Sales Leader Excellence Coach, France

Salesforce, Inc..; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology leader is seeking a Sales Leadership Coach to enhance the performance of Sales and Solutions Leaders. This role focuses on developing high-impact coaching programs, aligning business needs with training, and cultivating a coaching culture within the sales organization. The ideal candidate has strong coaching skills, executive presence, and the ability to drive sales operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in combined Sales/Solutions & Sales/Solutions Leadership.
• 3+ years in Training and Enablement with leadership program experience.
• Fluent in both French and English.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality Coaching Programs to instill a coaching culture.
• Provide 1:1 Professional Coaching to sales leaders.
• Partner with Talent Development and Employee Success for alignment.

Skills

Coaching skills

Executive presence

Communication

Problem-solving

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s Degree preferred or equivalent

ICF or EMCC-recognized Coaching Certification

Tools

Salesforce CRM

Trailhead

Highspot

Job description

Salesforce is committed to the high performance of our Sales and Solutions Leaders globally by providing world class enablement. Reporting into the EMEA’s Leader Excellence Coach and aligned to support France organizational unit, this person will prepare new leaders, up-level existing leaders, and accelerate top performers through 1:1 coaching, leader training and the execution of the sales leader excellence coaching strategy in their respective region.

This person will be critical to ensuring sales leaders feel educated, advised, supported and work in close partnership with their Excellence Academy Leaders, Enablement Business Partner, local Enablement Practitioners, Employee Success and Global Enablement. The outcome will be developing our best sales leaders who can connect the dots across the business, coach leaders on sales excellence, improve participation metrics and instill a culture of coaching.

In strong collaboration with the Sales Leadership, we deliver a best in class coaching program and experience by:

• Understanding the key business requirements across their assigned Organizational Unit to determine impact and benefit through Leader Coaching and Training Programs

• Aligning the business needs to specific Coaching Programs from Onboarding to role-based training as a key driver for employee success, continuous learning and internal career growth

• Delivering high quality Coaching Programs to (i) instill a coaching culture in sales leaders (ii) drive sales operational excellence, standardization and processes to increase performance, (iii) build specific soft and business skill coaching with context based on data

Key objectives for the Global Coaching team in each region:

• Provide 1:1 Professional Coaching to sales leaders of varying tenure

• Partner with Local Enablement teams to develop & execute the coaching program for sales leaders (First & Second-Line Sales and Solutions Managers)

• Partner with Talent Development and Employee Success to ensure alignment with key leadership development programs

• Manage a blended learning model to include virtual classroom, webinars, self-paced and just-in-time learning, and event-based training, using conventional and innovative learning technologies

• Contribute to increasing Account Executive Participation (AEP) in pipeline and revenue and reduce time to productivity for Account Executives through world class sales leader coaching

• Ensure program has clarity of purpose, tools required to meet their responsibilities, and an environment conducive to diversity of thought, innovation, and personal/career growth

Requirements:

• Strong executive presence and influencing skills; ability to partner closely and build trust with Sales Leaders at all levels

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to quickly synthesize, interpret and communicate complex information to various audiences clearly and succinctly

• Comfortable presenting to and engaging large groups, both virtual and in-person; advanced in storytelling as a skill

• Strong collaboration and problem-solving skills

• Proven track record of building, producing and hosting educational events, driving adoption, and measuring the impact of enablement programs

• Demonstrated leadership delivering results with large-scale, cross-functional teams, including analyzing and translating results into digestible communications

• Experience providing professional coaching

• Flexibility and ability to adjust on the fly to new demands

• Courage to challenge perspective and give/receive honest feedback

• Ability to quickly inspect frontline and manager-to-rep interactions to identify skill gaps and opportunities for coaching and enablement solutions

• 5+ years of experience in combined Sales/Solutions & Sales/Solutions Leadership

• 3+ years in Training and Enablement (or building and scaling new programs), with experience creating programs supporting leader development

• Knowledge of and experience with Salesforce CRM, Trailhead, Highspot, and other sales enablement tools and platforms

• Fluent in both French and English

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Completion of ICF or EMCC-recognized, Professional Coaching Certification

• Understanding of the Enterprise Cloud industry Go-To-Market motions

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred or equivalent