Sales Development Team Lead - French Speaker

SDR Team Lead (French-speaking)

📍 Barcelona | On-site🗣 French required | English fluent

At SumUp, we help small businesses win with simple, powerful tech used by 4M+ merchants worldwide.

We’re scaling our outbound engine in Barcelona. The base is there. Now it’s about raising the level and setting a real pace.

This is not a “manage from distance” role. You lead from the front.

🚀 What You’ll Do

Lead, coach, and push a team of SDRs on outbound pipeline

Stay hands-on: cold calls, messaging, sequences, objections

Build pipeline and drive daily execution

Define territory, accounts, and outbound approach

Spot gaps fast and fix them

Work closely with Head of Sales to scale the team

Set the standard on intensity and output

You’re in the trenches. Driving, not observing.

🧠 Who This Is For

Outbound sales experience + some leadership exposure

Strong in cold calling, sequences, objection handling

French fluent + English solid

Hands-on, numbers-driven, ownership mindset

Executes fast, doesn’t overthink

Can bring structure without slowing things down

💡 Why SumUp

Real impact: build, not inherit

High ownership, low bureaucracy

Close to decisions and strategy

Performance-driven, fast growth

About SumUp

We believe in the everyday hero.

Small business owners are at the core of everything we do. Across Europe, South America, and the US, we build simple, powerful tools to help them run and grow.

We hire people who take ownership, move fast, and raise the bar.

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