Sr Manager - Sales Excellence

Job description

**SCOPE OF WORK** The Sales Excellence Lead is a change leader, who will be involved in developing a long-term roadmap for enhancing sales productivity at all levels of Sales Hierarchy using Analytics. The selected candidate will drive various sales related programs with cross functional stakeholders - Sales, Supply Chain, Marketing, product, HR, finance and IT. **ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES** **1) Sales Planning, Strategy & Target Setting** - Provide data analytics, competition analysis, industry mapping etc. for decision making w.r.t annual, monthly and quarterly sales plan & budget - Active coordination with Regional Sales teams and marketing dept to seek inputs for Sales Forecast - Drive goal setting for sales teams in collaboration with sales heads - region/zone/product wise - Work on sales org structure and deployment across all regions to ensure both appropriate coverage to attain AOP **2) Sales Productivity enhancement** - Use Sales Data Analytics to drive Sales Effectiveness on ground at the Regional / State / Town Level. Develop effective methods and processes to enhance performance of Sales Organization - Disseminate business performance related (KPI) reports for stakeholders leadership team, sales teams etc to take pre-emptive action. - Take active role in adoption of technology to automate periodic reports related to sales KPI and achievement - Personally interact with stakeholders like sales team, channel partners etc to gather information on industry developments and identify opportunities and measure the field's pulse - Identify best practices across Industry and identify gaps so as to develop the 'LPL WAY' of sales & marketing across different levels of sales organization - Leverage and implement AI tools across Sales Force Automation to enhance sales team productivity **3) Sales Force Automation** - Understand the current sales process and verticals and conceptualize the design of an efficient sales performance management tool - Drive adoption/usage of the tool among sales team and effective utilization of the data - Develop , roll-out and train team on the manual/ SOP for the usage of the tool and create value for the tool - Implement AI tools in SFA app **4) Sales Force Enablement** - Developing a high performance culture, capability building and learning mindset for the field force. - Increase sales capability and drive behavioural change with the focus and lens around sales process & methodology based on sales competencies - Product, Team performance management and Sales selling skills Trainings **PREFERRED CANDIDATE PROFILE** - Experience : 5 to 8 years - Education : MBA required - Experience in sales excellence and channel marketing required