ISO GTM Program Director - Morrisville, NC

Lenovo; North Carolina; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Lenovo is seeking a Senior Go-to-Market Program Director to lead the design, orchestration, and implementation of the ISO GTM blueprint globally. This role reports to the VP, Sales Transformation Enablement, ISO, and focuses on translating strategy into executable deployment programs.

The ideal candidate will shape job profiles, skill frameworks, and ensure readiness across geos and markets. The position is hybrid, based out of Morrisville, NC, with onsite and remote days, and requires strong

Qualifications

• 10+ years in people and program management in a global matrix organization.
• 10+ years leading GTM programs and sales strategy in the technology sector.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Sales, or related field required.

Responsibilities

• Lead ISO GTM blueprint design, governance, and implementation across geos and markets.
• Define job profiles and role expectations for priority GTM roles.
• Partner with HR and sales leadership to define required skills and assessments.
• Champion the technical sales organization blueprint and workload specialization.
• Ensure each geo has a clear path to blueprint implementation and operating model adoption.

Skills

GTM program mgmt

Sales transformation

Sales strategy

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

We are Lenovo. We do what we say. We own what we do. We WOW our customers.

Lenovo is a US$83 billion revenue global technology powerhouse, ranked #153 in the Fortune Global 500, and serving millions of customers every day in 180 markets. Focused on a bold vision to deliver Smarter Technology for All, Lenovo has built on its success as the world’s largest PC company with a full-stack portfolio of AI-enabled, AI-ready, and AI-optimized devices (PCs, workstations, smartphones, tablets), infrastructure (server, storage, edge, high performance computing and software defined infrastructure), software, solutions, and services. Lenovo’s continued investment in world-changing innovation is building a more equitable, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere. Lenovo is listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange under Lenovo Group Limited (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY).

This transformation together with Lenovo’s world-changing innovation is building a more inclusive, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere. To find out more visit www.lenovo.com, and read about the latest news via our StoryHub.

At Lenovo, we are a community of innovative thinkers, risk-takers, and people who challenge the status quo. We strive to put more innovation in the hands of more people, so they can do more amazing things. We want passionate, enthusiastic, and driven professionals who want to make an impact in a fast-paced global technology environment. Help us define our world of tomorrow.

About The Position

One Lenovo is about unlocking the power of Lenovo’s end-to-end portfolio by bringing together the sales expertise of all business groups to create more integrated customer and channel solutions. It positions Lenovo to address new business opportunities with greater scale, reach, and relevance, and strengthens Lenovo’s role as a true technology partner for customers and partners.

To achieve this ambition, Lenovo is seeking a senior Go-to-Market Program Director to lead the design, orchestration, and implementation of the ISO GTM blueprint across geographies, markets, and functions. Reporting directly to the VP, Sales Transformation Enablement, ISO, this leader will be responsible for translating the GTM strategy into an executable deployment program, aligning stakeholders around future-state operating models, and ensuring geos and markets are ready to move from blueprint to implementation.

The Director will establish and operationalize key job profiles, role expectations, and skills frameworks for priority sales roles, including Client Managers, ISG and PCSD Solution Sellers, Technical Specialists, and related specialist roles. The role will also champion the evolution of Lenovo’s technical sales organization blueprint, ensuring the right technical capability, role separation, and workload specialization are in place to support solution selling, customer intimacy, and scalable execution.

This position has a hybrid schedule based out of Morrisville, NC with 3 onsite and 2 remote days per week.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, governance, and implementation of the ISO GTM blueprint across geos and markets, translating strategic blueprint recommendations into practical execution plans
• Establish, refine, and govern key job profiles and role expectations for priority GTM roles
• Partner with HR, Sales Leadership, and enablement teams to define required skills, competencies, knowledge areas, and assessment inputs for future-state sales roles.
• Champion the technical sales organization blueprint, including role clarity, coverage principles, workload specialization, technical sales capacity, and alignment of technical resources to customer and partner engagement needs
• Ensure each geo and market has a clear path to blueprint implementation, including territory guidance, account coverage implications, role-mix planning, seller readiness, and operating model adoption.
• Influence and advise senior leadership on critical decisions, trade-offs, risks, and dependencies related to GTM design, organization evolution and market deployment.
• Define and manage governance mechanisms to monitor blueprint adoption, execution risks, role deployment and alignment to business outcomes.
• Communicate complex concepts clearly and concisely to senior executives, geo leaders, market leaders, sales managers, HR partners, and cross-functional audiences
• Prepare and deliver executive business reviews, program updates, decision documents, and recommendations for senior leadership

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive people and program management experience in a matrixed global organization.
• 10+ years of Experience leading GTM programs, digital transformation for sales, sales strategy experience in the technology sector.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Sales, or a related field required.

Preferred Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive people and program management experience in a matrixed global organization.
• 15+ years of Experience leading GTM programs, digital transformation for sales, sales strategy experience in the technology sector.
• Demonstrated success leading complex global and cross-functional transformation programs with senior Executive visibility.
• Experience partnering with HR and sales leadership on talent assessment, role transitions, skills mapping, upskilling, and change adoption.
• Strong understanding of sales operating models, GTM coverage design, sales roles and sales capability development.
• Strong project management skillset with ability to deliver high-quality business reviews, executive readouts, program updates, and decision recommendations.
• Strong written and spoken presence.
• Strong conflict resolution skillset demonstrating cultural Competency working across European, Chinese, American, Desi, and South American cultural contexts, ensuring messages are communicated with clarity and tact.
• Strong judgement and the ability to manage through ambiguity, complexity, conflicting priorities, and market-specific nuance.
• Experience and ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.
• Experience and ability to build strong commitments with senior stakeholders, leadership, corporate and enablement teams.
• Experience elevating and recognizing internal partnerships.
• Pragmatic and collaborative leadership style desired.
• MBA degree in Business, Marketing, Sales, or a related field strongly preferred.

Desired Leadership Profile

The successful candidate will be a strategic operator: someone who can connect enterprise ambition to practical execution, bring structure to ambiguity, and build confidence across leadership teams. They will be comfortable challenging legacy models, navigating complex stakeholder environments, and turning blueprint concepts into plans that markets can execute. They will combine commercial judgement, transformation discipline, and strong people leadership to help Lenovo build a clearer, more scalable, and more technically capable GTM organization.

Key Outcomes

• A clear, scalable, and executable GTM blueprint adopted by geos and markets.
• Future-state sales roles and job profiles are clearly defined, aligned, and ready for deployment.
• Skills requirements and capability expectations are embedded into assessment, enablement, and talent planning processes.
• Technical sales organization blueprint is clarified, championed, and incorporated into geo and market execution planning.
• GTM coverage plans are translated into country and market-level execution plans with clear ownership, milestones, and governance.

Lenovo’s various benefits can be found on www.lenovobenefits.com.

In compliance with Colorado's EPEWA, the expected application deadline for this position is October 2, 2026. This applies to both external and internal candidates.

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