Manager, Sales Development

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · Toronto, ON

Salesforce is seeking a Manager, Sales Development to lead a team of Business Development Representatives (BDRs) focused on outbound prospecting and generating qualified pipeline. This role involves hiring, coaching, and developing BDRs, driving outbound prospecting strategy, optimizing processes, managing pipeline and forecast, and collaborating cross-functionally. The ideal candidate has 3+ years of sales leadership experience, a proven track record of delivering pipeline and revenue goals, and a passion for coaching talent. While the company heavily emphasizes AI in its product and operations, this specific role is in sales management and does not involve building or directly working with AI/ML models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Be a talent multiplier: Hire, onboard, and develop a diverse, high-performing team of BDRs. Use coaching and regular feedback to help each team member grow into sales-ready talent for future Account Executive roles.
  2. Lead with motivation: Inspire your team to exceed quota through data-driven coaching, creative incentives, and recognition. Foster a culture of curiosity, accountability, and development.
  3. Drive business performance: Drive outbound prospecting strategy and execution to generate quality pipeline and revenue.
  4. Promote operational excellence: Build and optimize processes to maximize efficiency, productivity, and impact.
  5. Be a problem solver & strategic thinker: Use data to identify performance gaps and opportunities, and develop plans to address them quickly.

Skills

Required

  • sales leadership experience
  • leading teams of quota-carrying reps
  • business development experience
  • inside sales experience
  • SDR/BDR environments experience
  • delivering on pipeline and revenue goals
  • identifying and hiring top talent
  • coaching and developing early career talent
  • executive presence
  • communication skills
  • presentation skills
  • collaborating cross-functionally
  • planning and executing a Quarterly Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy
  • align to larger company priorities
  • self-starter
  • thrives in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment

Nice to have

  • individual contributor in B2B software sales
  • strong track record of consistently meeting or exceeding quotas
  • Bachelor’s degree

What the JD emphasized

  • 3+ years of sales leadership experience leading teams of 7+ quota-carrying reps
  • Proven track record of delivering on pipeline and revenue goals
  • Demonstrated ability to identify and hire top talent