Job Description
This position follows the Company’s hybrid schedule which currently requires employees to work in the Paris or Munich Office a minimum of three days per week. The Basics:
Tanium is looking for talented and energetic individuals to be part of our growing business. The Sales Development Manager will manage a team of Sales Development Representatives (SDRs) focused on driving quality pipeline to the business. In the past year, we have entered our fastest growing segment that presents a massive opportunity for growth minded individuals to not only build a winning business, but to run past their goals. This position will provide leadership and planning as well as coaching and training to drive the very best results for the business. You will be closely aligned with sales leadership, field sales, sales operations, marketing, partners, and alliances. The successful candidate for this role should thoroughly understand outbound activities, modern sales prospecting practices, sales opportunity qualification, and would have a proven track record leading teams in the Technology sector. Demonstration of a passion for coaching, mentoring, and developing others is essential, as well as thriving in a rapid change and growth environment.
What you’ll do:
- Drive and participate in the recruitment of the very best talent for the SDR organization
- Use best practice sales management disciplines to train, coach and develop the SDRs in close collaboration with our enablement team
- Build a team-first, winning culture that focuses on career progression and performance
- Be metrics driven – continually optimize SDR processes as well as messaging, cadences, and campaigns for optimal results
- Using analytics to help coach, understand, and drive impactful results to the business while maintaining accurate forecasting and reporting
- Partner across the business to create and implement SDR programs focused on customer acquisition
- Train and manage the SDR team on how to prospect, qualify leads, and exceed goals
- Prioritize 1:1’s and coaching to develop your teams’ talent to grow into new opportunities at Tanium
- Track follow up on daily MQLs, contact us form submissions, live chat inquiries, and other inbound sales-ready leads
- Partner with regional sales directors and field marketing to execute cross-functional demand generation in key accounts for our field sales team
- Work with marketing and sales leadership to optimize pipeline and revenue creation
We’re Looking For:
- Bachelor’s degree with a preference for Business or Technology or equivalent work experience
- 3+ years of experience managing an SDR or Inside Sales team
- Fluency in English and French or German
- Strong knowledge of Salesforce, LinkedIn Navigator, Groove, Claude Ai, Notion and other best in class tools
- Expertise in prospecting and sales best practices
- Proven ability to spot talent, hire and grow SDRs to be Sales rock-stars
- Be a great coach and have solid people skills to foster a strong team — A natural leader
- You are approachable, a natural problem solver, and have grit
- Big picture thinking and not content with the status quo
About Tanium
Tanium is the Autonomous IT company. Driven by AI and real-time endpoint intelligence, Tanium Autonomous IT empowers IT and security teams to make their organizations unstoppable.
Many of the world’s leading organizations trust Tanium’s single, unified platform for endpoint management and security to innovate faster, stay resilient and move business forward with confidence, at scale. To learn how Tanium delivers Autonomous IT for unstoppable business – visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.
On a mission. Together.
At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.
As a global organization with stakeholders around the world, it’s imperative that the diversity of our customers and communities is reflected internally in our team members. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that only together can we do great things.
Our commitment to excellence and innovation has earned us a place on the Forbes Cloud 100 list for ten consecutive years, and we continue to be recognized worldwide as a great place to work.
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