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Sales Excellence Lead SME&C

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The Sales Excellence Lead for SME&C is a strategic role that enables and drives consistent Sales Excellence practices throughout the SME&C UK&I sales business to achieve sales objectives. The successful candidate will gain a deep understanding of Digital Sales operating model, digital culture, and be part of a dynamic, fast-paced and quickly evolving sales organization. This position is a strategic contributor operationalizing strategy, driving growth, increasing seller productivity and driving cultural transformation.

Job Responsibility:

  • Partner with sales leaders and stakeholders to increase selling time, remove roadblocks and increase seller capability and effectiveness
  • Role model the internal transformation from an inspection to coaching culture. Leading sales managers to become more effective coaches to their sellers resulting in increased individual and team capability, employee satisfaction and collaborative selling efforts
  • Establish and drive a well-defined, predictable rhythm of the business (RoB), that enforces great discipline in sales and consumption processes and delivers over-achievement of business results through leveraging the key SME&C engines & resources
  • Leverage business insights to benchmark performance and define current and future actions needed to address key challenges. Drive the v-teams spanning across roles, SME&C engines, resources and Sales Units executing on the defined actions.
  • Coach and advise on sales motions/strategies for up-sell and co-sell driving AI Transformation at our existing and new Customers. Drive awareness to product/solution mix needed to meet targets
  • Obtain first-hand insights on Customer/Partner issues and aspirations through targeted engagements
  • Instilling sales process discipline, adherence to standards, and excellence in execution while holding sales managers accountable to quality and accuracy

Requirements:

  • Extensive related experience in: Senior Sales or Channel Management/Leadership Roles
  • Business Transformation
  • Coaching Solution Sales
  • Strategic Sales Planning
  • Inside Sales
  • Digital Marketing
  • Business Analysis Skills (understands financials, pipeline, scorecards etc)
  • Education: Bachelor, MBA/Masters a plus with focus on economics, marketing, finance, organizational management, business management
  • Core Competencies: Organizational Leadership, Strong Business Acumen, Strategic Insights, Trusted Advisor, Strategic Sales Planning, Sales Team Leadership
  • Professional Competencies: Adaptability, Customer Focus, Drive for Results, Influencing Impact, Judgement, Collaboration, Executive Maturity/Presence, Value Selling, Analytical Problem Solving, Organized & Disciplined, Initiates/Embraces Change

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 16, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
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On-site work
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