Lead Industry Manager, Smb

Pinterest Pinterest · Consumer · Sao Paulo, Brazil · SMB Sales

Lead Industry Manager for Pinterest's SMB team in LATAM, focusing on driving revenue growth for agencies on the platform. This role involves managing vendor operations, implementing sales strategies, forecasting, and collaborating with internal and external stakeholders.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manage the day-to-day vendor operations for a scaled Agency segment to drive revenue growth of LATAM SMB on the Pinterest platform. This includes developing/standardizing operational systems to allow sellers to operate at a high level of productivity, standardizing pitches, upsells, and optimisations to ensure our sellers offer a world class sales motion against a large portfolio of advertisers.
  2. Implement the vision, sales strategy, and processes for the function segment, including goals and plans, revenue forecasting and quota setting, and reporting. Analyze business trends, market trends, customer needs, and competitive landscape, to identify growth opportunities and risks to the segment.
  3. Core to the role is working alongside vendor function leaders and cross functional teams to implement scaled growth strategies to drive the business and accountability, monitoring metrics and milestones against established revenue targets, KPIs, and quarterly OKRs.
  4. Collaborate with various internal teams and stakeholders across the organization, including other internal sales leaders e.g. new business, high value account management and cross functional partners such as Sales Ops, Performance Solutions, Quality Assurance and Learning & Development to align resources, priorities, initiatives and remove barriers to deliver on client expectations.
  5. Collaborate with external Independent agencies to build relationships, nurture revenue growth and drive agency deals.

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years professional experience in digital media sales, online advertising, or sales leadership.
  • Experience working with Independent Agencies across LATAM.
  • A data-driven leader with the ability to lead large teams against aggressive revenue goals.
  • Ability to extract insights from data to inform strategic decisions.
  • Experience creating a driving sales motions/programs in a scaled sales organization.
  • Fluent in Portuguese and English

Nice to have

  • 3+ years of sales leadership experience preferred.
  • Spanish language skills are a plus.

What the JD emphasized

  • revenue quotas
  • revenue growth
  • revenue targets