The Role
The Sales Manager leads a team of Account Executives to drive new customer acquisition, develop sales strategies, and manage performance metrics, optimizing processes in Salesforce for revenue growth.
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Job Summary
The Sales Manager is responsible for leading a team of Account Executives focused on prospecting, engaging, and acquiring new customers. This role is ideal for a hands-on manager who can drive performance, coach high-performing sales professionals, develop and maintain operational processes in Salesforce, and build a scalable pipeline of new business opportunities. The Sales Manager will play a pivotal role in accelerating revenue growth and expanding the OVHcloud market footprint.
Base salary range: $100,000-120,000 per year (based on relevant experience) on a 70/30 plan.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
Team Leadership & Performance Management
Working Conditions
Standard office environment
Company Description – About OVHcloud
OVHcloud US is a subsidiary of OVHcloud, a global cloud provider that specializes in delivering industry-leading performance and cost-effective solutions to better manage, secure, and scale data. OVHcloud US delivers bare metal servers, hosted private cloud, hybrid and public cloud solutions. OVHcloud manages 43 data centers across 12 sites on four continents, manufacturing its own servers, building its own data centers and deploying its own fiber-optic global network to achieve maximum efficiency. Through the OVHcloud spirit of challenging the status quo, the company brings freedom, security and innovation to solve data challenges – today and tomorrow. With a 25-year heritage, OVHcloud is committed to developing responsible technology and strives to be the driving force behind the next cloud evolution. https://us.ovhcloud.com.
EEO Statement
OVHcloud is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, color, sex (including childbirth, breast feeding, and related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, uniform service member and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, age, protected medical condition, genetic information, disability, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws.
The Sales Manager is responsible for leading a team of Account Executives focused on prospecting, engaging, and acquiring new customers. This role is ideal for a hands-on manager who can drive performance, coach high-performing sales professionals, develop and maintain operational processes in Salesforce, and build a scalable pipeline of new business opportunities. The Sales Manager will play a pivotal role in accelerating revenue growth and expanding the OVHcloud market footprint.
Base salary range: $100,000-120,000 per year (based on relevant experience) on a 70/30 plan.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
Team Leadership & Performance Management
- Lead, mentor, and manage a team of technical and non-technical account executives.
- Set clear sales targets, KPIs, and territory/account plans for each team member.
- Conduct regular pipeline reviews, one-on-ones, and performance evaluations.
- Foster a high-performance, accountability-driven sales culture.
- Track KPIs through Salesforce reports and maintain dashboards for executive views
- Develop and implement effective new business development strategies across diverse customer segments and industries.
- Oversee the end-to-end sales process: from lead generation and qualification to proposal development, negotiation, and closing.
- Ensure full buy-in on all operational tools and processes used by the team to drive consistent monitoring and reporting.
- Ensure consistent execution of outbound prospecting, sales activities, and use of CRM tools.
- Align team strategies with broader company goals and go-to-market plans.
- Collaborate with Marketing, Product Enablement, and Product Marketing teams to ensure consistent messaging across all sales tools, including but not limited to prospecting presentations, value propositions, and lead generation campaigns.
- Coordinate training and supporting tools to ensure both technical and non-technical reps have the knowledge and confidence to succeed.
- Collaborate with the product enablement or solutions engineering team to support complex or high-value opportunities.
- Monitor sales metrics and create regular performance reports for senior leadership.
- Analyze funnel performance to identify areas of improvement and optimize conversion rates.
- Forecast revenue accurately and manage team quotas and individual targets.
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Technology, Engineering, or related field; equivalent experience considered in lieu of degree.
- 5+ years of B2B sales experience, with at least 2 years in a sales supervisory or management role overseeing account executive teams.
- Proven success in managing teams that include both technical and non-technical sales professionals.
- Strong understanding of outbound sales tactics, consultative selling, and modern sales tech stacks (CRM, sales engagement tools, etc.).
- Excellent leadership, coaching, and communication skills.
- Experience in Colocation, IaaS, Backup & Disaster Recovery Services, Private and Hybrid Cloud Solutions, and/or SaaS.
- Hands-on leader who leads by example and isn't afraid to step in on complex deals.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-growth, and dynamic environment.
- Analytical mindset with strong decision-making capabilities.
- Deep understanding of both technical product positioning and business value articulation.
Working Conditions
Standard office environment
Company Description – About OVHcloud
OVHcloud US is a subsidiary of OVHcloud, a global cloud provider that specializes in delivering industry-leading performance and cost-effective solutions to better manage, secure, and scale data. OVHcloud US delivers bare metal servers, hosted private cloud, hybrid and public cloud solutions. OVHcloud manages 43 data centers across 12 sites on four continents, manufacturing its own servers, building its own data centers and deploying its own fiber-optic global network to achieve maximum efficiency. Through the OVHcloud spirit of challenging the status quo, the company brings freedom, security and innovation to solve data challenges – today and tomorrow. With a 25-year heritage, OVHcloud is committed to developing responsible technology and strives to be the driving force behind the next cloud evolution. https://us.ovhcloud.com.
EEO Statement
OVHcloud is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, color, sex (including childbirth, breast feeding, and related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, uniform service member and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, age, protected medical condition, genetic information, disability, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws.
Top Skills
CRM
Sales Engagement Tools
Salesforce
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The Company
What We Do
OVHcloud is a global player and the leading European cloud provider operating 400,000 servers within over 30 data centers across 4 continents.
For more than 20 years, OVHcloud has been leveraging an integrated model that provides full control of our value chain, from designing its servers to managing its data centers through to orchestrating its fiber-optic network. This unique approach enables OVHcloud to cover, independently, the full spectrum of use cases for its 1.6 million customers across 140 countries.
OVHcloud now offers customers latest-generation solutions that combine high performance, predictable pricing and full data sovereignty to support their unfettered growth.
The group employs more than 2,200 people and our teams are growing rapidly. To support our vision, we are constantly looking for new talents who share our values and ambitions.
Our motto: be open, be sustainable, be free in the cloud!
