SDR Manager

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Fitch Solutions is currently seeking a Sales Development Representative Manager based out of our London office.

As the SDR Manager at Fitch Solutions, you will lead and help build our SDR function, owning the top of the sales funnel and ensuring a steady pipeline of qualified opportunities for our Account Executives. You will work closely with prospective customers across the financial services industry, including fintechs, banks, lenders, and payments companies, to understand their needs and articulate the value of Fitch Solutions' offerings.

Leveraging your expertise in sales development, lead generation, and leadership, you will implement and refine strategies to optimize our outreach efforts and maximize conversion rates.

What We Offer:

• Opportunity to have an immediate impact on Fitch Solutions' growth trajectory in 2024 and beyond.
• Reporting to the Head of Marketing, you will have the ability to collaborate with other senior leaders across the go-to-market organization to develop and execute a cohesive pipeline-generating strategy that drives revenue growth for Fitch Solutions.

We'll Count on You To:

• Lead, coach, and help develop a team of SDRs, fostering a high-performance culture focused on achieving and exceeding targets.
• Be an integral part of the team that will Recruit, interview, and onboard new SDR team members to support the expansion of our GTM team.
• Work closely with other GTM leaders, as well as our sales and marketing teams, to ensure seamless cross-functional collaboration to drive pipeline.
• Work closely with our AE team to ensure clean handoffs and feedback loops for qualified opportunities.
• Partner with our marketing operations team to implement and refine SDR strategies, processes, and best practices to ensure the team is contributing to efficient pipeline generation.
• Collaborate with marketing, sales, and product teams to develop effective outbound messaging and campaigns.
• Analyze market trends and competitor activity to inform outreach strategies and positioning.
• Own and drive our weekly revenue-wide pipeline generation efforts by partnering with marketing to build outbound plays and content for SDRs and AEs.
• Partner with our event marketer to drive lead generation efforts for in-person and digital events.
• Ensure every SDR is continuously learning new skills, testing new prospecting approaches, and thinking creatively about how to reach our ideal customer profile (ICP).
• Motivate, incentivize, and recognize team members to encourage top performance and set up high-performing SDRs to move into new roles within the organization.
• Develop a point of view and contribute to the evolution of our sales strategy and revenue plan.

What You Need to Have:

• Solid experience in sales development or inside sales roles.
• Proven track record of successfully deploying a marketing campaign in a B2B financial services environment.
• Strong understanding of sales methodologies, lead generation techniques, outbound strategies, and overall pipeline management.
• Ability to work collaboratively across teams and departments.
• Experience with CRM software and other sales tools.
• Excellent experience of management, leadership and team-building skills.

What Would Make You Stand Out:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills

Why Fitch?

At Fitch Group, the combined power of our global perspectives is what differentiates us. Our global network of colleagues comes together to accomplish things greater than they ever could alone.

Every team member is essential to our business and each perspective is critical to our success. We embrace a diverse culture that encourages a free exchange of ideas, guaranteeing your voice will be heard and your work will have an impact, regardless of seniority.

We are building incredible things at Fitch and we invite you to join us on our journey.

Fitch Solutions is a leading provider of insights, data and analytics. It informs investment strategies, strengthens risk management capabilities and helps identify strategic opportunities. Its analysts, lawyers, journalists and economists offer in-depth views on credit markets, credit risk, ESG, developed and emerging markets, industry sectors and individual credits.

Fitch Group is a global leader in financial information services with operations in more than 30 countries. Wholly owned by the Hearst Corporation, we are comprised of three main businesses: Fitch Ratings | Fitch Solutions | Fitch Learning.

For more information please visit our websites:

www.fitchratings.com | www.fitchsolutions.com | www.fitchlearning.com

Fitch is committed to providing global securities markets with objective, timely, independent and forward-looking credit opinions. To protect Fitch's credibility and reputation, our employees must take every precaution to avoid conflicts of interests or any appearance of a conflict of interest.

Fitch Group is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.

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