Inbound Sales Development Team Lead, EMEA

AVEVA is creating software trusted by over 90% of leading industrial companies.

Inbound Sales Development Team Lead, EMEA

Location: London, Frankfurt or Madrid (Hybrid, 50% working time at the office)

Employment Type: Full-time permanent

Key responsibilities

• Lead and manage the day-to-day activities of the inbound SDR team, ensuring timely follow-up on marketing leads, adherence to SLAs, and consistent flow of quality opportunities to Sales.
• Define, monitor, and enforce operational standards across lead qualification, outreach cadence, hand-off protocols, and CRM data quality.
• Track team performance: set KPIs, forecast pipeline, identify bottlenecks, and implement performance improvements.
• Coach and develop SDRs through regular 1:1s, performance feedback, onboarding, and training; foster a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
• Drive operational excellence by creating and standardizing lead‑engagement materials, outreach sequences, and discovery frameworks.
• Partner cross‑functionally with Sales and Marketing to optimize inbound funnel performance, ensuring high conversion rates and healthy opportunity progression.
• Maintain clear analytics and reporting: build dashboards, analyze team metrics, and share actionable insights with leadership.

Essential requirements

• Proven experience leading high-volume inbound SDR or sales development teams in a B2B environment (SaaS, industrial tech, or similar), with measurable success in pipeline generation and management.
• Strong business acumen, with a solid grasp of lead-to-opportunity workflows, qualification frameworks (e.g., BANT, MEDDPICC), and how SDR output impacts revenue.
• Exceptional leadership, coaching, and communication skills; adept at developing early-career professionals and building a motivated, results‑driven team culture.
• Process‑oriented and analytical, with experience designing and scaling operational workflows, and performance metrics/reporting.
• Skilled in modern SDR technology stacks, including CRM (Salesforce), sales engagement tools (Outreach, Salesloft, HubSpot), and lead intelligence platforms (ZoomInfo, LinkedIn Sales Navigator).
• Strong cross‑functional collaborator, able to influence and align Sales and Marketing leadership around shared pipeline goals and performance outcomes.
• Proactive, goal‑oriented, and adaptable leader who thrives in evolving, fast‑paced environments, and drives continuous improvement through accountability and execution.

UK Benefits include:

Flexible benefits fund, emergency leave days, adoption leave, 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), pension, life cover, private medical insurance, parental leave, education assistance program.

Hybrid working

By default, employees are expected to be in their local AVEVA office three days a week, but some positions are fully office‑based. Roles supporting particular customers or markets are sometimes remote.

Hiring process

Interested? Great! Get started by submitting your cover letter and CV through our application portal. AVEVA is committed to recruiting and retaining people with disabilities. Please let us know in advance if you need reasonable support during your application process. Find out more: https://www.aveva.com/en/about/careers/hiring-process

AVEVA requires all successful applicants to undergo and pass a drug screening and comprehensive background check before they start employment. Background checks will be conducted in accordance with local laws and may, subject to those laws, include proof of educational attainment, employment history verification, proof of work authorization, criminal records, identity verification, credit check. Certain positions dealing with sensitive and/or third‑party personal data may involve additional background check criteria.

AVEVA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to being an exemplary employer with an inclusive culture, developing a workplace environment where all our employees are treated with dignity and respect. We value diversity and the expertise that people from different backgrounds bring to our business. AVEVA provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities where appropriate. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify your recruiter. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case‑by‑case basis.