Director, Sales Strategy Enablement

Collaborates with business, platform, and tools experts to provide updates and report key metrics needed to assist sales and partner teams to drive the sales business forward. Establishes and maintains key points of contact with internal teams (e.g., Finance, Marketing, Engineering, Field Sales). Manages and cultivates relationships with leaders of internal teams. Builds relationships with senior leadership executives (e.g., Directors, General Manager [GM] level, CVP). Acts as an advisor to senior leadership on a particular area of expertise and market awareness to inform strategic sales planning decisions. Demonstrates influences through partners across multiple divisions. Influences for impact by motivating others to buy into vision and execution. Drives alignment and influence towards common goal, Maintains awareness about business transformation and growth across Horizon 2 and Horizon 3 initiatives. Challenges status quo to drive business transformation. Problem Solving and Insights Synthesizes findings into insights across sales projects, including implications that inform sales go-to-market objectives, leveraging executive presence to influence decisions and proactively identifying expansive ideas for field and partner sales strategy. Creates frameworks and methodologies to drive problem solving and insights. Shares best practices with peers. Sales Insights, Readiness, and Activation Collaborates with business, platform, and tools experts to provide updates and report key metrics needed to assist sales and partner teams to drive the sales business forward. Addresses any tools, platform, or business escalations when needed. Provides insights into the Sales market, acts as a business conduit to broader internal and external stakeholders and adjusts plans when required to exceed business outcomes. Provides support success measurements based on data from tools and platforms. Communicates with field sales on business updates and plans within multiple regions. Shares best practices with peers. Sales Landing Collaborates with Field and Corporate leaders to identify planning focus areas and cases for change. Integrates change management communicated by senior level stakeholders, and ensures compliance. Leads, manages, and adjusts plans and plays to achieve desired business outcomes. Addresses high-level escalations from field and corporate stakeholders. Ensures continuous improvement by providing feedback to product team. Sales Market Research and Analysis Conducts analyses (e.g., financial modeling, product consumption forecasting, competitor trends) and leverages analyses of others to synthesize information. Creates initial framing for strategic sales questions with limited input and delivers structured output from analyses. Develops, drives, and executes multiple Sales Strategy projects/programs and teams across organizational boundaries as a project lead through defining plans, goals, deliverables, feedback, resource balancing, and timing expectations. Proactively identifies complex roadblocks and addresses them. Initiates and drives multiple projects and topic areas including project plans, recommendations, impact, and syndication across groups. Identifies, evaluates, and proposes new project work/deals based on unmet needs. Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Finance, Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years experience in business consulting, sales, sales operations, information technology (IT), account management, business development, marketing, IT field sales, or a related field 6+ years experience in in Near Term Strategy (2 years out), Management Consulting, Sales, or Finance. Master's Degree in Business Administration or related field AND 5+ years of marketing, strategy, sales, sales leadership, program management, project management, business planning, consulting, banking, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, or related field AND 7+ years of marketing, strategy, sales, sales leadership, program management, project management, business planning, consulting, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience OR equivalent experience.