Team Lead Sales

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Fintech • Payments • Financial Services
Adyen is the financial technology platform of choice for leading companies across the globe.
The Role

This is Adyen

Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition. 

For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.

Team Lead Sales

We’re looking for an inspirational leader to join our Italian based team and be part of our EMEA Sales leadership team. The central goal of this role is to own the commercial outcomes of the Italian Sales team, and the strategy and execution that leads to achievement of commercial objectives. This requires strategic thinking, excellent commercial execution, strengthening the best team members while fostering teamwork.

The ideal candidate is a natural leader and networker with a consultative and commercial mindset, who thrives in a fast-paced, diverse, and entrepreneurial environment. As a critical member of the EMEA Team, this candidate will be an integral contributor to shaping Italy’s commercial strategy, collaborating with cross-functional teams and growing talent through fostering a healthy & collaborative team environment.

In this role you will be fully responsible for overseeing the Sales strategy for Italy while leading and developing the team of Sales Managers.

What you’ll do:

  • Building and scaling the Sales organisation in Italy and owning the end-to-end commercial success of your department;
  • Create and drive the vision and strategy for growing the Italian sales team, and scale day-to-day operations;
  • Engage with the largest strategic opportunities, leading executive relationships and helping the team navigate long sales cycles with complex fintech solutions to win new customers;
  • Adopt and influence the company's sales methodology/process and drive best practices on selling and forecasting;
  • Develop best practices that enable the organisation to more rapidly scale to deliver on revenue targets and support KPIs for growth;
  • Partner cross-functionally across different teams (e.g. Marketing, Product, Partnerships, Account Management, SDR, regionally and globally)

Who You Are

  • You have 10+ years of extensive sales experience, specialising in serving multinational enterprise customers;
  • You are an inspirational leader with 5+ years in Italy with demonstrated experience leading both leaders and individual contributors;
  • You have extensive knowledge on the Payments, FinTech and/or enterprise SAAS industries in Italy;
  • Strong experience with sales forecasting and metrics;
  • You are resilient and have the capacity to challenge and influence whilst remaining focused on growing a sustainable business;
  • You have the ability to structure and prioritize in a high volume, fast-paced environment and drive a process to completion;
  • You are a team player that does not shy away from taking ownership.

Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments 

Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you’re from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen. 

Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application!

What’s next?

Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role. Learn more about our hiring process here. Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility.

This role is based out of our Milan office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.

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The Company
HQ: Amsterdam
4,196 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2006

What We Do

By providing end-to-end payments capabilities, data-driven insights, and financial products in a single solution, Adyen helps businesses achieve their ambitions faster.

Our team members are motivated individuals from different cultures that help each other do remarkable things every day and across time zones. We face unique technical challenges at scale and we solve those as a team. And together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions for businesses all across the world.

With 28 offices across the globe, Adyen serves customers including Meta, Uber, Spotify, Casper, Bonobos and L'Oreal.

Why Work With Us

At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition. We started with payments, at a time when providers offered services based on a patchwork of systems built on outdated infrastructure. Ambition demanded more. So we set off to build a financial technology platform for the modern era, entirely in-house, from the ground up.

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