Enterprise Sales Manager, Platforms

    Adyen

    🇩🇪 Berlin; Munich
    SaaS
    Hybrid
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    Work Type

    On-site

    Vertical

    SaaS

    Source

    greenhouse

    Language

    🇩🇪 German

    About this role

    This is Adyen

    Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition. For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.

    Enterprise Sales Manager, Platforms 

    As an Enterprise Sales Manager focused on Adyen’s Platform business (e.g. Lightspeed, Eposnow, Fresha, Mews, Qonto, Pennylane, Doctolib, etc.), you will drive new revenue by building and expanding strategic reseller, channel, and platform partnerships. You will leverage Adyen’s global financial technology platform to empower enterprise-level platforms, marketplaces, and software providers to embed payments and financial services at scale.

    This role will focus on net-new customer acquisition. You bring experience selling complex platform solutions, navigating long sales cycles, and developing high-impact partner ecosystems. You will open new doors, build strategic alliances, and influence how platforms integrate, commercialize, and scale with Adyen.

    What You’ll Do

    • Own the full enterprise sales cycle from strategic prospecting through deal closure for merchants across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
    • Identify, prioritize, and unloc

    Selling Motion

    Sales Cycle

    Enterprise

    6–18 month cycles, complex multi-stakeholder deals

    Prospecting

    Channel / Partner

    Sell through partners, resellers, or alliances

    Buyer Persona

    C-Suite

    Selling to executive decision-makers

    Territory

    Greenfield

    Build territory from scratch — net-new logos

    Requirements at a Glance

    Bachelor's Degree·Required
    Prospecting·Required skill

    Typical Day — Sales Manager

    Executive deal support3–5/week
    Forecast & commit2×/week
    Strategic deal coaching3–5/week

    Estimates based on role type and selling motion — actual may vary by company.

    SaaS — Interview Intel

    Typical Sales Cycle

    30–90 days (SMB) · 3–9 months (Mid-Market) · 6–18 months (Enterprise)

    Common Buyer Objections

    • "We're locked into a contract with [competitor]"
    • "We built something in-house already"
    • "We don't have budget until next quarter"
    • "Our team won't adopt another tool"

    Key Industry Metrics

    ARR / MRRNet Revenue Retention (NRR)CAC Payback PeriodLogo Churn vs Revenue ChurnACV (Avg Contract Value)Magic Number

    Hot Topics to Reference

    • • AI-native product disruption
    • • PLG vs sales-led motion debate
    • • Vertical SaaS consolidation
    • • Usage-based pricing models

    Use these insights to speak the buyer's language in interviews.

    Tags

    Sales
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    How do you coach underperforming reps?

    Template question
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    Describe your forecasting methodology.

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    How do you structure onboarding for new hires?

    Template question
    Research Adyen's product, recent news, and key competitors
    Prepare metrics: quota attainment %, average deal size, win rate
    Practice a 2-minute product demo pitch for a mock discovery call
    Review the job description and map your experience to each requirement
    Role Insights

    This leadership position involves both strategic planning and hands-on coaching of the sales team.

    SaaS sales roles typically involve consultative selling with longer deal cycles.

    The German market values structured sales processes and typically offers strong base salaries alongside performance incentives.

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