
Senior Manager, Sales Enablement
- Charlotte, NC
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Design and execute sales enablement strategies that align with company objectives and drive revenue growth.
- Develop, deliver, and manage comprehensive training programs and workshops for the sales team, focusing on product knowledge, sales techniques, and industry best practices.
- Oversee the creation and curation of sales materials, including presentations, playbooks, and sales collateral, ensuring they are relevant, engaging, and effective.
- Identify, implement, and optimize sales enablement tools and technologies to enhance productivity and performance.
- Monitor and analyze sales trends, identify areas for improvement, and provide actionable insights and recommendations.
- Work closely with marketing, product, and other departments to ensure alignment of sales enablement efforts with overall business strategies and goals.
- Provide ongoing coaching and support to sales representatives, helping them navigate challenges and develop their skills.
- Establish mechanisms for collecting feedback from the sales team and other stakeholders to continuously refine and improve enablement initiatives.
- Handle complex issues requiring deep knowledge of the company and its sales operations.
- Participate in the development of methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for projects and programs.
- Ensure compliance with budgetary and scheduling requirements.
- Ambitious and forward thinking - someone who continuously sets the bar higher with enablement programs.
- Experience developing and delivering enablement programs aligned with multiple lines of business, product training and certification, foundational sales skills, and sales leadership skills.
- HCM industry and enterprise software or enterprise SaaS industry experience.
- Successful sales experience in these areas a plus.
- Bachelor or advanced degree in business, adult education, or related field.
- Experience in enablement, organization development, training design, and management of large-scale projects.
- Ability and desire to work and collaborate cross-functionally.
- Ability to gain buy-in and acceptance for programs at the enterprise, functional, and sales levels.
- Strong aptitude for business strategy.
- Strong project management skills combined with an ability to define key performance metrics to measure impact of sales enablement initiatives on sales productivity and effectiveness.
- 8-10+ years' experience in developing/implementing training and coaching for sales professionals.
- Demonstrated ability to recruit, develop, and lead a sales enablement team.
- Exceptional people, presentation, verbal and written communication skills.
- Detail and results-oriented, organized, and possess multi¬tasking skills.
- Demonstrated leadership skills
- Successful experience as a quota-carrying sales representative helpful.