Business Development Lead
€60,000 - €80,000
Key Skills
Job Description
- Team leadership: Lead, coach, and develop a team of SDRs, BDRs, and AEs, setting clear expectations and holding the team accountable to a high-performance standard.
- Commercial ownership: Own the team's commercial number - new buyers acquired, conversion rate, and average deal size - reporting to the Head of Business Development on results, pipeline health, and priorities.
- Performance management: Drive output through weekly 1:1s, call reviews, and deal reviews, giving direct feedback that moves individual and team performance.
- Sales execution: Set the standard for pipeline management, CRM discipline, and consistent follow-up, ensuring high-quality execution across the team.
- Hiring and onboarding: Own hiring and onboarding for the team, ramping new reps quickly and building bench strength as the function scales.
- Strategy and improvement: Identify performance gaps, test new tactics, and improve the processes, tooling, and reporting that accelerate customer acquisition.
- Playbook development: Turn wins, losses, and market learnings into repeatable messaging, processes, and best practices the team executes against.
- Cross-functional collaboration: Partner with Growth, Product, Operations, and Marketing to remove blockers and feed customer and market insight back into the business.
- 3–6 years in B2B sales or commercial roles, including time in a fast-moving, tech-driven environment.
- Direct experience leading, coaching, or mentoring a sales team, with concrete examples of reps you've developed.
- A consistent track record of hitting or exceeding commercial targets.
- Experience designing and rolling out sales tactics or processes that measurably improved commercial performance.
- A strong analytical approach - comfortable using pipeline and conversion data to direct where the team spends its time.
- Hands-on with a modern sales CRM such as HubSpot, and able to hold a team to CRM discipline.
- Stakeholder management skills - able to align Growth, Product, and Marketing on shared acquisition goals without formal authority.
- Base salary: €60,000 – €80,000 (depending on experience) + commission plan designed to reward results
- 26 days of annual leave + 4 personal days
- Attractive equity package
- Pension contributions
- Annual learning & development budget
- Office-led culture with hybrid flexibility
- Dog-friendly offices
- Home-office setup package
- Office socials and annual company-wide offsite
Qogita [Ko-gi-ta] is revolutionizing wholesale procurement. We provide a one-stop shop for branded products, available in a single click at competitive prices. Our vision is to build the world's leading global wholesale trading hub, empowering efficient distribution of goods. We didn't just improve wholesale - we reinvented it.
We're one of the fastest-growing B2B companies globally, backed by top investors behind companies like Facebook, Etsy, and Shopify.
Our tight-knit, highly motivated team thrives on curiosity and impact. Everyone contributes hands-on, takes initiative, and drives results. We value a strong work ethic, smart prioritization, and a relentless focus on excellence.
Core Responsibilities
You will lead a team of SDRs and AEs to drive customer acquisition across European markets while owning commercial results. You are responsible for setting sales standards, managing performance, and collaborating cross-functionally to optimize the acquisition engine.
Requirements
Candidates must have 3–6 years of experience in B2B sales or commercial roles within tech-driven environments. You need a proven track record of hitting commercial targets and direct experience in leading or coaching sales teams.
Benefits
- Commission plan
- 26 days of annual leave
- 4 personal days
- Equity package
- Pension contributions
- Annual learning & development budget
- Hybrid flexibility
- Dog-friendly offices
- Home-office setup package
- Office socials
- Annual company-wide offsite
About Qogita
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet
Company size: 51-200 employees
Qogita is a leading global wholesale B2B platform that offers a wide variety of products, brands and categories across geographies. We cater to a large range of organizations, from small retailers to large brands. With Qogita, you can generate higher margins and greater turnover whilst reducing labor cost by using our technology infrastructure. We're a technology company that simplifies business-to-business trade. Most recently we have raised €80m in Series B Funding, with our investors being the backers of companies such as Facebook, Pinterest, Linkedin and Twitch.