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The Amazon Business Enablement, Change Management, and Communications (ECMC) Team is seeking a Sales Onboarding Lead who can build and deliver sales-focused training content to customer facing sales roles and drive their success with their enterprise customers. The ideal candidate will have a strong sales and/or enablement background, superior program management skills, and a history of designing and delivering high-quality sales training programs. This role will design and deliver engaging and dynamic new hire training programs. This role will collaborate with the broader sales enablement team on projects that remove barriers and accelerate sellers’ success.
This role is located in the following Amazon locations: Seattle, WA; Arlington, VA; Austin, TX
Key job responsibilities
• Design and deliver sales onboarding programs for Amazon Business customer facing teams including Sales and Professional Services; skills include customer engagement, sales methodology, internal sales tools, Amazon Culture, etc. Trainings will target new hires.
• Design and develop creative, learner-centered, performance-based training materials in multiple modalities, e.g. instructor led and eLearning delivery
• Design and execute operational aspects of training program including annual training calendar, registration processes, agenda and content, speaker schedules, etc.
• Identify top challenges across Amazon Business (AB) that are preventing salespeople from delivering results and ensure those concepts are included in the appropriate learning pathways
• Partner with other ECMC team members to create programs, tools, and resources that help new hires overcome blockers (online job aids & references, instructional content that supports classroom training events, and designing content for e-learning solutions)
• Seek input and partnership from the diverse set of stakeholders (Sales Leadership, Sellers, Sales Operations, etc.), that have a stake in Amazon Business Enablement programs
• Select and maintain pool of facilitators (sellers or product SMEs) to lead specific onboarding sessions; define and maintain the Onboarding Buddy Program
• Develop and maintain training KPIs/data that contribute to monitoring the performance of training programs; iterate continuously based on these metrics
• Support additional Sales Enablement projects as needed
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field
- 5+ years of experience facilitating training or delivering Sales Enablement programs including Sales Methodology, Salesforce training, and business skills programs to sales audiences
- 3+ years of B2B/C/G direct sales or sales training experience
- Current experience with Microsoft Office applications such as Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint as well as online training tools such as Canva, Rise 360, Amazon Learn or Learning Management Systems
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Strong communication (written/verbal) and interpersonal skills to lead engaging and high quality learning sessions
- Experience with scoping and defining requirements for sales improvement projects.
- Project management experience, independently designing and managing budget and deadlines
- Experience with recording or editing in training software tools
- Experience partnering with cross-functional teams and managing internal stakeholders
- Ability to travel 1-2 times per quarter to deliver training to audiences across the US and Costa Rica
- Ability to deliver training content in Spanish is a plus
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $120,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $199,300/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.