Telesales Team Lead

Hiring: NairobiCity Newsroom
Status
Open
Source
MyJobMag
• Job Type Full Time
• Qualification BA/BSc/HND
• Experience 3 years
• Location Nairobi
• Job Field Sales and Business Development
• Lead the telesales team to consistently achieve and exceed monthly and quarterly sales targets.
• Drive improvements in lead-to-sale and appointment-to-sale conversion rates.
• Monitor team sales performance and identify opportunities to improve conversion at each stage of the sales funnel.
• Set daily and weekly performance expectations and ensure the team remains on track to achieve targets.
• Identify opportunities for upselling, cross-selling, and add-on sales.
• Monitor revenue and units sold per executive and take corrective action where performance is below expectations.
• Work closely with Sales, Marketing, Customer Experience, and other relevant teams to improve lead quality and conversion.
• Ensure leads are contacted promptly and managed effectively throughout the sales cycle.
• Drive adherence to agreed lead response and follow-up SLAs, including 24–48-hour follow-up requirements.
• Monitor contact rates, call attempts, appointments, conversions, and lead ageing.
• Ensure no leads are unnecessarily left unattended, unworked, or without a defined next action.
• Analyze lead performance by source, campaign, product, agent, and customer segment to identify conversion opportunities.
• Provide feedback on lead quality and recommend improvements to lead allocation and targeting.
• Lead, motivate, and develop a high-performing telesales team.
• Conduct regular one-on-one coaching, performance reviews, call listening, and side-by-side coaching sessions.
• Use call recordings, CRM data, QA results, and sales performance data to identify individual coaching opportunities.
• Develop targeted performance improvement plans for underperforming team members.
• Recognize and replicate best practices from high-performing sales executives.
• Build a culture of accountability, ownership, continuous improvement, and customer focus.
• Ensure new team members receive appropriate onboarding, product knowledge, sales process, and systems training.
• Ensure effective utilization of CRM and other telesales systems.
• Monitor key contact-center metrics including: Calls made per hour Contact rate Average talk time Follow-up adherence Dialer abandonment rate Lead response time Agent productivity
• Calls made per hour
• Contact rate
• Average talk time
• Follow-up adherence
• Dialer abandonment rate
• Lead response time
• Agent productivity
• Ensure accurate and timely lead dispositions and customer information within the CRM.
• Maintain high standards of CRM data quality and ensure all customer interactions are properly documented.
• Monitor team adherence to work schedules, attendance, and productivity expectations.
• Identify system, process, and workflow challenges affecting telesales productivity and escalate or resolve them appropriately.
• Ensure the team delivers professional, accurate, and customer-centric sales interactions.
• Partner with Quality Assurance to monitor and improve call quality and sales compliance.
• Maintain agreed team QA and CSAT targets.
• Ensure sales executives accurately communicate product features, pricing, financing terms, payment obligations, and relevant customer information.
• Monitor customer complaints and escalations originating from telesales and implement corrective actions.
• Reduce sales cancellations, returns, and avoidable customer complaints through improved sales quality.
• Prepare and present regular telesales performance reports covering sales, conversion, productivity, revenue, quality, and customer outcomes.
• Use data to identify performance trends, bottlenecks, and opportunities for improvement.
• Conduct daily and weekly performance reviews with the team.
• Develop and implement action plans to close performance gaps.
• Provide management with insights and recommendations on lead quality, campaign performance, sales productivity, and customer behavior.
• Maintain accurate forecasts of expected sales and pipeline performance.
• Team sales target achievement
• Lead-to-sale conversion rate
• Appointment-to-sale conversion rate
• Units sold per executive
• Revenue generated
• Upsell, cross-sell, and add-on penetration
• Calls made per hour
• Contact rate
• Average talk time
• Follow-up SLA adherence
• Lead response time
• Schedule and attendance adherence
• Dialer abandonment rate
• QA score
• Customer Satisfaction (CSAT)
• Complaint and escalation rate
• Cancellation and return rate
• Coaching completion
• Individual agent performance improvement
• Team engagement and accountability
• Performance management of underperforming executives
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Sales, Marketing, Customer Experience, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in telesales, outbound sales, contact center, or call-center operations, with at least 1–2 years in a supervisory or team leadership position.
• Demonstrated experience managing and achieving sales and conversion targets.
• Experience managing outbound sales teams in a high-volume environment.
