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Sophos

Sales Development Manager

Sophos

Sales Development Manager leading a team of SDRs for cybersecurity company Sophos. Focusing on performance, training, and collaboration within the Sales and Marketing teams.

Posted 6/19/2026full-timeManchester • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Is accountable for the performance and results of the team.
  • Monitors, tracks and reports on KPIs.
  • Performs regular team meetings and 1-1s.
  • Promotes success, but also addresses underperformance.
  • Uses all of this, in combination, to ensure team targets are hit.
  • Develops new skills and awareness, unlocks potential, enables progression and delivers, as part of a wider coaching culture, regular coaching sessions.
  • Engages positively with other Sales and Marketing leaders.
  • Presents regular performance updates, new ideas and future plans.
  • Builds a sales mentality and methodology throughout.
  • Works with enablement team to design and deliver training programmes that are fit for a modern, progressive and future facing SDR team.
  • Sustains energy and purpose across the team through positive leadership, spotting and celebrating good performance.
  • Works in tandem with the EMEA SDR Manager to enable and create more time for strategic development of the SDR function.
  • Builds close and productive working relationships with others across the Global SDR Leadership team.
  • Is willing to experiment, benchmark and take risks.
  • Successfully recruits high calibre and high potential candidates.
  • Designs and arranges extended induction programmes that enable new recruits to add value from early in their Sophos careers.
  • Leads from the front, brings energy, maintains credibility, ensures professionalism and gets people to see new possibilities.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Has had or has a strong desire to perform a Management role.
  • 3+ Years experience within a sales environment.
  • Successful track record in delivering targets.
  • Has collaborated with, influenced and achieved productive working relationships with Senior Stakeholders.
  • Defined, measured, interpreted and presented performance goals.
  • Has successfully overseen change projects.
  • Has used coaching to drive positive change and realise potential in others.
  • Used to managing mixed priorities and activities.
  • Lead, create purpose, maintain motivation.
  • Manage/maximise performance and results.
  • Collaboration.
  • Recruit, develop and retain talent.
  • Communication – individual, team and stakeholder.
  • Emotional intelligence.
  • Uses data to inform decision making.
  • Prioritise, delegate and empower.
  • Adapt, innovate, create.
  • Define and raise standards of performance.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Employee-led diversity and inclusion networks that build community and provide education and advocacy
  • Annual charity and fundraising initiatives and volunteer days for employees to support local communities
  • Global employee sustainability initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint
  • Global fitness and trivia competitions to keep our bodies and minds sharp
  • Global wellbeing days for employees to relax and recharge
  • Monthly wellbeing webinars and training to support employee health and wellbeing

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Hard Skills & Tools
KPI trackingperformance managementcoachingtraining programme designchange project oversightdata analysissales methodologyrecruitmentinduction programme designtarget delivery
Soft Skills
leadershipcollaborationcommunicationemotional intelligencemotivationrelationship buildingadaptabilityinnovationdelegationempowerment