Senior Manager/Manager, Sales Development

Join Databricks as a Strategic Leader in Sales Development

Databricks operates at the leading edge of the data and AI space with a mission to help companies solve the world’s toughest problems. We are expanding our sales development team at Databricks and are looking for a strategic leader to manage and grow our Benelux and Nordic teams, and help us expand our business in the region.

Reporting to the Director of Sales Development EMEA, you will be a crucial member of our leadership team, leading recruiting, pipeline generation strategy, and constructive coaching for our BDRs. You will have experience driving pipeline generation, leading sales development teams, and working with sales and marketing teams.

The impact you will have:

• Take the primary leadership role in building and scaling an outstanding team
• Support and shape strategy for pipeline generation within the Benelux and Nordics team
• Manage your team’s multi-million dollar new business pipeline target and be active in coaching team members to be successful
• Work with cross-functional regional leadership to maximise the contribution of the team
• Maintain strong reporting, accountability, and attainment against quota
• Analyse team performance and funnel data to identify and fix inefficiencies

What we look for:

• Experience as a Sales Development manager, with consistent overachievement against quota
• Experience growing a sales development team by recruiting and developing SDRs, focused on giving people the training and support that they need to succeed
• Experienced in sales process focused around value selling, prospecting, and opportunity qualification
• High proficiency in leveraging sales tools including Salesforce, Outreach/Salesloft
• Passion for cloud, big data, and AI, with prior experience in this space highly preferred
• Fluency in Dutch and/or a Nordic language is an advantage

About Databricks

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics, and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake, and MLflow.

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