Sales Manager (2 month contract)
Posted Today by ivee
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Sales Manager at ivee involves scaling a team of warm callers and building a cold calling engine within a fast-paced AI upskilling platform. The position is a 2-month full-time contract focused on converting warm leads into revenue while managing a high-performing calling team. The candidate will also be responsible for creating training materials, optimizing call infrastructure, and implementing outbound strategies. Proven experience in building cold calling teams and AI fluency are essential for success in this role.
Key Responsibilities:
- Turn warm leads into revenue by building and executing a system to call 10,000+ warm leads.
- Build a high-performing calling team by hiring, onboarding, and managing freelance cold callers.
- Own scripts, training, and conversion by writing and iterating call scripts and building training materials.
- Set up the infrastructure properly by ensuring Aircall is optimized and logging calls in Attio (CRM).
- Build and scale cold calling strategy by designing and implementing outbound strategies.
Key Skills:
- Proven experience building and scaling cold calling teams.
- Experience hiring, managing, and replacing underperforming sales reps.
- Strong track record of driving revenue through phone sales.
- Deep understanding of commission and incentive structures.
- Experience creating scripts, training, and sales processes.
- Comfortable operating in high-volume, high-pressure environments.
- Ability to work directly with founders and execute fast.
- AI fluency is mandatory.
- Must be able to build automations (e.g. n8n).
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London Area
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
We're looking for someone to scale a team of warm callers. 2 month full-time contract. ivee is an AI upskilling platform focused on closing the AI adoption gap. We train non-technical teams on AI tools and workflows so they actually use them. Clients include Lucky Saint, Red Bull, and Virgin Media. We're the UK Government's primary AI upskilling events partner and recently raised a $1M seed round backed by Techstars, and angels from Balderton Microsoft AI, and Steven Bartlett. We move FAST. You must be able to do the same. We are sitting on 10,000+ warm inbound phone numbers that haven't been called. These have come in in the last 3 weeks alone. At the same time, we're ready to build a cold calling engine from scratch. This role owns both.
What you'll do
- 1. Turn warm leads into revenue - immediate priority
- Build and execute a system to call 10,000+ warm leads (build a team)
- Prioritise, segment, and structure outreach for maximum conversion
- Drive volume and quality
- 2. Build a high-performing calling team
- Hire, onboard, and manage freelance cold callers
- Set compensation + commission structures
- Create a high-performance culture (closers only)
- Monitor performance ruthlessly - double down on winners, cut underperformers
- 3. Own scripts, training, and conversion
- Write and iterate call scripts
- Build training materials and onboarding flows
- Continuously improve conversion rates
- 4. Set up the infrastructure properly
- Ensure Aircall is fully optimised
- Ensure calls, outcomes, and revenue are correctly logged in Attio (CRM)
- Build reporting on performance, pipeline, and revenue
- 5. Build and scale cold calling strategy
- Design and implement outbound strategy
- Decide whether to use freelancers, agencies, or both
- Work directly with founders to test and scale what works
What we need from you
- Proven experience building and scaling cold calling teams
- Experience hiring, managing, and replacing underperforming sales reps
- Strong track record of driving revenue through phone sales
- Deep understanding of commission + incentive structures
- Experience creating scripts, training, and sales processes
- Comfortable operating in high-volume, high-pressure environments
- Ability to work directly with founders and execute fast
- AI fluency is mandatory
- Must be able to build automations (e.g. n8n)
- Must demo this in interview
- If not AI-fluent, this role is not a fit.
Salary
We hate to be that annoying startup that doesn't disclose salary… but we are flexible. We will pay you fairly for your experience level but do not want to lose any top tier applicants by putting a number here.