Sales Training Manager

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4 Locations
In-Office or Remote
144K-198K Annually
Expert/Leader
Healthtech • Biotech
The Role
Lead and build a North America commercial training team, translate commercial strategy into scalable learning solutions, deliver and coach in field and classroom, align training with sales/marketing, use LMS and metrics to measure impact, and reduce time-to-competency while improving commercial performance.
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Reporting to the Head of NAM Learning & Development, the Sales Training Manager is a strategic leader responsible for building, developing, and leading a high-performing commercial training team that accelerates sales capability across North America. This role serves as a working manager, balancing hands-on training delivery, field coaching, and talent development with responsibility for shaping and executing the organization's sales training strategy.

In partnership with the Head of Learning & Development, Sales Leadership, Commercial Enablement, and Marketing, the Sales Training Manager translates business priorities, go-to-market initiatives, and product strategies into scalable learning solutions that drive commercial performance. The role is accountable for developing trainers, elevating instructional excellence, aligning training investments to business objectives, and ensuring measurable impact on sales effectiveness, customer engagement, and organizational growth.

As a key strategic partner to senior leadership, the Sales Training Manager creates strong connections between training, marketing, and commercial teams to ensure consistent messaging, effective execution, and sustained performance improvement across the sales organization.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop and lead a high-performing learning and development team, creating a culture of coaching, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.

  • Partner with the Head of Learning & Development to establish and execute a multi-year commercial learning strategy aligned to organizational growth objectives.

  • Serve as a liaison to Sales Leadership and Marketing, ensuring learning initiatives support go-to-market priorities, product launches, commercial campaigns, and business transformation efforts.

  • Build organizational capability by developing trainers into strategic business partners who influence performance and drive measurable business outcomes.

  • Lead the translation of commercial strategy into scalable training programs, field coaching initiatives, and role-based development pathways.

  • Maintain a strong field presence as a working manager by facilitating training, coaching sales teams, and modeling best-in-class sales and learning practices.

  • Ensure consistency and alignment of training delivery across zones, sales roles, and product portfolios

  • Provide direct leadership, coaching, development and performance management for Learning and Development teams

  • Establish clear expectations for training quality, consistency, execution and outcomes

  • Balance strategic oversight with hands-on engagement, including selective participation in classroom and field-based training

  • Oversee all new hire sales training programs to ensure accelerated time-to-competency and customer readiness

  • Ensure ongoing reinforcement and advanced training programs support sales professionals at all stages of development

  • Collaborate with Marketing to ensure training reinforces core messaging and go-to-market strategy

  • Embed value-based and consultative selling principles into all training, tools and coaching

  • Promote a culture of continuous improvement, accountability and customer focus

  • Utilize success metrics to measure sales performance impact, adoption and behavior change

  • Utilize the Learning Management System to track and monitor training activities and reports

  • Continually evaluate all sales training activities to identify areas for improvement and drive overall effectiveness 

  • Conduct regular field travel with new hires and identified sales representatives through working with the Leadership team, Sales Excellence Trainer and/or Product Trainers

  • Deliver and/or Assist in the delivery of additional formal training programs or take on other training roles and responsibilities that may be necessary to support the success of Siemens Healthineers

Location:

  • Preferred to be near a major airport in the Central or East zone

Key Competencies:

  • Sales & Commercial Leadership: Proven credibility in commercial sales environments with strong business acumen

  • People Leadership: Demonstrated success leading, coaching, and developing trainers or sales professionals

  • Strategic Thinking: Ability to align learning strategies with business goals and commercial execution

  • Learning Innovation: Expertise in adult learning principles, instructional design, and modern learning technologies

  • Data-Driven Leadership: Uses analytics and performance metrics to assess impact and drive improvement

  • Change Leadership: Leads transformation and promotes continuous learning in dynamic environments

  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Strong partnership across L&D, Sales, Marketing, Enablement, and Operations

  • Communication & Influence: High credibility with senior leaders and field sales teams

  • Organizational Effectiveness: Ability to manage complex priorities across roles, geographies, and timelines

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or relative expertise in business, healthcare, or related field

  • 10+ years’ experience in adult learning principles and curriculum design

  • 8+ years of experience in leading commercial training teams, coaching and enablement processes

  • 10+ years of experience in healthcare diagnostics, with a deep understanding of the market landscape and customer needs

  • Sales skills certifications or advanced facilitation credentials a plus

Success Metrics

  • Reduce new hire time to competency by 20% within 12 months by implementing standardized role-specific new hire programs and structured field reinforcement with Zone Sales Trainers and Sales Training Specialists

  • Achieve a minimum of 5% improvement in at least two key commercial performance metrics (e.g. win rate, deal velocity, or average deal size)

  • Ensure 95% alignment to standardized training quality and delivery standards across all roles with an increase in both learner and sales leader satisfaction.

