Sales Team Leader

Sales Team Leader

Rocksteady Music School is the UK's largest rock and pop school. We teach fun and inclusive in-school band lessons to primary age children. Our mission is simple: to amplify children's self-belief and remove barriers to music education. We're currently in thousands of schools in the UK, teaching nearly 100,000 children every week – and we're growing fast.

We have recently opened our second office in the UK, based in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter. This distinctive, lively setting suits us perfectly and we're on the lookout for great people to join our new team here. We all play our part in supporting our band leaders to reach as many children as possible with their lessons. We are a community of music lovers using our individual talents to help give children the self-belief to succeed. That's what gets us out of bed in the morning.

We are seeking a positive, confident Sales Team Leader to support our Sales Manager in leading a growing Sales Team. This role requires coaching, training, and process improvement to achieve KPIs and personal sales targets.

The ideal candidate is self-motivated with an enthusiastic attitude, leads by example with strong accountability. Focuses on driving results through continuous improvement, and fosters a supportive, engaging, and motivational team environment.

This is a great opportunity for someone with sales experience ready to step into management and help drive team success in an empowering workplace.

As a Sales Team Leader – you will provide:

• Team support and guidance: Assist the Sales Manager by leading a small team of Sales representatives, providing daily guidance, support and training.
• High achiever: Achieve your personal sales target set alongside the management of the individuals in the team and their own targets.
• Sales culture: Confident and lead by example, maintaining personal standards towards your own work and target. Create a high-energy, professional sales culture that motivates and engages the team.
• Motivation and coaching: Inspire and motivate team members, encouraging a positive work environment and helping individuals reach their full potential.
• Sales tracking and reporting: Monitor individual and team sales performance, prepare reports and identify areas for improvement.
• Sales strategy execution: Collaborate with the Sales Manager to implement sales strategies and hit termly targets.
• Consistent training and development: Assist in onboarding new team members and providing ongoing training to ensure the team stays knowledgeable about the world of primary schools.
• Process improvement: Identify opportunities for improvement in sales processes and collaborate with the team to implement changes.
• Accountability: Set weekly objectives around performance and behaviour for your team, ensuring high levels of personal accountability. Manage your own target and schools alongside this, holding yourself to the same high standards set for your team.

As a Sales Team Leader you'll need:

• Proven successful experience in a sales role or similar.
• Strong leadership and motivational skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Highly organised, with excellent time management.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office.
• Resilient, hard working and self-motivated.
• Adaptability in a demanding sales environment.
• Strong leadership and coaching abilities.
• Strong emotional intelligence as well as self-awareness.

We appreciate that previous experience does not always tell the full story so if you like the sound of this role, don't rule yourself out if you feel you don't tick all the boxes.

Benefits

• £32k + £8k OTE
• 35 hours working week
• 28 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Free onsite parking
• Personal development opportunities
• Comprehensive benefits package including discounts on everyday purchases, free 24/7 GP service.
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay.
• Employee discount at nationwide music instrument retailers.
• Celebratory staff away-days, Christmas parties and social events.
• Opportunities to work with the Rocksteady Foundation, reaching children and young people in charities and support groups across the UK.

Every once in a while, you get the chance to be part of something really special. When you join Rocksteady, you know immediately that you've found it. We might be growing fast but we pay special attention to protecting our unique working culture and ensuring everyone feels comfortable to be themselves at work. We look out for each other, welcome new colleagues as friends and stay true to our small-company roots; rolling up our sleeves if a job needs doing, solving problems together and, most importantly, always putting the children first. Likeminded people are joining us and we're reaching more and more children with our lessons every week. We keep growing because we're driven by our passion for the life-changing nature of music.

Join us and use your skills for good.

Your Passion. Their Future.