The Role
Lead and coach an 8-person Mid-Market SDR outbound team to drive pipeline, build onboarding and training, refine processes and workflows, partner on outbound strategy, and report performance insights.
Summary Generated by Built In
We’re hiring an SDR Manager to lead our mid-market outbound team at Zinc.
This team is a huge driver of our growth, generating 60% of our pipeline purely from outbound 📈 So this isn’t just a management role, it’s a mission-critical one.
You’ll take ownership of a team of 8 SDRs, helping them perform consistently at a high level, while building the systems, structure, and coaching culture needed to scale.
We’re also one of the most tech-enabled SDR teams in the UK 🤖 so you’ll have the tools, data, and freedom to do this properly.
Key Responsibilities 🗝️
- Own the day-to-day performance and running of the Mid-Market SDR team
- Coach, develop, and support SDRs to consistently hit and exceed targets 🎯
- Deliver structured onboarding for new hires and get them ramping quickly
- Run proactive training sessions to continuously raise the bar
- Build and refine process, structure, and workflows to improve efficiency and conversion rates
- Partner with the Head of Outbound on messaging, sequencing, and outbound strategy
- Report on performance metrics and insights to the Head of Outbound
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise 🚀
- Proven experience managing or leading SDR / outbound teams
- Strong coaching mindset. You enjoy developing people, not just hitting numbers
- Data-driven approach to performance and improvement
- Comfortable working in a high-output outbound environment
- Someone who can bring structure, consistency, and energy to the team
- Interest in tooling, automation, and building scalable outbound systems ⚙️
What we offer 🍉
Zinc offers a chance to work on a product that brings a fresh perspective on data ownership in hiring
- 50% OTE (Uncapped)
- 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays + your birthday off 🎉
- £1200 annual benefits allowance (ThanksBen, from month 2)
- Early finish Fridays (16:00)
- Yearly company retreat abroad ✈️
- 30 days to Work from anywhere 🌍
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Leave (2 months full pay, then statutory)
- Statutory pension with NEST (3% employer, 5% employee)
- Zinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme
- Unlimited access to MoreHappi coaching
- Company socials, quarterly team socials Free Monday lunches
- Nursery workplace benefit scheme (Yellownest)
- Option to lease an electric car through Electric Car Scheme
- Celebrated Zinc anniversaries 🥳
About
Who we are ⚡Zinc builds automated reference and background checking tools designed to improve candidate experience and set new industry standards. Founded in 2017 by a team with extensive HRTech experience, Zinc is an early-stage startup rapidly growing as it redefines efficiency, transparency, and fairness in background checks.📚Read more about our story here: https://zincwork.com/missionWe're a culture first company, by this we don't just mean an active calendar of both company and team organised events 🍔🍻🎯 (which we do have 🤩),Zinc's culture is defined by a respectful and autonomous approach to all employees, fostering support for new ideas, promoting a flexible work environment, and operating within a flat structure. While socials, lunches, and events enhance the experience, the core of Zinc's culture drives employees to embrace innovation, share successes, and feel motivated about the company's future.🪴We recently redefined our company values:🧩The pieces that make Zinc: Pragmatic, Integrity, Empathy, Collaborate, Empowered, Speed.
Skills Required
- Proven experience managing or leading SDR/outbound teams
- Strong coaching mindset and ability to develop people
- Data-driven approach to performance and improvement
- Comfortable working in a high-output outbound environment
- Experience building process, structure, and scalable outbound systems
- Interest in tooling, automation, and sales enablement technologies
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The Company
What We Do
Zinc builds automated reference and background checking tools designed to improve candidate experience and set new industry standards, offering automated pre-screening employment software for HR and recruiting teams to verify candidates' backgrounds and hire at scale.
