Imagine yourself…
Owning your ambition and fueling your career growth.
Joining a company with a proven track record of success and an exciting future.
Contributing to a brighter, more sustainable future.
It’s possible with a role at Ott, where you’ll have the chance to shape the future of your career—and the future of our planet.
At Ott, a Veralto company, you’ll help protect the world’s water resources with trusted, decision-ready intelligence. Join a team delivering decision-ready intelligence that helps customers manage water with clarity and confidence—from one site to global networks.
As part of Ott and the broader Veralto network, you’ll do work that matters—helping deliver solutions with real-world impact while building your skills and growing your career.
We offer:
Flexible working hours
Professional onboarding and training options
Powerful team looking forward to working with you
Career coaching and development opportunities
Reporting to the Senior Director, Sales, the UK Sales Manager will lead commercial growth, customer retention, and sales team development across the UK. This role is responsible for driving commercial strategy, expanding market presence, and capturing growth opportunities within environmental monitoring, water quality, and AMP8-related programmes.
This position is part of the Commercial Organization located in the United Kingdom and will be remote. The successful candidate is expected to spend regular time with customers across the UK and periodically visit the Redditch office to support sales leadership activities and team development. Travel time: at least 50%
In this role, a typical day will look like:
Lead and develop the UK commercial organisation while driving accountability, coaching, and performance management
Develop and execute commercial growth strategies that support double-digit business growth and increased market penetration across the UK.
Build and maintain executive-level relationships with water utilities, engineering consultancies, contractors, and environmental stakeholders.
Manage sales forecasting, CRM compliance, pipeline health, funnel reviews, and commercial reporting to ensure consistent business performance.
Partner with service, operations, technical support, and marketing teams to successfully deliver strategic customer projects and large-scale monitoring programmes.
Lead major commercial negotiations, strategic account planning, and complex business opportunities within the UK water sector.
Identify and convert new business opportunities arising from AMP8 investment, Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) monitoring, Section 82 requirements, and broader environmental monitoring initiatives.
The essential requirements of the job include:
Proven experience in B2B technical sales, commercial leadership, or business development roles.
Proven experience leading and developing commercial, sales, or account management teams.
Experience selling into the UK water industry, environmental monitoring, instrumentation, water quality, utilities, wastewater, or related industrial markets.
Demonstrated experience developing and executing commercial growth strategies and managing sales forecasts, pipelines, and CRM systems.
Experience leading complex sales opportunities involving multiple stakeholders, strategic accounts, or enterprise-level customers.
Experience operating within a large multinational organisation and navigating matrix business environments
Ott is proud to be part of the Water Quality segment of Veralto (NYSE: VLTO), a $5.5B global leader dedicated to ensuring access to clean water, safe food and medicine, and trusted essential goods. When you join Veralto’s vibrant global network of 17,000 associates, you join a unique culture and work environment where purpose meets possibility: where the work you do has an everyday impact on the resources and essentials we all rely on, and where you’ll have valuable opportunities to deepen your skillset, pursue your ambitions, and grow your career. Together, we’re Safeguarding the World’s Most Vital Resources™—and building rewarding careers along the way.
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