Head of Sales

A fin-tech company is looking for a dynamic Head of Sales to join their team.

If you’re interested in a truly rewarding career and mission-driven fin-tech company, read on.

You’ll be a great fit if you thrive in a start-up environment, are resourceful and have excellent leadership skills. If you’ve scaled a team and built a market-place and sales department before within a fin-tech or similar environment this is an exceptional opportunity for you.

Your day to day responsibilities:

• Lead a small team of sales representatives (3 people)
• Develop a sales strategy for the organization for the specific segment and execute the sales strategy successfully
• Drive the acquisition of of new customers and achieve or overachieve the sales target
• Determine the best way to generate leads, an outbound strategy
• Create partnerships opportunities to drive revenue growth
• Develop sales events, demos and other channels to generate brand awareness and lead conversions
• Work closely with the leadership team on strategies
• Work cross functionally with the marketing and product team
• Develop relationships with necessary partners to expand the reach of the company’s offerings
• Implement, test and use a variety of technologies to capture lead generation activities and use data-driven insights to increase conversion rates and reduce customer acquisition time
• Develop an understanding of of the industry, stay up to date with industry trends and understand the best way to position the company and its products

Leadership & Coaching

• Provide guidance, advice and mentorship to the sales team
• Inspire and lead the sales team
• Identify talent and hire excellent people for the sales team

Your Background:

• You love leading teams and building departments
• You have an entrepreneurial background and have worked in a start-up environment and succeeded in such an environment
• You’re naturally a sales person that develops relationships easily and have an ability to close deals and be persuasive
• You have a growth mindset and apply this to all areas of your life
• You’re ambitious and a big-picture thinker.
• You should have a demonstrated ability to do sales on your own, having been in a sales position for at least 5 years
• Ideally you have B2C and B2B sales experience and have worked in a start-up
• You have at least 2 years of leadership experience
• A natural networker, you have excellent communication skills, both written and oral
• You either have fin-tech experience or a natural aptitude for learning a new industry and applying your sales experience to it
• Ideally you have studied finance at university or understand the industry

Why Join?

• Well funded fin-tech start-up
• Autonomy and trust and flexibility
• The chance to build and lead an amazing team
• Full time position
• Employee Stock Options
• Excellent office in the centre of Amsterdam

Salary

90- 115K base salary, bonus (based on performance) and employee stock options in a Series A start-up that's growing quickly