Manager, Sales Development Enterprise UK

ABOUT AIRWALLEX Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 676,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok, use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own. We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We're the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. We're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,300 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our operating principles https://www.airwallex.com/en-us/operating-principles to see it in full.   About the role This is a career-defining opportunity to join Airwallex’s EMEA team at a pivotal stage of growth and play a hands-on role in building our sales engine. You will influence the way we win and grow enterprise customers, and contribute to scaling a high-performing, revenue-generating function across the region. For someone excited by pace, ownership, and the chance to build, this role offers the opportunity to make a visible impact while growing alongside one of the world’s most ambitious fintech companies. What you'll do As Manager, Sales Development Enterprise UK, you will build and lead a high‑performing outbound SDR team focused on creating a qualified pipeline for our Enterprise business across the UK within our Embedded Finance, Payments and Spend Management teams. You will design the strategy to identify and engage new enterprise customers, coach SDRs on world‑class outbound execution, and use data to continuously improve performance. You will partner closely with Enterprise AEs, Marketing, and People & Talent to ensure the team is set up to hit ambitious monthly and quarterly targets. This role is based in London, United Kingdom. Responsibilities: - Develop and own the outbound SDR strategy for UK Enterprise, including target account selection, outbound motions, sequencing, and multi‑channel tactics to consistently generate high‑quality pipeline. - Hire, onboard, and lead a team of SDRs, setting clear expectations and providing ongoing coaching, training, and career development, with a particular focus on early‑career sales talent. - Implement, track, and analyse KPIs across activity, conversion, and pipeline created, using data to identify trends, diagnose performance gaps, and ensure monthly and quarterly goals are met or exceeded. - Partner closely with Marketing to design and refine lead‑generation programs, inbound lead handling processes, and campaigns aligned to our ideal customer profiles and priority verticals. - Work hand‑in‑hand with Enterprise Account Executives to ensure clean qualification, high‑quality discovery, and frictionless handover of opportunities, driving strong SAL‑to‑revenue conversion. - Establish and continuously improve team operating rhythms (stand‑ups, call blocks, pipeline reviews, enablement sessions) that drive accountability, learning, and high performance. - Champion CRM and tooling excellence, ensuring the team uses Salesforce and Outreach (or similar tools) effectively for territory management, activity tracking, and reporting in line with Sales guidelines. Who you are We're looking for people who meet the minimum requirements for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory. Minimum qualifications: - 3+ years of experience managing an SDR or outbound sales development team, ideally in a high‑growth SaaS, fintech, or technology environment, with a proven record of meeting or exceeding pipeline targets. - Demonstrated experience leading an outbound SDR function, including building or scaling processes for prospecting, qualification, and opportunity creation in a start‑up or scale‑up setting. - Proven track record of hiring, onboarding, and developing early‑career sales talent, including structured coaching on calls, messaging, and qualification. - Experience working cross‑functionally with Marketing, Account Executives, and People & Talent to align on ICP, campaigns, territory plans, and hiring or enablement priorities. - Strong analytical skills with the ability to define, monitor, and act on SDR KPIs and funnel metrics (activity, conversion, pipeline created) to drive continuous improvement. - Hands‑on proficiency with Salesforce or another leading CRM, plus a sales engagement platform such as Outreach or Salesloft, including building and refining sequences, reports, and dashboards. Preferred qualifications: - Experience building or significantly scaling an SDR or sales development team in a fintech or B2B payments company serving enterprise customers in the UK or EMEA. - Background in selling or prospecting into complex, multi‑stakeholder enterprise accounts, with familiarity across outbound tactics, territory design, and account‑based strategies. - Comfort operating in environments with high standards, fast iteration cycles, and evolving priorities, with a bias toward action, experimentation, and continuous improvement. - Experience using call recording, intelligence, and enablement tools (for example Chorus, Dialpad, Sales Navigator, ZoomInfo, or similar) to coach SDRs and refine targeting and messaging. - Passion for developing others, building an inclusive, high‑performance culture, and creating clear progression paths for SDRs into closing or other commercial roles. 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We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.