Manager, Business Development

Braze Braze · Enterprise · Sydney, Australia · Sales

This is a Business Development Manager role focused on outbound pipeline growth for the Commercial & Enterprise BDR Team in ANZ. The role involves managing and coaching a team of BDRs, developing strategies for pipeline generation, delivering training, monitoring performance, and collaborating with sales and marketing leaders. It requires strong leadership, communication, and sales experience, with a focus on meeting pipeline generation quotas.

What you'd actually do

  1. The BDM will be based in Sydney, leading the new business BDR function for ANZ.
  2. Oversee, coach and QC daily activities and quota performance management of individual BDRs to ensure key performance metrics are met
  3. Hire and efficiently ramp new BDRs with training, including product knowledge, buyer personas, competition, tools training, and plenty of role-plays
  4. Provide BDRs with a coaching cadence of time management, objection handling, prospecting tactics, and active listening skills
  5. Strategize with sales and marketing counterparts on pipeline and prospecting initiatives to meet company objectives

Skills

Required

  • 4+ years of B2B sales experience
  • at least 2+ year in a leadership capacity (Team Lead or Manager)
  • Proven success in an outbound sales environment, with consistent quota achievement
  • Experience managing or mentoring BDRs or SDRs
  • Familiar with Salesforce and modern prospecting tools (e.g. Outreach, SalesNav, Gong, 6sense, Lusha)
  • Excellent communicator, clear, concise, and persuasive
  • Organized, data-driven and detail-oriented with strong ownership mindset
  • Strong team builder and coach, with the ability to motivate and grow a team
  • Comfortable working in a hybrid regional structure, managing both up and across the organization
  • verbal and written Japanese
  • verbal and written English

Nice to have

  • high standards
  • championing teamwork
  • work-life harmony
  • equity and opportunity
  • autonomy
  • accountability
  • open to new perspectives
  • curiosity to learn
  • eagerness to share diverse passions
  • bias toward action in the face of change
  • proactive
  • take control of your own sales success
  • energetic
  • fast paced
  • attention to detail
  • pace and energy
  • collaboration
  • communication
  • innovation
  • thought leadership

What the JD emphasized

  • managing and coaching our highly ambitious Commercial & Enterprise BDR Team of 4
  • strong self-direction, leadership maturity, and excellent communication skills across cultures and time zones
  • strong hands-on experience in working day-to-day with the team in delivering
  • Meeting monthly, quarterly and yearly pipeline generation quotas
  • BDRs at Braze don’t just hunt to deliver meetings, they are also responsible for actively selling to prospects and qualifying opportunities against qualification criteria.
  • Delivering a day-to-day structure and accountability, coaching cadences and value selling methodology is core to the role.
  • Proactively and real-time performance manage BDRs
  • Deliver the above in a high standard of verbal and written Japanese
  • Manage upwards and cross-functionally with a good standard of verbal and written English
  • Ultimate success for a Business Development Manager is to enable their team to generate the volume and value of deals required to meet or exceed their quota
  • Business Development Managers are measured on results in 3 key areas: attainment against quota (including performance management of BDR quotas), operational excellence (reporting, forecasting, process, headcount planning) and personal brand (collaboration, innovation, thought leadership.)