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Manager, Sales Development Enterprise UK

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In-Office
London, England, GBR
Mid level
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London, England, GBR
Mid level
Lead and scale an outbound Enterprise SDR team in the UK, designing target account strategy, hiring and coaching SDRs, implementing KPIs and operating rhythms, partnering with Marketing and AEs, and ensuring CRM and sales engagement tooling drives high-quality pipeline and quota attainment.
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About Airwallex

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 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 2,700 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 to see it in full.

 
How you'll make impact

Build and lead the outbound SDR function for Airwallex’s UK Enterprise business, creating qualified pipeline across Embedded Finance, Payments and Spend Management. You’ll set the strategy for target accounts, outbound sequences and multi-channel prospecting, then coach the team to execute with consistency and strong commercial judgment.

  • Build the outbound SDR strategy for UK Enterprise, from target account selection and sequencing through to multi-channel prospecting and qualified pipeline creation.

  • Hire, onboard and develop early-career sales talent, while establishing the operating rhythms, enablement and accountability that support high performance.

  • Use Salesforce, Outreach and related tooling to track activity, conversion and pipeline metrics, diagnose performance gaps and continuously improve how the team operates.

  • Partner with Enterprise Account Executives, Marketing and People & Talent to align territory plans, campaigns, qualification standards, hiring priorities and progression paths.

  • Improve the handover from SDR-generated opportunities to Enterprise AEs, supporting strong conversion from qualified opportunity through to revenue.

You'll work from the London office three days a week.

What we're looking for

Essentials

  • 3+ years of experience managing an SDR or outbound sales development team, ideally in a high-growth SaaS, fintech or technology environment, with a track record of meeting or exceeding pipeline targets.

  • 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.

  • A 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 across activity, conversion and pipeline created.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • A 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 such as Chorus, Dialpad, Sales Navigator, ZoomInfo or similar to coach SDRs and refine targeting and messaging.

  • A passion for developing others, building an inclusive, high-performance culture and creating clear progression paths for SDRs into closing or other commercial roles.

You'll thrive here if
  • You have a track record of hitting your numbers, and you’re motivated by stretch goals.

  • You own the outcome and you don't wait for permission to fix what's broken.

  • You’re comfortable operating across time zones with a globally distributed team, including colleagues based in APAC and EMEA.

  • You're energized by change. Your grow happens in steps, not a straight line, and priorities shift as you learn.

  • You know when to align and when to just decide. Collaboration isn't a way to avoid accountability.

Learn more about your team

Enterprise Business is about more than closing deals. This team helps large, often multinational organizations solve complex financial challenges that go well beyond a single product decision — moving money globally, managing treasury operations, embedding financial services across borders, and replacing fragmented financial workflows with one global system built to scale. You’ll be helping customers understand what is possible when their financial operations work as one global system.

It's a team for strategic sellers with a builder mindset, who combine strategic thinking with deep product knowledge: comfortable with long deal cycles, multiple stakeholders, and the kind of autonomy that comes from being trusted to create value, shape the deal, and move complex opportunities forward rather than follow a rigid playbook. If you want to work on high-consequence deals that genuinely change how large businesses operate financially, this is the place to do it.

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Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.

Equal opportunity

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. 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.

Airwallex London, England Office

Airwallex London, UK Office

Labs House, 15-19 Bloomsbury Way, London, United Kingdom, WC1A 2TH

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Our London office is scaling fast. We're a 140+ strong team and growing, and our Sales team is right at the heart of it. The momentum is real: we're investing over $1bn into the region and $590m into the UK. Revenue is up 116% year on year and volumes have surged 226%, and we’ve only captured a fraction of what’s possible. That's where you come in. You'll be selling a world-class proven product into a market that's still wide open. Global heavyweights like McLaren Racing, Arsenal, Bolt, Qantas, and Carwow already run on Airwallex. For you, that means real ownership from the start, a role you'll scale, and scope that grows as fast as you can sell. It's a rare moment to join: proven product, open market, and a team going places

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