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Sr. Manager Field Readiness

Salesforce, Inc..

London

On-site

GBP 55,000 - 85,000

Full time

25 days ago

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Job summary

Salesforce, a leading software company, seeks a Field Readiness Partner to drive sales productivity and enablement. This role involves collaborating with sales leaders, designing training programs, and managing comprehensive enablement operations. Ideal candidates are strategic problem solvers with strong communication skills and experience in sales enablement.

Qualifications

  • Proven experience as a business partner in L&D, training, or sales programs.
  • Strong knowledge of software sales cycles and lead qualification.
  • Excellent attention to detail and confident communicator.

Responsibilities

  • Build relationships with sales leaders to enhance team productivity.
  • Lead strategic planning for business units.
  • Own end-to-end enablement operations and manage logistics.

Skills

Strategic problem solving
Communication
Teamwork
Stakeholder management

Job description

As an Field Readiness Partner (FRP) within Salesforce Field Enablement, you will serve as a strategic advisor to key UKI sales and solutions leadership teams. Your primary responsibility will be to build trusted, collaborative relationships with these internal stakeholders to co-develop tailored enablement plans aligned to regional business priorities.
You will lead the design and execution of high-impact enablement programs and initiatives that accelerate field productivity and directly contribute to priority outcomes. Working closely with cross-functional teams and the COO org, you’ll align global enablement strategy with local needs, ensuring both consistency and relevance.
In this role, you’ll define success measures in partnership with the business, monitor progress, and continuously iterate based on feedback and performance data.

The ideal candidate brings experience in leading complex programs, working cross-functionally, and influencing senior stakeholders. They are a strong communicator, business-savvy problem solver, and trusted thought partner who thrives in fast-paced, matrixed environments.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Partner with Sales leaders to understand how to drive greater productivity of their teams and resolve their requirements with enablement programs that will drive business impact.

  • Drives strategic quarterly planning for respective Business units while maintaining agility to pivot in-quarter based on evolving business needs.

  • Conduct deep discovery to understand the root causes of performance gaps and identify the right enablement levers.

  • Analyzes complex issues, synthesizing diverse inputs to identify underlying patterns and create a compelling Enablement POV.

  • Build strong, consultative partnerships with senior sales leaders to co-create tailored solutions that address real business needs and drive measurable outcomes.

  • Collaborate across the OU ecosystem and global enablement teams to tailor and optimize locally-driven programs, while enhancing the accessibility, relevance, and impact of globally available initiatives.

  • Own end-to-end enablement operations, including managing logistics, tracking participation and engagement metrics, and providing comprehensive pre- and post-enablement support to ensure high adoption and measurable impact.

  • Connects across COO function and regions to clarify dependencies, set shared goals, and ensure seamless joint delivery of initiatives.

  • Be the subject matter expert and act as trusted advisor to the business leaders for their teams s enablement.



PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE/SKILLS PREFERRED

  • Experience will be evaluated based on alignment to the key strengths for the role

  • Proven experience as a business partner in L&D, training, sales enablement, or Sales programs or strategy is highly desirable.

  • Strong, detailed knowledge of software sales cycles, pre-sales, lead qualification, sales process, and senior stakeholder management

  • Strong ability to represent concepts, as well as summarise and communicate sophisticated ideas into curriculum with a sense of how sales professionals think, operate and absorb training.

  • Get it done attitude with a strong sense of team spirit.

  • Excellent attention to detail, oral, written and presentation skills, confident communicator with a flair for storytelling.

  • Strategic problem solver that can see the big picture, innovate and adapt to constant change.

  • Outstanding interpersonal skills that span across various cultures and professional backgrounds. Ability to connect the dots organisationally, network thoughtfully and influence various roles, levels and profiles to drive teamwork and program excellence.

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