Field Sales Enablement Manager

Field Sales Enablement Manager

Location: London

Reports to: Senior Manager Sales Enablement

Purpose of the Role

Regional Enablement Implementation

The Field Sales Enablement Manager is responsible for designing delivering and optimizing enablement programs that elevate the performance productivity and consistency of the Field Sales Teams across a region. This role partners with Field Sales Leadership & Operations crossfunctional stakeholders and subject matter experts to ensure that the Field Account Executives are equipped with the skills content and knowledge needed to drive revenue growth and execute effectively in their territories.

This role requires extensive travel within the region50-75% spending meaningful time in the field to observe real customer interactions conduct ridealongs and provide timely actionable feedback and it necessitates being a native speaker of the region to ensure full linguistic and cultural fluency.

Regional Enablement Partnership

Act as the Enablement Business Partner for the region and by utilizing your on-the-ground analysis and deep understanding of the business landscape identify gaps prioritize opportunities and develop actionable solutions and proactively make recommendations to regional sales leadership. Advocate effectively for your region by building a compelling case for necessary resources and support ensuring alignment with the Enablement team.

Key Responsibilities

Enablement Strategy & Program Development

Collaborate with the Enablement Team Manager to build and execute comprehensive enablement strategies focused on prospecting territory management solution selling and deal closure.

Training Design & Delivery

Create and facilitate onboarding programs tailored to the needs of Field Sales Account Executives and skilldevelopment workshops focused on converting knowledge into skills through flipped classroom roleplays simulations and fieldbased learning such as ridealongs and interritory coaching sessions.

Content & Tools Creation

Develop highimpact enablement assetsincluding playbooks territory planning frameworks pitch decks objectionhandling guides demo scripts and customer conversation frameworksto support consistent and effective selling.

CrossFunctional Collaboration

Partner with Product Marketing Operations and regional Sales Leadership to ensure alignment in messaging product positioning and gotomarket strategies across territories and segments.

Coaching & Performance Support

Provide targeted coaching to Field Sales Account Executives to strengthen prospecting presentation negotiation and pipeline management capabilities. Conduct regular ridealongs and shadowing sessions offering structured feedback immediately after customer meetings to reinforce best practices and drive behavioral change.

Certification & Competency Frameworks

Build and maintain certification programs and competency models to ensure Field Sales teams meet performance standards and adhere to sales methodologies.

And a little bit of....

• Contributing as part of the wider team to achieve organisational objectives even if this means doing things that arent strictly within the scope of your role.

KPIs

Enablement Outputs related:

• Certification Success Rate: High pass rates for new hires and current team members on role-specific certifications.

• Onboarding Completion Rate: Ensuring new hires complete all training and are certified within expected timelines.

• Participant Satisfaction Score: High feedback scores reflecting relevance and quality of training programs.

• Knowledge Retention and Application: Evidence of skill application in daily work through follow-up evaluations and manager feedback.

• Training Quality and Engagement: Regular improvements to training materials based on feedback resulting in increased engagement and knowledge retention.

Experience

• 3-5 years experience in delivering enablement programs for Field Sales Outside Sales Teams Outbound Sales Motions preferably in global SaaS companies;

• Experience in evaluating the effectiveness of enablement programs and their impact on business critical metrics such as pipeline growth win rates quota attainment and revenue generation;

• Experience in working with data to extract useful actionable insights;

• Proven track record of creating field sales enablement content and tools that drive behavioral change and performance improvement.

Experience working in the fieldtravelling with reps observing customer interactions and delivering inthemoment coachingis strongly preferred.

Attributes & Skills

What will help you kick ass in this role

• Strong understanding of the Field Sales function including prospecting strategies territory management solution selling and deal progression;

• Knowledge of hospitality industry and their unique sales considerations is a plus;

• Ability to extract actionable insights from data and clearly articulate these insights to stakeholders;

• Excellent presentation and facilitation skills with the ability to engage and influence at all levels;

• Strong content creation skills to develop compelling enablement materials tailored for field environments;

• Understanding of sales methodologies CRM systems (particularly Salesforce) and sales technology;

• Collaborative mindset with the ability to work cross-functionally across multiple teams and time zones;

• Strategic thinking combined with attention to detail in program execution;

• Adaptable and entrepreneurial approach to enablement in fast-paced target-driven environments.

Comfort with frequent travel and a hands-on coaching style that thrives in realworld field settings.

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Lightspeed is a proud equal opportunity employer and we are committed to creating an inclusive and barrier-free workplace. Lightspeed welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Where to from here

Obviously this has to be mutually beneficial: we want you to step into a role you love and we want to offer you a place youre proud to come to every day. For a glimpse into our world check out our career page here.

Lightspeed is building communities through commerce and we need people from all backgrounds and lived experiences to do that. We were founded in 2005 in Montreals gay village and our original members were all part of the LGBTQ community. The ethos of our business has been about inclusion from the very beginning and we strive to provide a workplace where everyone belongs.

Who we are:

Powering the businesses that are the backbone of the global economy Lightspeeds one-stop commerce platform helps merchants innovate to simplify scale and provide exceptional customer experiences. Our cloud commerce solution transforms and unifies online and physical operations multichannel sales expansion to new locations global payments financial solutions and connection to supplier networks.

Founded in Montréal Canada in 2005 Lightspeed is dual-listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: LSPD) and Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: LSPD). With teams across North America Europe and Asia Pacific the company serves retail hospitality and golf businesses in over 100 countries.

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