Partnership Sales Team Lead – DACH Market

Hallo

Factorial is looking for an exceptional Partnership Sales Team Lead to drive our partner-led growth in the DACH region. This is a unique opportunity to shape one of the most strategic markets in the company and lead a high-performing team at the intersection of sales partnerships and ecosystem strategy.
At Factorial we believe in developing great people holding a high performance bar and building partnerships that accelerate digitalisation for DACH this means building deep relationships with key ecosystems like DATEV Telekom Microsoft payroll and HR tech partners as well as our network of advisors bookkeepers and IT resellers.
If you are passionate about partnerships sales excellence and leading teams to outperform expectations wed love to meet you.

The Role

As the Partnership Sales Team Lead for DACH you will lead a team of 3 Account Executives and 2 SDRs responsible for converting partner-generated demand co-selling with strategic alliances and establishing Factorial as the go-to HR platform in the region.
You will orchestrate the partner-to-pipeline motion end to end: from building trust with partners and elevating their confidence in Factorial to guiding your team in converting high-intent partner-influenced opportunities. Youll help shape the GTM strategy for our strongest ecosystems (e.g. DATEV) ensuring alignment with marketing product alliances and operations.
You will be an essential part of building the performance culture within Partnerships developing talent raising the bar on execution and ensuring predictable scalable and high-quality sales outcomes.

What Will You Be Doing

Team Leadership & Performance Culture

• Lead coach and develop a team of AEs and SDRs ensuring clarity ownership and consistently high performance.
• Build a culture of accountability feedback and continuous improvement reinforcing the behaviors and standards expected in our partner GTM.
• Design and deliver strategic coaching programs for both your team and partners to strengthen sales fundamentals and elevate ecosystem performance.
• Develop and execute ongoing training initiatives to ensure sales excellence MEDDPICC discipline and high-quality execution across the team.

Partner-Led Revenue Execution

• Guide your team in converting and closing partner-sourced and partner-influenced opportunities with excellence.
• Ensure consistent co-selling discipline with partners such as DATEV Telekom Microsoft IT resellers payroll software vendors bookkeepers and other ecosystem players.
• Maintain deep knowledge of partner motions and workflows to help your team tailor pitches and demos to each partner type.

Strategic Pipeline & Deal Management

• Ensure MEDDPICC is used consistently as a qualification and deal management framework across all partner opportunities.
• Own forecast accuracy and pipeline hygiene for your team ensuring predictable results and strong collaboration with the leadership team.
• Support AEs in structuring complex partner deals navigating multi-stakeholder environments and executing high-quality sales cycles.
• Drive improvements in qualification discovery value-selling and partner engagement.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with Partner Managers Marketing Product and Alliances to ensure alignment on GTM initiatives campaigns and partner engagements.
• Influence internal processes to improve partner experience sales velocity and operational efficiency.
• Act as the voice of the German market in cross-functional discussions ensuring we solve for local needs while scaling global solutions.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Identify gaps and opportunities in our partner motions and propose data-driven improvements.
• Contribute to strategic initiatives around DATEV integration Telekom and Microsoft alliances and new partner types.
• Bring creative ideas to unlock new partner channels or accelerate existing ones.

Your Profile

You are a natural leader with a commercial mindset and a passion for building and scaling high-performing teams. You thrive in a fast-paced ambitious environment and know how to balance execution discipline with partner empathy.
You bring:

• 2 years of leading sales teams (AEs/SDRs) in a high-velocity B2B SaaS or partnership-driven environment.
• Demonstrated experience using MEDDPICC to qualify forecast and manage complex deals.
• A strong understanding of partner motions co-selling or channel sales (experience with DATEV or similar ecosystems is a plus).
• Experience closing deals in consultative multi-stakeholder environments ideally in the context of HR payroll or accounting ecosystems.
• Strong analytical skills you use data to coach plan and make decisions.
• Exceptional communication skills: you build trust quickly with partners customers and internal teams.
• High ownership bias for action and resilience you raise the bar for yourself and your team.
• Creativity and initiative: you dont wait for answers you seek them.
• Native-level German and excellent English.

If youre excited about building the leading partner-led sales machine in the DACH region and want to play a pivotal role in shaping Factorials success in this ecosystem wed love to hear from you.

Perks of Being Part of Factorial

• High growth multicultural and friendly environment
• Save expenses with Cobee and get your salary in advance with Payflow
• Healthy life with Gympass and Alan as private health insurance
• Language classes with Preply
• Syra discounts Nora & Apeteat lunch
• Flexible schedules pet Friendly and no dress code!

Structured career paths to support your professional growth- we dont believe in dead ends.

Is this you! Come rock the world with us!

About us

At Factorial were building the leading business management software for companies of all sizes. Our platform centralizes key workflows across HR finance and operations freeing teams from manual processes so they can focus on what really matters: leading growing and taking care of their people.

With over 1200 employees across 7 markets we serve 700000 users and are one of Europes fastest-growing SaaS companies backed by top-tier investors and proudly headquartered in believe in bold goals radical ownership and inclusive collaboration. If youre excited to shape the future of business management technology wed love to meet you.

Our Values

• We own it: We take responsibility for every project.
• We learn and teach: We grow together through learning.
• We partner: We build trust and collaborate.
• We grow fast: We move fast learn and iterate.

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