The Director of Sales Enablement will develop and manage sales enablement programs, collaborating with teams to improve skills, streamline processes, and create effective training materials for sales teams.
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What’s This Role All About?
We’re on the hunt for a Director of Sales Enablement to champion our program. If you love building, thrive in a high-energy setting, and want to see the real impact of your work, this is for you! In this key role, you’ll help fuel our go-to-market machine. We’re looking for someone who’s not just organized and a clear communicator—you’re a natural trainer, a process builder, and you truly care about helping sales pros grow and succeed. You’ll bring your knack for accelerating learning and know-how to a global sales force, working across the company to improve outcomes; you’ll be the go-to for best practices, killer training, and making sure everyone has the right tools, resources, and game plan to crush their goals.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Dream up and roll out a top-notch sales enablement program—think tools, processes, cool training programs, and even accreditations. You’ll own the 6-12-18 month roadmap.
- Build and manage enablement tools and resources that help our sales teams bring in the wins.
- Line up our sales process with how our clients buy, so we can boost speed and close more deals at every stage.
- Dig into what people and teams need to get even better—then create targeted plans and programs to level up everyone’s skills.
- Speed up the time it takes for new hires to ramp, and help everyone else keep sharpening their skills with smart, ongoing training.
- Create a standout onboarding experience, working with teams across Cyderes.
- Team up with Sales Leaders to pinpoint training needs and make sure every team is firing on all cylinders.
- Turn business needs into tech-powered solutions through our tech stack
- Handle a little light system admin and vendor wrangling as needed.
- Help fine-tune our Sales methodologies and system gates to simplify their execution and allow for scale.
- Create awesome, ready-to-go training materials and playbooks
- Inspire a coaching culture, boost adoption of new ideas, and make sure we’re always getting better together.
What You’ll Bring
- 5+ years leading Sales Development Enablement managers, with a track record of growing enablement pros
- Love for entrepreneurial, ever-changing environments—you’re resourceful, strategic, and go all-in for excellence
- Real empathy for what Account Executives do day to day, and a knack for picking projects that’ll really move the needle for sales reps
- Know how to use tech and learning strategies to make training fun, effective, and memorable
- 3+ years directly enabling Sales Development reps
- Experience in software or tech is a plus!
- Skilled at building relationships across departments—people just like working with you
- Super organized and a top-notch communicator
- Time up to 20% of the time.
Cyderes is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information, national origin, or veteran status.
Note: This job posting is intended for direct applicants only. We request that outside recruiters do not contact us regarding this position.
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