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Sales Director – UK (Capital Markets / Post-Trade Technology)

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Experience selling enterprise software into UK financial institutions
  • Strong network across investment banks, brokers, or capital markets organizations
  • Proven success winning new enterprise clients
  • Experience managing long enterprise sales cycles and high-value contracts

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute a UK new business sales strategy
  • Identify, develop, and close new enterprise opportunities within investment banks, brokers, and capital markets institutions
  • Build relationships with senior business stakeholders across the UK financial services sector
  • Lead complex enterprise sales cycles from prospecting through contract negotiation and close

About the company

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SPERTON - Where Great People Meet

Staffing & Recruiting

SPERTON is a full-range provider of Global Recruitment, People Management, Global Mobility and Business support services within focused industry sectors. Our head office is located in Norway. We have over 20 years’ of experience supporting clients within the Human Resources area. We can support you globally through our own companies and partners in more than 140 countries. Sperton had been specializing in the supply of the very best freelance and permanent white-collar professionals working with projects. We provide consultant and recruitment services to companies of all types and sizes, including consultancies, contractors, sub-contractors, developers and end clients operating across a wide range of projects and environments. Now our services also include People Management, Global Mobility and Business Support Services. Legal entity set-up, payroll services, HR administration, compliance, and insurance provision, cultural awareness training, and mobility support – everything needed to work compliantly with local legislation and regulations in different countries. With over 20 years of global experience within project execution, we understand your challenges and know how to support you from the start to the end of the project.

Company details

Company typeSME
IndustryStaffing & Recruiting
Company size51 - 200

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Job description

Location: Greater London, United Kingdom (Remote with travel as required)

About the Role

We are partnering with a leading provider of mission-critical capital markets technology to recruit an experienced Sales Director to drive new business growth across the UK.

This is an opportunity to join a growing organization with an established global client base and significantly less bureaucracy than larger competitors, allowing deals to move quickly and efficiently.

This role is ideal for someone with an established network across UK financial institutions and a successful track record selling complex post-trade or capital markets technology solutions.

What You'll Do

  • Develop and execute a UK new business sales strategy.

  • Identify, develop, and close new enterprise opportunities within investment banks, brokers, and capital markets institutions.

  • Build relationships with senior business stakeholders across the UK financial services sector.

  • Lead complex enterprise sales cycles from prospecting through contract negotiation and close.

  • Work closely with product, pre-sales, and marketing teams to deliver successful customer engagements.

  • Represent the business at industry events and networking opportunities.

What We're Looking For

Essential

  • Experience selling enterprise software into UK financial institutions.

  • Strong network across investment banks, brokers, or capital markets organizations.

  • Proven success winning new enterprise clients.

  • Experience selling complex post-trade, clearing, settlement, securities processing, trade processing, or capital markets infrastructure solutions.

  • Experience managing long enterprise sales cycles and high-value contracts.

  • Based in or around Greater London with the right to work in the UK.

Highly Desirable

Experience with solutions such as:

  • Post-Trade Platforms

  • Clearing & Settlement

  • Securities Processing

  • Capital Markets Infrastructure

  • Order Management Systems (OMS)

  • Execution Management Systems (EMS)

  • Regulatory Technology (RegTech)

  • Risk Management Platforms

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