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Director of Sales Excellence & Strategy

Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain · Sales

Director of Sales Excellence: 

Our passion at SumUp is championing small businesses. We believe in creating technology that is flexible, fair, affordable and easy to use. Every day millions of people around the world dream of starting their own businesses. We strive to help them to do this. Our long-term goal is to close the loop by enabling businesses to turn transactions with customers into long term relationships. 

The Director of Sales Excellence and Strategy will drive sales performance by developing and implementing effective sales strategies, processes, tools, and methodologies. You will be responsible for setting up the sales excellence function and launching new sales motions and new initiatives across our European market. 

What you’ll do

  • Develop and implement sales enablement strategies to drive a high-performance sales culture across the sales organisation

  • Develop sales growth strategies whilst working in tandem with the marketing and CRM team

  • Analyse market trends, conduct competitor and price benchmarking

  • Support performance and commission management

  • Track targets, build forecasts and work on hiring quotas

  • Collaborate with the RevOps team to ensure Sales CRM and tools are designed effectively and working smoothly

  • Collaborate with the Global Data team to ensure the right dashboarding and availability of quality data to make business decisions

You’ll be great for this role if

  • You have solid experience in a similar role and experience  in sales management, sales enablement and sales effectiveness 

  • You have a proven track record of developing and executing successful sales enablement and effective strategies and programs

  • You have management skills to motivate and inspire the sales teams

  • You have strong communication and interpersonal skills to build relationships with sales and cross-functional teams

  • You have strong analytical and data skills to analyse sales data and enablement metrics to make data-driven decisions (Excel and modeling skills to build forecasts or commission plans would be considered a plus)

  • You have prior experience with sales enablement tools and CRMs (experience with Salesforce would be considered a plus)

Why you should join SumUp

  • We are a true global tech company with over 3000+ people from 93 nationalities, spread across 22 offices in Europe, LatAm and the US. 

  • Enrolment onto our VSOP program - you will own a stake in SumUp’s future success. 

  • You can truly create your own path here and help us shape the future for small businesses globally.

  • We get together regularly for breakfasts, team events, office parties, and sports.

  • You’ll receive a budget for your individual development, attending conferences and external training. 

  • We offer a competitive compensation package and paid leave and you will have access to the SumUp Sabbatical, our Employee Referral and Employee assistance programme for mental health as well as Fitness and language learning offers.

About SumUp

We believe in the everyday hero.

Small business owners are at the heart of all we do, so we create powerful, easy-to-use financial solutions to help them run their businesses. With a founder’s mentality and a 'team-first’ attitude, our diverse teams across Europe, South America and the United States work together to ensure that the small business owners we partner with can be successful doing what they love. 

SumUp is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. SumUp does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, colour, religion or religious belief, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age or any other basis protected by applicable laws or prohibited by company policy. SumUp also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind.

SumUp will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate.

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