Sales Operations & Performance Manager
Meet Our Recruiter
Max Sanders
About the Role
Sales Operations & Performance Manager
The Opportunity
If you've spent years fine-tuning someone else's incentive plan, this is your chance to decide what the next one looks like.
The brief is clear. Review the current sales reward model across European markets, keep what works, fix what doesn't, and build new where it's needed. You won't be administering schemes. You'll be designing them, and proving whether they work.
You'll sit where sales leadership, finance, HR and data meet, which means your work is seen at senior level and your recommendations carry real weight.
The Role
You'll start with an honest review of the existing model. From there, the shape of the work is yours.
- Run sessions with senior sales leaders to shape future reward approaches, and make the case for change when the data says so.
- Rework or replace elements of the current model, including designs built from scratch.
- Build consistent incentive governance across European markets, with targets and KPIs tied directly to business direction.
- Tailor plans to different roles, sales channels and countries, so each scheme fits the people it's meant to motivate.
- Measure whether schemes are actually changing behaviour and results, and adjust them when they aren't.
- Shape target-tracking reports and dashboards with IT, HR systems and data teams, so sales teams can see exactly where they stand.
- Bring an outside view of how leading companies approach sales pay, and use it to challenge internal assumptions.
This is a role for someone who wants their fingerprints on the plan itself, not just the spreadsheet behind it.
What You'll Need
- 5+ years shaping sales compensation and performance steering, in a sales or commercial excellence function or in consulting.
- Hands-on experience designing or rebuilding a significant incentive plan.
- Depth in quota setting, KPI design and variable pay.
- Confidence using performance data to test whether a scheme is working.
- Experience leading workshops with senior sales stakeholders, including pushing back when needed.
- Fluent English.
How to Apply
Interested? Get in touch with the MAM Gruppe team for a confidential conversation. Your CV doesn't need to be up to date. Send what you have, or just give us a call.