Senior Manager, Sales Enablement, NAMER Sales Solutions

Company Description

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

Job Description

This role can be in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, New York or Chicago depending on where the hired candidate for the role currently resides.      

At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business.  The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.      

Role Description: We are seeking a Senior Manager to join the LinkedIn Sales Solutions (LSS) Sales Enablement team, our sales line of business. This leader is a critical business partner to the NAMER VP of Sales and oversees a team of Sales Performance Consultants (SPCs) across the region who drive the sales enablement and upskilling strategy for our North American field sales team. 

The NAMER Sales Enablement Team (your team): Our Sales Performance Consultants are aligned with specific segments (Acquisition, Mid Market, Enterprise, and Large Enterprise markets) and serve as a business partner to the sales leadership teams.  Their remit is to enable and upskill field sales reps and sales managers in their region/segment to do the best work of their careers, and help LSS achieve our business objectives. The team is responsible for raising the bar in building incredible sales enablement experiences, with a focus on application of sales skills, sales methodology, and sales coaching. This team brings globally scaled programs to market across the NAMER region – customizing programs to meet the nuances and unique needs of their segment.  They provide key input into the Global programs team, to ensure programs are being built in a way that will best drive value in-market. SPCs bring data-driven insights and learning program recommendations to their business partners to address specific activity and skill gaps aligned to specific business results.  This team is essential to making learning land, stick, and drive meaningful value for our global business. 

The LSS NAMER Sales Enablement Leader (you): As the leader of this team, your role is to craft a strategic and holistic vision for how the Sales Enablement team can be successful in NAMER, aligned to global and local business priorities. The successful candidate will be a strong leader with exceptional skills in operational excellence, business acumen, sales process, sales methodology, sales coaching, and learning measurement. You have experience using data and insights to craft strong executive recommendations and will connect the dots between our sales business priorities to our enablement strategy. You will manage large, complex programs in a highly-matrixed organization via partnership with our global programs team, other regional sales performance consulting leaders, and cross functional leaders. 

You are passionate about learning, reinforcement, measurement, and developing talent within your own team. You are a coach, have deep business acumen and a proven track record of building high performing teams, and strong relationships with sales and cross-functional leaders. You are innovative, future-focused, and model LinkedIn’s culture and values. You are adept with creating credibility and driving relationships across multiple stakeholders, approach ambiguity with open-mindedness, agility and positivity, and demonstrate continuous commitment to iterating and improving. Crucially, you will represent Sales Enablement at the NAMER leadership table, and are accountable for bringing the LSS GTM priorities to life through our learning programs. 

Responsibilities   

• Hire, lead and coach a dynamic, diverse, world-class team of Sales Enablement professionals   
• Use problem-solving skills to logically structure ambiguous problems, conduct data-driven analysis, extrapolate key insights, and deliver executive-ready recommendations 
• Create vision for how SPCs can bring learning programs to life in their segments to achieve business goals 
• Identify gaps that centralized programs are not solving for – lead the SPC team in building learning programs to close these gaps 
• Effectively and continuously diagnose the needs across the business. Partner with sales and customer success leaders to drive rep and manager learning acros