Sales Manager, Europe

1 Month ago • 7 Years + • Sales

Job Summary

Job Description

Whatnot is seeking a Sales Manager for Europe to capitalize on existing growth and build upon the platform's foundation. The role involves building and leading an international sales team, driving growth as a strategic executive, and collaborating with European leadership. The Sales Manager will own and execute a sales strategy, working with Marketing, Product, Finance, and Operations to drive revenue. Responsibilities include building a strong sales engine, improving sales operations, implementing predictable sales roadmaps, driving accountability throughout the sales lifecycle, and using data to modify go-to-market strategies and forecasts. The role requires a deep understanding of customer use cases and product capabilities to solve business problems, along with driving operational excellence and accountability through data and OKRs. A key aspect is developing talent, acting as a player-coach and mentor.
Must have:
  • Minimum 7+ years of sales experience
  • 4+ years in executive-level management
  • Experience building/leading high-performance sales teams in EMEA
  • Revenue leader with a track record of scaling sales teams
  • Experience leading sales in social commerce or marketplaces
  • Expertise in operating marketplace-driven businesses
  • Experience in high-growth and startup environments
  • Strong developer of talent
Good to have:
  • Experience managing both supply and demand
  • Demonstrated track record of driving innovation
  • Adapting to industry/market changes
  • Operates with speed, humility, and integrity
  • Passion for fashion/collectibles re-selling
Perks:
  • Flexible Time off Policy
  • Company-wide Holidays
  • Health Insurance options
  • Work From Home Support (allowances for setup, cell phone, internet)
  • Care benefits (wellness allowance, childcare allowance, family planning expenses)
  • Retirement/Pension plans
  • Monthly allowance to use the app
  • 16 weeks paid parental leave + gradual return to work

Job Details

🚀 Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot! 

Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love. We’re re-defining e-commerce by blending community, shopping, and entertainment into a community just for you. As a remote co-located team, we’re inspired by innovation and anchored in our values. With hubs in the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Germany, we’re building the future of online marketplaces—together.

From fashion, beauty, and electronics to rare collectibles like trading cards, comic books, and even live plants, our live auctions have something for everyone.

And we’re just getting started! As one of the fastest growing marketplaces, we’re looking for bold, forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas. Check out the latest Whatnot updates on our news and engineering blogs and join us as we enable anyone to turn their passion into a business, and bring people together through commerce.

💻  Role

Reporting to the Head of Categories and Expansion (Europe), our first Sales Manager will be responsible for capitalizing on Whatnot’s existing growth and building upon its foundation. Specific responsibilities include:

  • Building and leading an established and growing International sales team as a strategic executive driving growth
  • Serving and effectively working closely alongside the European leadership team to lead and conduct day-to-day business
  • Own and execute a sales strategy while working closely with key peers across Marketing, Product, Finance, and Operations, to drive a holistic revenue function for sellers of all sizes across our core categories
  • Build a strong sales engine; improve sales operations and utilize predictable, repeatable sales roadmaps, and effectively translate targets into specific actions for all levels of sales management
  • Drive accountability and key growth outcomes as it relates to the full sales life cycle
  • Harness data to drive and proactively modify a go-to-market playbook in order to implement accountability in forecasts and determine bookings and activities required to generate pipeline and velocity to achieve results
  • Maintain a deep understanding of customer use cases and product capabilities across the B2B and B2C motions in order to understand and solve customer business problems
  • Driving operational excellence and accountability to achieve results. Leveraging data, reporting, OKRs, and other best practices to ensure alignment at all levels.
  • Being a strong developer of talent; inspiring, a true player-coach and a mentor

Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of our London, UK hub.

👋  You

Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We’ve found that low ego, a growth mindset, and leaning into action and high impact goes a long way here.

As our first Sales Manager, Europe you should have a minimum of 7+ years of sales experience, 4+ years in executive-level management, with experience building and leading high-performance sales teams in EMEA. Plus;

  • A revenue leader with a track record of scaling a sales team in a high growth environment
  • Proven experience as a sales leader and experience leading sales in a social commerce, two-sided marketplace, and/or network effect consumer business
  • Expertise in operating businesses driven by marketplace dynamics; experience in managing both supply and demand 
  • Experience in high-growth environments at scale and entrepreneurial, startup environments
  • Prior experience building, scaling, leading, and developing sales teams
  • Demonstrated track record of driving innovation and successfully adapting to changes in the industry or market
  • Operates with relentless speed and velocity, while maintaining a high sense of humility and integrity
  • Passionate about the fashion and/or collectibles re-selling space, or has an interest in becoming passionate 

🎁  Benefits

  • Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a spring and winter break)
  • Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
  • Work From Home Support
    • Home office setup allowance
    • Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
  • Care benefits
    • Monthly allowance for wellness
    • Annual allowance towards Childcare
    • Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
  • Retirement; Pension plans internationally
  • Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
    • All Whatnauts are expected to develop a deep understanding of our product. We're passionate about building the best user experience, and all employees are expected to use Whatnot as both a buyer and a seller as part of their job (our dogfooding budget makes this fun and easy!).
  • Parental Leave
    • 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work *company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence.

💛  EOE

Whatnot is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, parental status, disability status, or any other status protected by local law. We believe that our work is better and our company culture is improved when we encourage, support, and respect the different skills and experiences represented within our workforce.

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