AVASK

Senior Group Director – Marketing, Sales

AVASK

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Southampton • United Kingdom

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • 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.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
digital solutionsgo-to-market strategydemand generationpipeline growthrevenue targetsbudgetingforecastingperformance metricsbrand strategycommercial propositions
Soft Skills
strategic leadershipmentoringhigh performanceaccountabilityinfluencenegotiationrelationship buildingexecutive-level presentationssound judgmentstrategic thinking
Certifications
Master’s degree in MarketingMaster’s degree in Business