AddressAbout us:
YuLife is an award-winning InsurTech company and an employee benefit provider.
We’re the world’s first “lifestyle insurance” company. While other insurers are there for people at the point of death or illness, we engage with people every day to help them live better lives.
To do that, we’ve built an award-winning app that rewards people for building healthy habits. It includes the best wellbeing and digital health tools in the world.
Customers can earn vouchers from great brands like Amazon, Tesco or ASOS for doing simple things like walking or practicing mindfulness. They can even do good by planting trees or cleaning the oceans from the app.
Our clients include Co-Op, Tesco, Capital One and Fujitsu, and we’ve been ranked the #1 employee benefit in the UK on Trustpilot. More recently, YuLife was recognized by CX Insurance Awards as ‘Best Insurtech 2024’ and the 8th Fastest Growing Technology Company in the UK in the prestigious 2023 Deloitte Technology Fast 50.
The role:
As a sales leader, you will play a pivotal role in driving revenue growth and maximising our sales team potential. This position requires exceptional leadership, effective communication, and a passion for achieving sales targets. You will work closely with the leadership team to ensure targets are being met, through maximising sales opportunities in Japan.
You’ll have specific responsibility for:
- Formulating and implementing a comprehensive sales strategy that aligns with the company's goals and aggressive revenue aspirations.
- Taking a proactive leadership role in guiding and developing a Tokyo-based team.
- Collaborating effectively with colleagues across Marketing, Sales, Revenue Operations, and Product development to craft and execute an aggressive growth strategy for the region.
- Driving team excellence by setting realistic objectives, tracking progress, and addressing any disparities in performance promptly.
- Overseeing and nurturing relationships with high-potential clients, providing mentorship to sales personnel on navigating these critical engagements
Tools:
- Utilising and becoming proficient in the sales tools and technologies provided to streamline sales processes, track customer interactions, and enhance productivity. Notably Gong and Hubspot, ensure this is widely used and tracked amongst your team members.
- Collaborate with the sales operations team to optimise the use of CRM systems, sales analytics platforms, and other relevant tools for efficient sales pipeline management.
- Provide feedback on tools and suggest improvements to enhance the sales team's effectiveness and efficiency.
Communication:
- Collaborate closely with other members of the sales pod team to achieve team goals.
- Collaborate with marketing and product teams to communicate customer feedback, market trends, and competitive insights to enhance product positioning and sales strategies.
- Ensure support and effective 1:1 in place, making time for pipeline & activity reviews, sales coaching and moving deals forward
Values:
- Demonstrate a customer-centric approach by consistently providing exceptional service and addressing customer needs.
- Embrace teamwork, foster a positive work environment, and actively contribute to a culture of collaboration, trust, accountability and vulnerability.
The ideal candidate will have:
- Successful previous experience as a Head of Sales/Sales Manager, consistently meeting or exceeding targets
- Proven ability to drive the sales process from plan to close
- Excellent mentoring, coaching and people management skills
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to engage with customers and internal stakeholders effectively.
- Proven ability to work collaboratively in a team-oriented environment.
- Familiarity with sales tools, CRM systems, and other sales technologies is desirable.
- Results-driven mindset with the ability to meet or exceed sales targets.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to adapt to changing business needs.
- High level of professionalism, integrity, accountability, urgency and intelligence.
- Demonstrated ability to learn quickly and continuously improve.
Together, we will drive growth and deliver exceptional value to our customers.
What you’ll get:
We like to give more than we take so we offer a competitive benefits package.
Our framework and principles around hybrid working at YuLife.
Here at YuLife our values encompasses Love Being Yu and as a result we’re committed to diversity and inclusion. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, colour, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, disability or any other protected class.
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