A global industrial powerhouse with a strong entrepreneurial DNA and a track record of long-term value creation. With a diverse portfolio of specialist manufacturing and technology businesses operating worldwide, they combine the agility of owner-led companies with the strength and stability of a highly capitalised industrial group. The company actively backs innovation, international expansion, and operational excellence, creating an environment where ambitious leaders can shape strategy, drive growth, and build lasting impact within their businesses.

You will be responsible for:

• Defining and driving a unified group sales strategy that aligns multiple legal entities, brands, and sales organisations to an overarching group strategy while respecting local market needs

• Co-ordinating and standardising sales approaches across the group, clarifying customer ownership, division responsibilities, and routes to market

• Developing a deep understanding of the labelling hardware and solution portfolio, working closely with product management and key brand customers to articulate clear value propositions and enable direct teams to sell integrated solutions effectively

• Leading the long-term transition to a functional group sales structure, establishing a central group sales organisation over a 3-5 year period

• Engaging and influencing buy-in from existing sales teams across operating companies through regular site visits and remote working, improving sales effectiveness while building the foundations for a future group sales function

Key attributes required:

• Proven hands-on sales leadership experience, with the credibility to engage directly with customers and translate practical sales execution into scalable group-level approaches

• Strong strategic capability to design and implement sales divisions, structures, and governance across multiple operating companies

• Entrepreneurial mindset with the ambition to take a next career step into a larger-scale organisation

• Ability to influence and align diverse stakeholders across independent businesses

• Commercially astute and growth-oriented, with the ability to connect long-term group strategy with day-to-day sales realities and build the foundations for a high-impact sales function at scale over time

This role offers a rare opportunity to shape and lead a group wide sales function at scale. Candidates with the ambition, credibility, and entrepreneurial drive to take this next step are encouraged to engage in a confidential discussion.