u/airle88

Working at a large company and currently MD of one location, £8m turnover. I’ve been approached to move into a sales director role covering 8 locations, including the one I’m MD at now (8 locations are around (£40m). A small pay rise but not life changing.

I’ve never worked directly in sales before, but it’s a huge part of my role so I sort of have. My question is, does anyone have experience of moving from ops to sales? What did it do for your career long term? Ideally I’d see this as filling a gap and paving the way to a bigger role, such as VP.

The sales team needs help, there will be more pressure as I’m fairly comfortable in my current role. Is it worth it?

Can someone tell me how this works/looks? I think it would be a very nice thing for me to have, if it works smoothly. Any visuals would be great.

Thanks