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Who we are: We are a team of more than 72,000 highly dedicated Healthineers in more than 70 countries. As a leader in medical technology, we constantly push the boundaries to create better outcomes and experiences for patients, no matter where they live or what health issues they are facing. Our portfolio is crucial for clinical decision-making and treatment pathways.

How we work: When you join Siemens Healthineers, you become one in a global team of scientists, clinicians, developers, researchers, professionals, and skilled specialists, who believe in each individual’s potential to contribute with diverse ideas. We are from different backgrounds, cultures, religions, political and/or sexual orientations, and work together, to fight the world’s most threatening diseases and enable access to care, united by one purpose: to pioneer breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

To find out more about Siemens Healthineers businesses, please visit our company page here.

The base pay range for this position is:

$143,900 - $197,868

Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

If this is a commission eligible position the commission eligibility will be in accordance with the terms of the Company's plan. Commissions are based on individual performance and/or company performance.

The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan. life insurance, long-term and short-term disability insurance, paid parking/public transportation, paid time off, paid sick and safe time.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: Siemens Healthineers is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability unrelated to ability, marital status, family responsibilities, pregnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, transgender, sex stereotyping, order of protection status, protected veteran or military status, or an unfavorable discharge from military service, and other categories protected by federal, state or local law.

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Reasonable Accommodations: Siemens Healthineers is committed to equal employment opportunity. As part of this commitment, we will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations.

If you require a reasonable accommodation in completing a job application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please fill out the accommodations form here. If you’re unable to complete the form, you can reach out to our HR People Connect People Contact Center for support at [email protected]. Please note HR People Connect People Contact Center will not have visibility of your application or interview status.

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Export Control: “A successful candidate must be able to work with controlled technology in accordance with US export control law.” “It is Siemens Healthineers’ policy to comply fully and completely with all United States export control laws and regulations, including those implemented by the Department of Commerce through the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), by the Department of State through the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), and by the Treasury Department through the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions regulations.”

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To all recruitment agencies: Siemens Healthineers does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, employees, or any other company location. Siemens Healthineers is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent expertise in business, healthcare, or related field
  • 10+ years' experience in adult learning principles and curriculum design
  • 8+ years' experience leading commercial training teams, coaching and enablement processes
  • 10+ years' experience in healthcare diagnostics with deep market and customer knowledge
  • Proven credibility in commercial sales environments and strong business acumen
  • Demonstrated success leading, coaching, and developing trainers or sales professionals
  • Expertise in instructional design, adult learning principles, and modern learning technologies
  • Experience using a Learning Management System to track and monitor training activities and reports
  • Data-driven leadership: experience using analytics and performance metrics to assess impact
  • Willingness and ability to conduct regular field travel and maintain a strong field presence
  • Preferred to be located near a major airport in the Central or East zone
  • Sales skills certifications or advanced facilitation credentials
  • Ability to work with controlled technology in accordance with US export control law

Varian Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Varian and has not been reviewed or approved by Varian.

  • Healthcare Strength Health coverage is described as comprehensive with multiple U.S. medical plan options, virtual care, and targeted support programs for complex needs. Feedback suggests this breadth contributes meaningfully to overall benefits satisfaction.
  • Retirement Support A 401(k) savings plan with company contributions and a defined vesting schedule is part of the package. Investment guidance and a brokerage window reinforce long‑term financial planning support.
  • Flexible Benefits A global framework with Varian‑specific country overviews and site‑dependent perks indicates adaptable offerings by location. U.S. materials highlight choice among HRA/HSA designs and regional HMOs where available.

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The Company
HQ: Palo Alto, CA
10,000 Employees

What We Do

At Varian, a Siemens Healthineers company, we envision a world without fear of cancer. For more than 70 years, we have developed, built and delivered innovative cancer care technologies and solutions for our clinical partners around the globe to help them treat millions of patients each year. With an Intelligent Cancer Care approach, we are harnessing advanced technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning and data analytics to enhance cancer treatment and expand access to care. Our 10,000 employees across 70 locations keep the patient and our clinical partners at the center of our thinking as we power new victories in cancer care. Because, for cancer patients everywhere, their fight is our fight.

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