First Line Manager

This job is brought to you by Jobs/Redefined, the UK's leading over-50s age inclusive jobs board.

As the Sales Manager, you'll be a foundational force in building and scaling both new logo acquisition and expansion in your region. Leading a team of motivated quota-carrying Account Executives, you'll be accountable for creating an elite sales culture, enhancing sales discipline, and helping your team win complex enterprise deals across high-potential markets.

You will embody what it means to be a bar-raiser - not just holding high standards, but operationalising them through coaching, process, and execution.

What you will do:

Champion Elite Sales Execution

• Lead from the front by coaching AEs through long, complex enterprise sales cycles - from outbound opportunity generation through to multi-threaded stakeholder engagement, PoCs, and contract negotiation
• Reinforce a rigorous, AE-led approach to pipeline creation and account strategy

Drive and Scale New Logo Acquisition and Expansion

• Build and execute regional strategies to break into high-value accounts across the crypto, fintech, financial services, and regulatory ecosystem
• Forecast accurately, deliver against team quota, and maximise GTM efficiency in region

Embed Sales Rigour & Methodology

• Roll out and reinforce powerful sales hygiene - from qualification and forecasting, to next-step discipline and CRM hygiene
• Act as a process enabler, ensuring not just methodology knowledge, but mastery in execution underpinning MEDDPICC and Value-Based Selling
• Leverage AI-powered sales tools to support qualification, pipeline health, and deal strategy execution.

Coach, Develop & Elevate the Team

• Continuously coach on core sales motions: outbound prospecting, access to power, objection handling, discovery quality, and deal closing
• Provide real-time feedback via call coaching, pipeline reviews, and deal strategy sessions
• Help AEs progress their careers while outperforming targets
• Encourage the thoughtful application of AI tools within the sales process, fostering a culture of experimentation and continuous improvement.
• Incorporate AI-driven insights and capabilities into seller workflows to enhance productivity, improve win rates, and shorten sales cycles.

Accelerate Strategic Proof-of-Concept Motions

• Elevate the team's handling of Proofs of Concept and Trial cycles - ensuring AEs & SEs collaborate, and deliver customised demonstrations
• Partner with pre-sales to deliver exceptional buying experiences

Orchestrate Cross-Functional Success

• Steer/Support the sales team in leading a cross-functional deal squad to ensure a smooth and high-velocity deal cycle
• Feed voice-of-customer insights back into GTM leadership and Product

Build a High-Performance Culture

• Create psychological safety and accountability through inclusion, transparency, and trust
• Set the tone for excellence, energy, and ethical ambition - within your team and cross-regionally
• Hire, onboard, and retain exceptional talent

Promote AI literacy and usage best practices across the team to drive innovation, reduce cognitive load, and support data-informed decision-making.

You'll Thrive Here If You Have

• Solid experience of B2B SaaS sales experience, with a strong bias toward enterprise and/or FI new business acquisition
• 3-5 years of sales leadership experience, managing quota-carrying AEs in a high-growth, fast-paced GTM environment with a strong track record of delivering against team quota.
• Proven, practical expertise in MEDDIC / MEDDPICC and Value Selling
• A track record of leading high-performing teams that consistently meet and exceed quota targets
• Hands-on experience managing AE-led outbound/prospecting motions, and coaching reps on breaking into cold accounts
• Previous success running sales cycles that include Proof of Concept or Trial components
• Excellence in pipeline hygiene, sales forecasting, and funnel management
• Ability to thrive in ambiguity, think cross-regionally, and scale what works - fast
• A collaborative and growth-minded leadership style with strong cross-functional influence
• A strong awareness of AI tools and techniques relevant to modern sales execution (e.g., conversation intelligence, sales enablement platforms, lead scoring) - and a willingness to coach reps on their effective, ethical use.
• Strong interest or experience in digital assets
• Bonus for candidates who have Web3 experience

Benefits:

How We Work

• Hybrid working and the option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year
• £500 Remote working budget to set up your home office space

Learning & Development

• $1,000 Learning & Development budget to use on anything (agreed with your manager) that contributes to your growth and development

Vacation/Leave

• Holidays: 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
• An extra day for your birthday
• Enhanced parental leave: we provide eligible employees, regardless of gender or whether they become a parent by birth or adoption, 16 weeks fully-paid leave

Benefits

• Private Health Insurance - we use Vitality!
• Full access to Spill Mental Health Support
• Life Assurance: 4 times your salary to your beneficiaries
• £100 cryptocurrency for you!
• Cycle to Work Scheme