The Inside Sales Manager leads a multi-segment inside sales organization responsible for driving new revenue growth across SMB, Middle Market, Enterprise, and ISV/ embedded payments customers through both direct merchant sales and partner/channel-led opportunities.This role manages multiple sales motions, from high-velocity SMB transactions to complex enterprise and platform integrations, all while maintaining pipeline discipline, compliance and partner alignment. This role is responsible for building, coaching, and leading a high-performing inside sales team. Key leader in optimizing processes, enhancing customer relationships, and driving revenue growth.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead, coach, and develop inside sales teams supporting SMB, Enterprise and ISV sales motions.
- Develop and execute comprehensive business development strategies utilizing outbound calling, warm calling, telemarketing, and targeted marketing campaigns.
- Drive performance through call reviews, deal strategy, and structured coaching.
- Establish segment appropriate quotas, KPIs, and coverage models.
- Negotiate contracts and close deals by clearly articulating product benefits, overcoming objections, and ensuring mutually beneficial agreements.
- Collaborate with marketing teams to develop campaigns that generate qualified leads and increase brand awareness within target markets.
- Drive efficiency in qualification, pricing and underwriting readiness.
- Optimize lead conversion and fast activation.
- Ensure disciplined CRM usage and structured handoffs to onboarding.
- For Enterprise Sales: support a longer-cycle, high value enterprise opportunity by coaching reps on multi-stakeholder engagement, RFP and procurement navigation, and solutions and pricing governance.
- For ISV Payment Sales: support reps to sell platform-level solutions rather than individual merchant accounts, support technical discovery, API alignment, and onboarding frameworks.
- For Partner and Channel Sales: ensure teams understand partner programs, residuals, and revenue shares.Provide pre- and post- sales support for pricing and proposals, technical validation, and onboarding coordination.
- Work directly with retail bank branches to build and maintain relationships with branch managers and regional bank leadership, developing a consistent merchant referral pipeline from the branch network.
- Sources new sales opportunities through inbound leads from inbound calls, chats, and/or internet leads.
- Create and own pipeline including metrics for conversion rates, sales cycle lengths, approval and activation rates and partner-sourced and ISV-sourced revenue.
- Identify operational bottlenecks and drive cross-functional improvements.
- Understands products and services to be able to quickly and efficiently propose to customers; provide complete and appropriate solutions to boost revenue growth.
- Establish, develop, and maintain customer relationships.
- Use Microsoft Dynamics 365 to track interactions, manage opportunities, and maintain pipeline discipline.
- Responsible for meeting and exceeding provided quotas.
- Manage the workflow of the sales team to encourage efficient and productive service.
- Strong understanding of or demonstrated ability to quickly master:
- oCard present and card-not-present (CNP) processing
- oInterchange and pricing strategies
- oPOS systems, gateways, APIs, and embedded payments
- Proven ability to coach, forecast, and scale teams.
- Comfortable balancing direct sales, partner influence, and platform-level growth.
- Exceptional communication, presentation, and consultation skills.
- Proven sales experience with a track record of achieving quota.
- Strategic and problem-solving mindset with developed analytical ability, critical thinking, and decision-making skills.
- Fast learner and passionate about sales.
- Excellent time management and organizational skills with the ability to prioritize workload and multi-task in a fast-paced environment while maintaining attention to detail.
- Excellent customer service and relationship management skills with the ability to effectively interact with internal and external top executives and business owners in a variety of industries.
- Self-driven and highly motivated; takes pride in meeting and exceeding goals.
- Proficient in Microsoft Dynamics 365.
- Proficiency with Microsoft office (PowerPoint, Excel, Office, Word, and SharePoint and the ability to navigate banking software applications.
Minimum Qualifications/Experience:
- 5+ years' Inside Sales experience required in SaaS, fintech, financial services, payments, or related B2B sales; payments experience strongly preferred.
- 2+ years in a supervisory role managing multiple sales motions required.
- Experience selling transactional SMB deals and complex enterprise/ISV solutions.
Formal Education & Certification:
- Bachelor's degree in Sales, Marketing, or relevant field a plus.
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