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Sales development manager resume examples from 2025

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Updated March 26, 2025
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How to write a sales development manager resume

Craft a resume summary statement

Your resume summary sums up your experience and skills, making it easy for hiring managers to understand your qualifications at a glance. Here are some tips to writing the most important 2-4 sentences of your resume:

Step 1: Mention your current job title or the role you're pursuing.

Step 2: Include your years of experience in sales development manager-related roles. Consider adding relevant company and industry experience as relevant to the job listing.

Step 3: Highlight your greatest accomplishments. Here is your chance to make sure your biggest wins aren't buried in your resume.

Step 4: Again, keep it short. Your goal is to summarize your experience and highlight your accomplishments, not write a paragraph.

These tips will help you demonstrate why you are the perfect fit for the sales development manager position.

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List the right project manager skills

Many resumes are filtered out by hiring software before a human eye ever sees them. A robust Skills section can let recruiters (and bots) know you have the skills to do the job. Here is how to make the most of your skills section:

  1. You often need to include the exact keywords from the job description in your resume. Look at the job listing and consider which of the listed skills you have experience with, along with related skills.
  2. Include as many relevant hard skills and soft skills as possible from the listing.
  3. Use the most up to date and accurate terms. Don't forget to be specific.
These five steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some sales development manager interviews.

Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on a sales development manager resume:

  • SDR
  • Salesforce
  • Customer Service
  • CRM
  • Sales Process
  • Business Development
  • Lead Generation
  • Training Programs
  • Product Knowledge
  • Sales Targets
  • Sales Training
  • Sales Strategies
  • Sales Professionals
  • Sales Plan
  • Enterprise Sales
  • HR
  • Project Management
  • Sales Performance
  • Sales Organization
  • Performance Management
  • Sales Reps
  • Revenue Growth
  • Sales
  • Digital Marketing
  • KPI
  • Customer Satisfaction
  • Customer Relationships
  • Sales Objectives
  • Sales Tools
  • Account Management

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How to structure your work experience

A work experience section is a vital part of your resume because it shows you have the experience to succeed in your next job.

  1. Put your most recent experience first. Prospective employers care about your most recent accomplishments the most.
  2. Put the job title, company name, city, and state on the left. Align dates in month and year format on the right-hand side.
  3. Include only recent, relevant jobs. This means if you're a fairly experienced worker, you might need to leave off that first internship or other positions in favor of highlighting more pertinent positions.

How to write sales development manager experience bullet points

Your resume is your chance to show your biggest accomplishments. Don't just list your job responsibilities, instead take the opportunity to show why you're really good at what you do. Here is how you do that:

  • Start with strong action verbs like managed, spearheaded, created, etc. Your goal is to show what you did and verbs will help demonstrate your contributions.
  • Use numbers to quantify your achievements. Did you save time with a new report? Increase revenue? How large was the team you managed?
  • Keep it concise. You're highlighting your achievements. Consider if all details you are sharing are relevant, or can be written more efficiently.

Here are effective examples from sales development manager resumes:

Work history example #1

Sales Development Manager

Baker Hughes, a GE

  • Supported other commercial tenders by providing recommendations to optimize cost structure and fielding technical questions.
  • Prepared quarterly and monthly Key Performance Indicator/Service quality review.
  • Worked with division and region management to develop enterprise approach for technology application.
  • Designed and configured new and upgrades existing systems meeting customer/RFP specifications.
  • Managed business accounts for Verizon.

Work history example #2

Sales Development Manager

C.H. Robinson

  • Ensured all customers had all needs met and maintained high level communications.
  • Developed a business plan that analyzed customer needs to determine optimal logistics solutions while also reducing yearly costs.
  • Visited Tier 1 OEM's and white industry maquilas on the frontier.
  • Led global coordination, process documentation, and training for 26 global manufacturing sites including major contract manufacturers and OEM suppliers.
  • Planned, executed a strategic communication plan in collaboration with the area manager.

Work history example #3

Business Developer

Rainmaker Systems

  • Secured a global healthcare marketing and communications agency specializing in rare and orphan disease.
  • Advised and partnered with C-level executives and Fortune 500 Corporations Responsible for overall account management, execution and development.
  • Worked closely with top C-level decision makers by providing Executive level trusted advisor customer relationship management.
  • Explained data warehouse and applications with demos to C-level executives
  • Served as healthcare SME and Managed Print Services (MPS) and BPI mentor for the region.

Work history example #4

Sales/Marketing

CROSSMARK

  • Handled reporting and web analytics for clients /executives through Omniture and Access systems.
  • Gathered and collated information for SalesForce database to incorporate current and prospective clients.
  • Organized the leads I generated, and tracked their status throughout all phases before they progressed into advertisements.
  • Gained knowledge about the TV assembly with parts from LG Korea.
  • Created reports and provided administrative support to ten person sales team * Assisted in designing company CRM using FileMaker Pro 13

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Add an education section to your resume

The education section should display your highest degree first.

Place your education section appropriately on your resume. If you graduated over 5 years ago, this section should be at the bottom of your resume. If you just graduated and lack relevant work experience, the education section should go to the top.

If you have a bachelor's or master's degree, do not list your high school education. If your graduation year is more than 15-20 years ago, it's better not to include dates in this section.

Here are some examples of good education entries for resumes:

Master's Degree in business

California State University - San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA

2000 - 2001

Master's Degree in business

Monroe College, Bronxville, NY

1999 - 2000

Highlight your sales development manager certifications on your resume

If you have any additional certifications or education-like achievements, add them to the education section.

To list, use the full name of the certification and the organization that issued it, along with the date of achievement.

If you have any of these certifications, be sure to include them on your sales development manager resume:

  1. Certified Sales Professional (CSP)
  2. Sales Management

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