Senior Sales Compensation Manager designing global sales commission plans for DeepL. Collaborating with HR and Finance to ensure alignment with company goals.
About the role
- Sales Manager leading a team of Account Executives in B2B sales at Preply. Driving sales performance and strategic execution across Mid-Market and Enterprise segments.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of Account Executives focused on Mid-Market and Enterprise segments across EMEA.
- Create the right environment for AEs to thrive, ensuring they are fully set up for success to consistently achieve and exceed quota.
- Drive strong sales execution through regular coaching, performance management, and hands-on support in both strategic and complex deals.
- Own weekly forecasting cadence, including pipeline inspection, deal progression, close plans, and accurate reporting on committed business.
- Manage a quarterly team quota supported by clear monthly commitments and milestones, ensuring strong accountability and consistent performance.
- Foster a high-performance culture built on commitment, ownership, responsibility, and execution excellence.
- Partner closely with cross-functional teams including Marketing, RevOps, CS Ops, Product, KAMs, and other Sales leaders across SDR and AE organizations.
- Lead or contribute to high-impact projects beyond core team management, delivering tangible business improvements.
- Translate Preply’s mission and vision into clear direction for the team, helping others connect their day-to-day work to the broader company purpose.
Requirements
- Proven experience managing high-performing commercial teams, with 2–3+ years of people management experience in Enterprise sales.
- Strong track record operating across the Mid-Market and Enterprise segments, with a solid understanding of complex sales cycles, multi-stakeholder deal management, and up-market growth opportunities.
- Fluency in English plus at least one additional EMEA language.
- A highly driven mindset, with a strong sense of commitment, accountability, and ownership.
- Demonstrated ability to coach Account Executives to improve performance, accelerate deal progression, and consistently deliver against quota.
- Strong forecasting discipline, with proven experience managing pipeline health, conducting rigorous deal inspection, and ensuring weekly forecast accuracy.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to make data-driven decisions and use numbers, insights, and performance metrics to assess opportunities, prioritize actions, and drive results.
- Strong leadership presence and communication skills, with the ability to report business performance, forecast, and deal progression on a weekly basis with clarity, confidence, and credibility.
- Executive presence and strong commercial judgment, with the ability to negotiate effectively with C-level stakeholders and board members in complex sales environments.
- Confidence leading through ambiguity, solving complex problems beyond the team’s immediate scope, and navigating challenges with resilience and sound judgment.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to build trust and influence stakeholders across Sales, Marketing, Operations, Customer Success, and Product.
- Strong alignment with Preply’s mission and Principles, with the ability to translate vision into action and drive engagement and commitment across the team.
Benefits
- An open, collaborative, dynamic and diverse culture;
- A generous monthly allowance for lessons on Preply.com, Learning & Development budget and time off for your self-development;
- A competitive financial package with equity, leave allowance and health insurance;
- Not in Barcelona? We offer an attractive relocation package to join us in our Preply Barcelona Hub
- Access to free mental health support platforms;
- Access to Gympass-partnered wellness and gym centers throughout Spain to promote and support well-being and physical health;
- The opportunity to unlock the potential of learners and tutors through language learning and teaching in 175 countries (and counting!).
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