Kier Places Clients and Markets Director

We're looking for a Clients and Markets Director to join our Kier Places team with travel to offices as required and London, Foley Street.

Location: Nationwide with travel to offices as required and London, Foley Street
Hours: 37.5 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

This is an exciting opportunity to join Kier Places as we embark on an ambitious growth journey. As Clients and Markets Director, you'll be a strategic member of our Senior Leadership Team, shaping and delivering the commercial growth strategy that will enable us to significantly expand our business. You'll lead our sales, business development, bid, customer, market intelligence and marketing functions, driving sustainable revenue growth while strengthening customer relationships and enhancing our brand across the public and private sectors.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Clients and Markets Director, you'll be working within the Kier Places team, supporting them in achieving ambitious revenue growth and becoming the partner of choice across our sectors. Your day to day will include:

• Developing and delivering the work winning strategy and roadmap to achieve sustainable growth
• Building influential relationships with customers and key stakeholders to strengthen market position and unlock opportunities
• Leading the development of our market proposition and external profile to enhance brand recognition and credibility
• Creating a high-performing, customer-centric culture across sales, business development and work-winning functions
• Shaping business strategy using customer and market insight to inform investment priorities and growth opportunities

What are we looking for?

This role of Clients and Markets Director is great for you if:

• You have significant executive-level experience leading sales, marketing or business development functions, ideally within facilities management, construction, infrastructure or related sectors
• You have a proven track record of delivering substantial revenue growth in complex, multi-service organisations
• You bring demonstrable success in building customer-centric organisations and high-performing teams
• You have experience developing and repositioning brands within competitive markets
• You possess strong commercial, strategic and financial acumen with the ability to influence at senior levels

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.