Hybrid Sales & Service Team Lead

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About the role

  • Sales & Service Team Lead managing a team of sales and account management professionals at Rated People. Driving performance metrics in a fast-paced sales environment with a focus on customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and motivate: Direct a team of 6 sales and account management professionals, driving high daily energy and focus.
  • Run the floor: Lead daily stand-ups, morning meetings, and "buzz" sessions to keep the team engaged, informed, and aligned on daily targets.
  • Manage activity: Oversee high-velocity phone activity, ensuring the team maintains expected dial rates, talk times, and daily outreach routines.
  • Uphold call quality: Conduct regular call monitoring and quality assurance (QA) checks to ensure that all conversations consistently meet our high standards for compliance, tone, and commercial effectiveness.
  • Track metrics: Monitor and report on core KPIs such as conversion rates, call volumes, retention targets, and customer satisfaction.
  • Drive accountability: Maintain high visibility of team performance. Coach through performance gaps and celebrate wins.
  • Ensure data hygiene: Guarantee that pipeline data, CRM logs, and account notes are accurately and consistently maintained by the team.
  • Bridge the gap: Oversee the end-to-end customer lifecycle, ensuring smooth handoffs between the sales side and the account management/service side.
  • Act as an escalation point: Provide live support on the floor for complex customer queries, sales objections, or difficult retention conversations.
  • Drive revenue: Help the team identify incremental business opportunities, embedding cross-sell and upsell awareness into everyday account management calls.
  • Develop talent: Conduct regular call listening, side-by-side coaching, and constructive 1-to-1 feedback sessions.
  • Train and onboard: Coordinate the onboarding of new team members, getting them up to speed quickly and confidently on the phones.
  • Foster culture: Encourage a culture of resilience, structural discipline, and continuous improvement across the desk.

Requirements

  • Proven management experience: A strong background as a Call Centre Manager, Sales Desk Manager, or Team Leader in a high-velocity, phone-based environment.
  • People leadership: Demonstrated success in managing, coaching, and motivating individuals who spend the majority of their day on the phone.
  • Metric-driven: Deep understanding of commercial KPIs, sales funnel conversions, and customer success principles.
  • Excellent communication: Strong verbal and written skills, with the ability to handle escalations calmly and command the attention of a sales and account management floor.
  • Highly organised: Able to manage multiple priorities, pivot quickly, and maintain order in a fast-paced setting.
  • Tech-savvy: Proficient in using CRM systems and interpreting data dashboards to make actionable, on-the-fly decisions.

Benefits

  • Hybrid working (2 days per week in our Shoreditch office)
  • 25 days’ holiday (plus one day for every year of service, capped at 30 days)
  • Strong and inclusive company culture we all shape and take ownership and pride in, including companywide events, surprise and delights, roundtables and culture clubs
  • Private medical insurance (including mental health and virtual GP)
  • Enhanced Parental leave
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Life assurance
  • Travel loans
  • Enhanced parental leave policy

Job title

Sales & Service Team Lead

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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