Define and execute Sales Training strategy and roadmap aligned to business and functional priorities.
Partner with sales and branch leadership to conduct training needs assessments, identify critical capability gaps (current and future-state) and translate business requirements into clear learning objectives, program outcomes and measures of success.
Establish governance, standards, and scalable models across branch manufacturing sites and sales teams.
Serve as a credible and trusted advisor and coach to branch training teams.
Design and scale sales onboarding processes and programs to ensure consistent, high-quality employee experience, accelerate time-to-productivity and support retention.
Lead the company orientation program to ensure new hires are effectively and efficiently introduced to our company values, business model/markets, products and customers.
Lead the Sales Leadership Development program to support and accelerate the development and readiness of future senior sales leaders and our desire for a healthy internal talent pipeline that supports our ability to promote from within the organization.
Partner with branch leadership to ensure alignment and reinforcement of sales training content, programs and initiatives, while scaling best practices.
Lead planning, execution, and management of sales training initiatives and team operations, ensuring high-quality design and delivery.
Define and execute measurement strategy to evaluate effectiveness, behavior change, and business outcomes using data to drive continuous improvement.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree required.
Minimum of 8+ years of progressive experience in sales, learning & development or training.
5+ years in a leadership role managing teams and sales training/enablement initiatives, including:
Building technical, product and selling skills curricula
Designing scalable sales capability strategies
Leading onboarding and sales readiness programs
Measuring business impact of training
Experience managing RFPs, vendors and external partners and budgets.
Experience supporting national multi-region sales organizations.
Experience building learning roadmaps tied to business outcomes.