Sago

Sales Team Leader

Sago
Posted 10/20/2026full-timeRemote • New Jersey • United StatesSenior💰 $150,000 - $180,000 per yearWebsite
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Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates strong sales leadership and coaching capabilities, with a focus on performance management, pipeline management, and team development. Proven ability to analyze sales data, improve processes, and foster cross-functional collaboration to drive revenue growth.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Sales Leadership ExperienceCoaching And Performance ManagementPipeline ManagementCRM ProficiencyForecast Accuracy

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Lead, coach, and hold assigned sales representatives accountable for individual and team sales goals
  • Set clear expectations, priorities, performance standards, and ways of working
  • Conduct regular one-on-ones, team meetings, pipeline reviews, deal reviews, and coaching sessions
  • Provide timely feedback, recognize strong performance, and address performance gaps through documented coaching and corrective action when needed
  • Create development plans and identify training, mentoring, and growth opportunities for team members
  • Monitor workload, account coverage, and team capacity, and recommend resource or structural changes as appropriate
  • Support recruitment, selection, onboarding, and training of new team members
  • Ensure compliance with company policies, sales practices, approval requirements, and professional standards
  • Communicate business and process changes clearly and build a culture of accountability, collaboration, and customer focus
  • Partner with the EVP, Global Sales to execute sales strategies across assigned markets, products, and client segments
  • Translate commercial priorities into team objectives, account plans, activity expectations, and measurable actions
  • Own team pipeline quality, forecasting accuracy, opportunity stages, close dates, and next steps
  • Analyze sales results, conversion trends, client feedback, and activity data to identify risks, opportunities, and coaching needs
  • Provide clear performance updates and recommendations to sales leadership and help remove barriers to revenue growth
  • Improve sales processes, reporting, tools, and operating rhythms to increase team effectiveness
  • Support team members with complex opportunities, client strategy, negotiations, and escalations as needed
  • Partner with Marketing, Operations, Delivery, Finance, Legal, Product, and other teams to support lead generation, solution development, contracting, and client handoffs
  • Coordinate with sales leadership to clarify ownership, avoid duplication, and support cross-sell and enterprise opportunities

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Sales, Marketing, or a related field, or equivalent experience
  • Proven sales leadership experience with a strong understanding of complex sales cycles and client relationships
  • Minimum of five years of people-management or formal sales-leadership experience
  • Demonstrated experience in coaching, performance management, pipeline management, forecasting, and sales execution
  • Strong leadership, communication, presentation, commercial judgment, and problem-solving skills
  • Proficiency with CRM, sales reporting, and analytics tools
  • Ability to lead and develop a sales team in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment
  • Team achievement against revenue, pipeline, activity, retention, and growth goals
  • Forecast accuracy, pipeline quality, CRM discipline, and consistent sales execution
  • Improvement in team capability, accountability, and performance
  • Strong client outcomes and effective cross-functional partnerships

ATS Keywords

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Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills
Sales ExecutionPerformance ManagementPipeline ManagementForecastingSales ReportingAnalyticsClient Relationship ManagementRevenue GrowthTeam DevelopmentAccount Planning
Soft Skills
LeadershipCommunicationPresentationCommercial JudgmentProblem-Solving
Tools & Technologies
CRM ToolsSales Reporting ToolsAnalytics Tools
Industry Keywords
Sales GoalsTeam AccountabilityClient OutcomesCross-Functional PartnershipsSales Practices