• Strong experience with CRM and contact-center/dialer systems
• Strong understanding of sales funnels, lead management, conversion optimization, and pipeline management.
• Job Type Full Time • Qualification BA/BSc/HND • Experience 3 years • Location Nairobi • Job Field Sales and Business Development • Lead the telesales team to consistently achieve and exceed monthly and quarterly sales targets. • Drive improvements in lead-to-sale and appointment-to-sale conversion rates. • Monitor team sales performance and identify opportunities to improve conversion at each stage of the sales funnel. • Set daily and weekly performance expectations and ensure the team remains on track to achieve targets. • Identify opportunities for upselling, cross-selling, and add-on sales. • Monitor revenue and units sold per executive and take corrective action where performance is below expectations. • Work closely with Sales, Marketing, Customer Experience, and other relevant teams to improve lead quality and conversion. • Ensure leads are contacted promptly and managed effectively throughout the sales cycle. • Drive adherence to agreed lead response and follow-up SLAs, including 24–48-hour follow-up requirements. • Monitor contact rates, call attempts, appointments, conversions, and lead ageing. • Ensure no leads are unnecessarily left unattended, unworked, or without a defined next action. • Analyze lead performance by source, campaign, product, agent, and customer segment to identify conversion opportunities. • Provide feedback on lead quality and recommend improvements to lead allocation and targeting. • Lead, motivate, and develop a high-performing telesales team. • Conduct regular one-on-one coaching, performance reviews, call listening, and side-by-side coaching sessions. • Use call recordings, CRM data, QA results, and sales performance data to identify individual coaching opportunities. • Develop targeted performance improvement plans for underperforming team members. • Recognize and replicate best practices from high-performing sales executives. • Build a culture of accountability, ownership, continuous improvement, and customer focus. • Ensure new team members receive appropriate onboarding, product knowledge, sales process, and systems training. • Ensure effective utilization of CRM and other telesales systems. • Monitor key contact-center metrics including: Calls made per hour Contact rate Average talk time Follow-up adherence Dialer abandonment rate Lead response time Agent productivity • Calls made per hour • Contact rate • Average talk time • Follow-up adherence • Dialer abandonment rate • Lead response time • Agent productivity • Ensure accurate and timely lead dispositions and customer information within the CRM. • Maintain high standards of CRM data quality and ensure all customer interactions are properly documented. • Monitor team adherence to work schedules, attendance, and productivity expectations. • Identify system, process, and workflow challenges affecting telesales productivity and escalate or resolve them appropriately. • Ensure the team delivers professional, accurate, and customer-centric sales interactions. • Partner with Quality Assurance to monitor and improve call quality and sales compliance. • Maintain agreed team QA and CSAT targets. • Ensure sales executives accurately communicate product features, pricing, financing terms, payment obligations, and relevant customer information. • Monitor customer complaints and escalations originating from telesales and implement corrective actions. • Reduce sales cancellations, returns, and avoidable customer complaints through improved sales quality. • Prepare and present regular telesales performance reports covering sales, conversion, productivity, revenue, quality, and customer outcomes. • Use data to identify performance trends, bottlenecks, and opportunities for improvement. • Conduct daily and weekly performance reviews with the team. • Develop and implement action plans to close performance gaps. • Provide management with insights and recommendations on lead quality, campaign performance, sales productivity, and customer behavior. • Maintain accurate forecasts of expected sales and pipeline performance. • Team sales target achievement • Lead-to-sale conversion rate • Appointment-to-sale conversion rate • Units sold per executive • Revenue generated • Upsell, cross-sell, and add-on penetration • Calls made per hour • Contact rate • Average talk time • Follow-up SLA adherence • Lead response time • Schedule and attendance adherence • Dialer abandonment rate • QA score • Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) • Complaint and escalation rate • Cancellation and return rate • Coaching completion • Individual agent performance improvement • Team engagement and accountability • Performance management of underperforming executives • Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Sales, Marketing, Customer Experience, or a related field. • 3+ years of experience in telesales, outbound sales, contact center, or call-center operations, with at least 1–2 years in a supervisory or team leadership position. • Demonstrated experience managing and achieving sales and conversion targets. • Experience managing outbound sales teams in a high-volume environment. • Strong experience with CRM and contact-center/dialer systems • Strong understanding of sales funnels, lead management, conversion optimization, and pipeline management.

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