About the role

  • Define and execute commercial strategies aligned with the company’s vision and growth objectives.
  • Oversee sales and marketing teams to drive revenue, market share, and brand awareness.
  • Identify and pursue new business opportunities, strategic partnerships, and market expansion initiatives.
  • Ensure customer-centric strategies are in place to enhance satisfaction, loyalty, and lifetime value.
  • Work closely with product, operations, and finance to align commercial goals across departments.
  • Build and lead high-performing commercial teams, fostering a culture of innovation and accountability.

Requirements

  • Track record: previous experience of building high-performing teams within scale up environment, preferably in fintech, banking or tech sector.
  • Leadership skills: The ability to inspire and motivate geographically dispersed sales teams to perform at their very best, along with the skill to attract and hire A-grade sales talent.
  • Communication skills: Strong listening, presentation, and questioning skills, with the ability to simplify complex topics for easy understanding.
  • Ability to build rapport: The ability to quickly build strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels within an organization and to be at ease meeting senior C-level executives.
  • Energy and enthusiasm: High energy and enthusiasm to help disrupt the banking landscape.
  • Coachability: A willingness to learn, strive for excellence, and continually invest in improving professional skills, standards, and abilities.
  • Strong inner drive and self-motivation: The willingness to challenge oneself, step outside the comfort zone, and be naturally self-motivated and self-driven to succeed.
  • Inner resilience & robustness: Strong resilience and mental toughness to overcome rejection and setbacks that can happen in a sales role.
  • Ethics and integrity: Operating with high standards of ethics and integrity.
  • Mental agility: The ability to think on one's feet and make intelligent decisions in real-time without getting flustered.
  • Ability to perform under pressure: The capacity to remain calm and work well under pressure.
  • Ability to prioritize: The skill to work smart and ruthlessly prioritize time without getting distracted by low-value tasks.

Benefits

  • We're flexible – We support a culture of flexibility which allows our employees to achieve a strong work-life balance.
  • Offices – Work in a way that works for you – whether that’s in the Amsterdam office, at home, or hybrid.
  • Holiday – 27 days of annual leave per year, plus public holidays.
  • Work abroad – You have the flexibility to work outside of the Netherlands for up to 30 days in a rolling 12-month period.
  • Socials – Regular social events open to all.
  • Holiday swap – Option to swap your bank holidays to any other day of your choice.
  • Wellbeing – long term disability cover and accident cover.
  • Bigger than ClearBank – Take a couple of days per year to do something that matters to you.
  • Pension – We offer generous pension contribution without mandatory employee contribution.
  • Expense coverage – Mobile phone allowance and travel cost reimbursement.
  • Family – Enhanced family-friendly leave.
  • Personal development – We offer personal development budgets, opportunities to take part in role-related training and unlimited LinkedIn Learning.

Job title

Senior Director, Sales – Europe

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

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