Sales Manager

EcoVadis seeks a Sales Manager to join our highly successful sales team. In this role, your primary goal will be to maximize the company’s recurring revenue coming from new business in the Nordics and Benelux regions by leading and coaching one of our enterprise sales teams.

Responsibilities:

• Define and implement an ambitious sales strategy in your territory
• Lead and coach our Enterprise sales team and help them engage with prospective clients
• Drive performance and achieve quarterly and annual targets while ensuring predictability of incoming business
• Set quarterly and annual targets, performance plans and objective standards for Account Executives
• Recruit, select, onboard, train, and retain new sales Account Executives
• Collaborate with sales leadership, RevOps, and other internal stakeholders to optimize processes and ensure that your team uses tools, such as Salesforce and Salesloft correctly
• Act as a role model for the team and in accordance to the EcoVadis core values
• Given the steep growth of EcoVadis, your role and responsibilities will be permanently evolving and might encompass part, all or more of the above.

You must have an exceptional level of drive and a desire to pursue a career in sales in an international and dynamic environment. You should have superior verbal and written communication, negotiation and sales skills in English.

What you need to have to qualify:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in selling and coaching sales team members
• Proficiency with Salesforce. Salesloft and LinkedIn would be a plus
• Enterprise SaaS solution sales or consultative sales skills
• Experience approaching and building successful client and prospect meetings with C-level/VP executives
• Familiarity with Sustainability, CSR, ESG
• Superior communications skills: including the ability to capture an audience during a presentation 
• Ability to work under pressure, manage multiple tasks and foundational AI literacy

• Offer only for candidates eligible to work and live in the UK
• Location: Hybrid in London 

In return for your expertise, we offer:

• Support with all the necessary office and IT equipment
• Flexible working hours
• Wellness allowance for mental and physical wellbeing
• Access to professional mental health support
• Referral bonus policy
• Learning and development 
• Sustainability events and community involvement
• Peer recognition program
• Employee-led resource groups
• Cycle to work scheme
• Remote work from abroad policy 
• Hybrid work organization 
• Pension contributions and optional private health coverage
• Contract of Employment

Please, share with us your English CV and we can guarantee a response to every application. A new job with purpose awaits you!

Don’t fit all the criteria but still think you’d be a good candidate? Please apply anyway to give our hiring team the opportunity to assess your skills and to learn more about what you could bring to EcoVadis. We’re interested in hiring capable people, regardless of professional and educational background.

Can the hiring process be adjusted to suit my needs? Yes. We want everyone going through the hiring process with EcoVadis to feel confident that you are able to demonstrate your full potential. We welcome applications from disabled people, people with long-term health conditions and neurodiverse candidates. If you need any adjustments, please let the hiring team know.

Our team’s strength comes from everyone’s uniqueness and is founded upon mutual respect. EcoVadis commits to equity, inclusion and reducing bias in our hiring processes. EcoVadis does not accept any form of discrimination based on color, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, beliefs, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, neurodiversity, disability, parental status, or any other protected characteristic that makes you unique. In your application, we encourage you to remove personal information such as: photographs, marital status, number of children, religion, gender, residential postal code, university graduation date, past medical or parental leave(s) taken, nationality (instead, please state if you are legally eligible to work in the job region/country), university name (instead, please state any degrees obtained and the study major).