Manager Sales Development

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · Dublin, Ireland

Salesforce is seeking a Manager to lead a team of Enterprise Business Development Representatives. This role involves recruiting, motivating, and developing a client-facing sales team, generating revenue forecasts, and driving sales development execution. The position requires strong tech sales experience, preferably in SaaS and AI, with a focus on management and building high-performance cultures. The role contributes to the corporate sales strategy and aims to drive the acquisition of new logos.

What you'd actually do

  1. Recruit, retain, motivate, and develop a client-facing and high-performing BDR sales team
  2. The day-to-day management of the team, including responsibility for performance management, recruitment and training
  3. Generate and achieve monthly territory forecasts and accurately predict monthly revenues
  4. Responsible for ownership of various aspects of the business including but not limited to: Marketing Initiatives, Enablement, Operations
  5. Work cross-functionally with marketing, sales development and other sales teams to develop operational strategies and execution plans for new geographies, products and market segments

Skills

Required

  • Tech Sales experience
  • SaaS experience
  • AI experience
  • Management experience
  • Developing high-performance cultures
  • Coaching and managing team members
  • Achieving performance goals
  • Over-achievement of quota
  • Building diverse teams
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Inspiring and building trusted relationships
  • Communication skills
  • Organizational skills
  • Time management skills
  • Working in a multi-cultural & high-growth environment
  • Relevant experience
  • English fluency
  • Italian fluency

Nice to have

  • AI CRM
  • AI agents

What the JD emphasized

  • Strong Tech Sales experience (preferably SaaS, AI) in a management role
  • Experience in developing a high-performance culture across teams
  • Experience in successfully coaching and managing team members to achieve performance goals
  • Consistent record of over-achievement of quota expectations in an individual contributor sales role
  • Fluency in English AND Italian are required for this role