Northern State Sales Manager

• Turn your passion for sport into a rewarding leadership opportunity
• Leverage your established relationships across sporting organisations
• Drive national growth with professional and community sporting bodies

If sport has always been more than just a job to you, this could be the opportunity you've been waiting for.

We've partnered with a well-established company seeking a commercially driven Sales Manager to lead sales growth and strengthen long-term partnerships across the sporting landscape.

Reporting directly to the CEO, you'll play a pivotal role in developing strategic sales initiatives, expanding market share and building meaningful relationships with sporting organisations across NSW and Queensland. This is a genuine opportunity to make a lasting impact on both professional and community sport while leading commercial growth for an organisation with an outstanding reputation.

The Opportunity

This is a hands-on sales leadership role suited to someone who thrives on building relationships, identifying new opportunities and creating long-term partnerships.

You'll work closely with internal teams across Product, Marketing and Customer Experience to deliver tailored solutions while driving sustainable revenue growth and exceptional customer outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute sales strategies aligned with business objectives.
• Identify, secure and grow new business opportunities across professional and community sport.
• Build and manage strategic relationships with sporting organisations and key stakeholders.
• Manage major customer accounts, commercial negotiations and contract renewals.
• Prepare accurate sales forecasts, pipeline reporting and strategic account plans.
• Collaborate across the business to deliver outstanding customer experiences.
• Provide market insights to support future product and service development.

About You

To be successful, you'll bring:

• Proven success in a senior sales or business development role.
• Existing relationships within Australian sporting organisations (essential).
• Experience within the sporting goods or sports industry.
• Strong commercial, negotiation and presentation skills.
• The ability to develop and execute strategic sales plans.
• Experience managing complex customer relationships.
• Excellent organisational skills and CRM proficiency.
• A genuine passion for sport and growing participation across Australia.

Experience with tenders, procurement processes and merchandising or e-commerce programs will be highly regarded.

Why Apply?

This is more than another sales role. It's an opportunity to combine your commercial expertise with your passion for sport, working alongside an organisation committed to building long-term partnerships and making a positive impact across Australian sport.

If you're well connected within the sporting industry and ready to take ownership of a national portfolio, we'd love to hear from you.