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Job Description

Director, Sales Effectiveness and Manager Development

As a critical member of ServiceNow’s Global Sales Enablement team and ServiceNow’s

growth strategy, the Director, Sales Effectiveness and Manager Development will act as

an integrating role between sales leadership, sales operations, marketing, regional and

global sales teams, and field enablement. This position is responsible for leading Sales

Enablement initiatives to increase sales productivity, optimize performance and help

field teams to understand how to maximize every customer engagement and help our

customers realize value.

This is a highly consultative and collaborative global role in which you will consult with

ServiceNow senior leadership teams to identify skill gaps, make enablement

recommendations, and lead an enablement team to build out programs.

This role will be responsible for a significant degree of cross functional collaboration

across the organization, including business units, sales, marketing, operations, and

regional teams. Through these engagements you and your team will collaborate to

develop plans to support the development, delivery, and assessment of enablement for

all ServiceNow sales (field) managers and selling roles (non-managers) in four key

areas:

1) Sales manager effectiveness:

2) Account hygiene, process and tools:

3) ValueSelling Framework ®(Our selling internal methodology)

4) Now Value Customer journey

The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, is flexible and comfortable with

changing priorities, can distill large amounts of information into simple concepts and

can build effective working relationships cross-functionally. They will have experience

working at a leadership level within an enterprise level software, media, technology, or

other complex intangible sales organization. A deep knowledge of the end-to-end sales

lifecycle for a complex selling engagement is essential.

What You’ll do:

• Lead, coach and provide direction to a team of Enablement Managers who create relevant, meaningful, and high-impact enablement materials, programs, and platforms for different personas within the sales organization.
• Work with key stakeholders at the management/executive level to assess and understand skills and enablement needs, define options, and translate them into actionable and measurable program objectives and goals.
• Assess existing programs, playbooks and sales effectiveness artifacts and determine necessary changes to optimize for ease of use, clarity of execution, and stickiness of learning and adoption.
• Build out manager only guides, meetings or trainings in a box, manager huddles, workshops, and other deliverables to build first line manager engagement and discipline to drive the behaviors that the Global Sales Enablement organization.
• Work with talent acquisition teams and HR to collaborate on leadership development programs that are aligned to the ServiceNow principles and existing people manager programs. Prioritize needs across multiple field functions and convert those needs into enablement programs that achieve measurable success.
• Be aware of and align enablement to the shifts in ServiceNow’s strategy as well as external shifts e.g., industry and competition and what’s required to adapt to those changes and challenges. Director, Sales Effectiveness and Manager Development
• Provide thought leadership and innovation to deliver enablement and programs in new and unique ways to improve time to market, learner time to productivity, and deliver customer scenario-based learning and assessments.
• Represent the requirements and needs of field organizations while influencing the direction of training activities, content, and assessments.
• Drive the successful execution of initiatives to ensure milestones and objectives are met while ensuring quality.
• Work with the communications team to deliver effective program communications that inform, influence and drive adoption of enablement programs and deliverables.
• Develop and manage detailed project or program plans that consider all requirements, constraints, resources, and deliverables associated with the defined objectives.
• Effectively manage risk, partnering with colleagues to ensure the right decisions are made at the right time, appropriate communication occurs, and plans are intelligently adjusted to reflect necessary fluctuations in goals and requirements.
• Leverage the change management team when necessary to ensure the successful adoption of broad and high impact strategic initiatives.

Qualifications

To be successful in this role you must have:

• 15+ years in Sales Leadership or Sales Operations experience preferably in complex selling environments e.g., SAAS, digital media, or tech are a benefit for this role
• Experience in sales enablement, leadership development or training is desirable.
• An authentic commitment to diversity, challenging the status quo, holding others accountable, and making diversity and inclusion a priority.
• Strong communication, critical thinking, and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent presentations skills: ability to garner support for new ideas and initiatives.
• A highly collaborative and unifying mindset that allows you to partner across of multiple groups, establish and build close working relationships.
• Influencing skills.
• Strategic and tactical skills needed to both define the vision and clear outcomes upfront as well as stay on track with milestones and project plans.
• Expert project /program manager
• Strong understanding of the day-to-day life of sales, including the stages of the sales process, buyer personas and tools that help reps be effective in their roles.
• Strong aptitude for learning new technologies and leveraging tools of the trade, such as new training methods and practices

Additional Information

ServiceNow is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status or any other category protected by law.

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