Sales Development Representative - German market

Teamleader; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training budget

Personal tooling budget

Lunch and dinner options (Ghent office

Friyays and sport initiatives

Competitive salary

Job summary

Teamleader is expanding its Orbit unit and seeks a Sales Development Representative for the German market. You will kick off the sales cycle with mid-sized agencies, working remotely from Germany or hybrid from Ghent or Amsterdam.

You’ll own your pipeline, engage decision-makers, book discovery meetings, and help refine our playbook for the German market. Fluent German and professional English are required, and you’ll join a fast-paced SaaS environment within the Visma group.

Qualifications

• 1+ year of sales experience with targets.
• Fluent German and professional English.
• Ability to prospect and qualify leads for a multi-month cycle.

Responsibilities

• Own your pipeline from prospecting to qualification in a 3–6 month cycle.
• Initiate conversations with MDs/CEOs via calls, LinkedIn, and email.
• Book and brief discovery meetings for Account Executives and Strategy Consultants.
• Contribute to refining the German market playbook and targeting.

Skills

Sales experience

Target-driven

German fluency

English proficiency

Prospecting

Independent work

Job description

As a Sales Development Representative - German market (Medior), you'd be joining the team driving international expansion of Teamleader Orbit, talking daily with decision-makers at marketing and digital agencies across the German-speaking market.

• Location: Remote from Germany, or hybrid from Ghent (Belgium) / Amsterdam (Netherlands)
• Scope: New business acquisition and international expansion for Teamleader Orbit
• Language requirement: German (fluent), English (professional level)
• Start: ASAP

Who are we and why should you care?

Teamleader is a SaaS scale-up born in 2012 in Ghent, Belgium, and part of the Visma Group since 2022. Our mission? To make work easier, not harder, for small and medium-sized businesses.

What you'll do

Together with your colleagues, you’ll open up the German market for Teamleader Orbit, owning the start of the sales cycle for mid-sized agencies (20+ employees) in marketing, digital and creative.

• Own your pipeline. Prospect, qualify and follow up leads through a 3 to 6 month sales cycle.
• Open doors with decision-makers. Start conversations with managing directors, owners and C-level contacts through calls, LinkedIn, email or other channels. Your approach, your call.
• Set up strong discovery meetings. Book and brief meetings for our Account Executives and Strategy Consultants.
• Sharpen the playbook. Test what works for the German market, share your insights and help Marketing target the right accounts.

You’ll get a solid onboarding on Orbit and our market, so you can hit the ground running and focus on what you already do well.

Why others chose Teamleader: we're lively, not corporate

We have the energy and boldness of a start-up and the expertise and pragmatism of a scale-up. The result: a team of both young and seasoned professionals led by supportive and approachable managers who give recognition and rewards for hard work. You’ll be working in a fast-paced tech environment with open feedback culture and room for initiatives as well as ideas. You’ll have plenty of room to apply your personality, express yourself, and impact our course of action with your insights or ideas.

On top of that, you’ll get:

• An extensive training budget
• A personal tooling budget, to make working from home as comfortable as from our offices.
• Daily budget-friendly in-house prepared lunch and dinner options (only in our Ghent office), as well as Friyays and numerous sport initiatives (only for colleagues in our Amsterdam and Ghent offices)!
• Competitive and market-conform salary with compensations and benefits.
• Our long-lasting dedication to employee well-being.

Job requirements

You’d be a great fit if you

• Bring at least 1 year of sales experience. Where you gained it matters less than what you learned
• Have experience working towards targets and know what it takes to hit them
• Feel confident talking business with managing directors and C-level contacts and want to truly understand their needs
• Stay persistent and positive on the phone, even on a tough day
• Are proactive, self-driven and enjoy working independently
• Speak fluent German and English (English is our internal language)