Chief Revenue Officer (Sales + Account Management)

Chief Revenue Officer (Sales + Account Management)

Chief Revenue Officer (Sales + Account Management)

Sampl Technologies

Brighton, England, United Kingdom

3 hours ago

No application

About

  • Full-time, permanent | Monday–Friday
  • Brighton (Hybrid or Remote)
  • Reports to: CEO
  • Salary: Competitive (+ bonus, share options & benefits)
  • About Sampl
  • Sampl is on a mission to digitise the product sampling industry, helping the world’s leading FMCG, beauty and consumer brands run high-performance product trials through targeted in-home sampling and cashback campaigns. Trusted by 250+ global brands across 35 countries - including Estée Lauder, Colgate-Palmolive, Mondelez, Mars and Kao - our platform delivers precise targeting, measurable outcomes and clear insight into how sampling drives customer behaviour, from real-time data and reviews to in-store sales attribution. Operating across the UK, Europe and the US, and powered by award-winning technology including SamplPay, our cashback engine, we’re one of the fastest-growing companies in the UK and are scaling into new markets, categories and retail partnerships as we enter our next phase of global growth.
  • The Role
  • This is a senior commercial leadership role with full ownership of Sales and Account Management, responsible for revenue growth across the UK, EU and US.
  • You’ll lead, coach and scale a growing commercial team, owning GTM structure, pricing, forecasting and expansion strategy. This is not a pure closing role - success comes from building a high-performing, repeatable revenue engine, not being the top seller.
  • You’ll step into deals where it matters (enterprise pricing, RFPs, complex negotiations) and play a key role in international expansion and long-term commercial planning.
  • About You
  • We’re looking for an experienced, growth-oriented commercial leader who thrives in a fast-moving, non-corporate environment.

You are

  • Team-first and coaching-led, you develop people, not just pipelines
  • Commercially sharp with strong consultative selling instincts
  • Comfortable with complexity, enterprise deals, pricing, RFPs, long cycles
  • Clear, confident and collaborative in how you communicate
  • Hands-on when needed, but focused on scale and structure
  • Pragmatic and positive, with no time for corporate theatre
  • Key Responsibilities:Revenue & Growth
  • Own Sampl’s revenue performance and commercial targets
  • Balance new logo acquisition with expansion across existing accounts
  • Build predictable pipeline generation, qualification and forecasting
  • Increase enterprise-level AM maturity and multi-market relationships
  • Leadership & Team Development
  • Lead Sales, Account Management, RevOps and Lead Gen functions
  • Deliver structured coaching via regular 1:1s and team sessions
  • Raise standards across discovery, consultative selling and AM
  • Create a supportive, accountable, high-performance culture
  • Commercial Operations
  • Own pricing, proposals and RFPs, reducing reliance on the CEO
  • Drive adoption of Gong, MEDDPICC and forecasting disciplines
  • Maintain strong Salesforce hygiene and workflows
  • Turn Lead Gen into a high-output, sales-led function
  • GTM & Expansion
  • Lead EU and US go-to-market strategy
  • Shape ICPs, category positioning and commercial playbooks
  • Support multilingual hiring (German, French, Spanish)
  • Advise on scalable commercial org design
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Partner with Marketing on messaging, case studies and pitches
  • Influence Product with client insight and commercial intelligence
  • Experience & SkillsEssential
  • 10-15 years in senior B2B Sales / AM leadership roles
  • Experience selling into FMCG, CPG, D2C, Beauty, Pet, Health or MarTech
  • Strong background in tech startups and scaleups
  • Experience leading teams of 6–15+ in high-growth environments
  • Strong experience with RFPs, pricing and complex deal cycles
  • Familiar with Salesforce, Gong (or similar), MEDDICC/MEDDPICC
  • Desirable
  • Experience scaling revenue in the EU and/or US
  • Background in sampling, retail media or data-led marketing
  • German, French or Spanish (or experience hiring multilingual teams)
  • Why You Should Join
  • You will have the opportunity to join Sampl Technologies at a pivotal moment and have true impact on our growth.
  • Own international expansion, including the US
  • Shape product packaging, pricing and GTM strategy
  • Build the leadership layer beneath you
  • Have board-level influence
  • Receive meaningful equity aligned to long-term value creation

This is one of the rare opportunities where

  • The product already wins
  • The business is profitable
  • The market is expanding
  • The founder wants to reduce dependency on themselves
  • The next phase of growth genuinely depends on you
  • You will be joining a genuine tech scale-up at a pivotal inflection point, not a corporate environment.
  • Competitive base salary + bonus tied to growth targets
  • EMI share options
  • Flexible hybrid working (2+ days/week in Brighton)
  • Pension scheme
  • Private healthcare & wellbeing package
  • Generous holiday allowance, including year-end shutdown
  • Regular team socials and supportive, high-energy culture
  • Sampl encourages applications from candidates from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds.