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Elsevier

Senior Director, Sales Enablement

RemoteUnited States only
Published
Role
Sales
Experience
Lead
Company size
Enterprise
$136.1k–$252.8k/yr
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No BS summary

Senior sales enablement leader with 12+ years in Sales/Revenue Enablement or related commercial functions, including 5+ years in senior leadership. Must have scaled B2B enablement programs, know LMS/enablement platforms, Salesforce CRM, conversation intelligence tools, MEDDPICC, and AI-enabled training. Remote-US role focused on healthcare information and clinical decision support markets.

Core skills

LMSSalesforce CRMMEDDPICC

Required skills

Conversation intelligence toolsAI-enabled training

Optional skills

MEDDICChallengerSandlerValue Selling

What you'll do

  • Design, own, and continuously optimize a best-in-class sales onboarding program that measurably reduces time-to-productivity across all sales segments and geographies.
  • Build structured, role-based learning curricula covering product knowledge, clinical domain expertise, market intelligence, and consultative selling skills — mapped to career levels from SDR through Senior Enterprise AE.
  • Establish learning pathways, certifications, and milestone assessments that create clear development expectations at every stage of a seller's career.
  • Partner with subject-matter experts to maintain and refresh content as products, competitive dynamics, and buyer personas evolve.
  • Develop and maintain a comprehensive library of sales playbooks, talk tracks, objection-handling guides, and competitive battle cards tailored to reference and clinical decision support buyers.
  • Partner with Product Marketing and Commercial to translate complex value propositions into seller-ready messaging that resonates with clinical, administrative, and procurement stakeholders.
  • Create deal-stage-specific assets — from discovery question guides to business case and ROI templates — that accelerate pipeline velocity and improve win rates.
  • Establish a content governance model ensuring assets are current, discoverable, and actively adopted across channels and geographies.
  • Own the strategy and roadmap for the sales enablement technology stack, including the LMS/enablement platform, CRM integrations, conversation intelligence, and digital sales room solutions.
  • Drive adoption of sales tools through embedded training, reinforcement programs, and usage integrated into team workflows and manager coaching cadences.
  • Define and track leading and lagging indicators of enablement effectiveness — rep ramp time, content utilization, certification completion, pipeline coverage, win rate, and quota attainment.
  • Deliver regular reporting to senior leadership on the ROI of enablement investments and their measurable impact on commercial performance.
  • Champion and embed a consistent sales methodology (MEDDPICC) across the global organization — from discovery and qualification through negotiation, closing, and renewal/expansion strategies.
  • Build and deliver targeted skills development programs addressing consultative selling, value-based selling, executive engagement, competitive differentiation, and multi-stakeholder deal management.
  • Leverage conversation intelligence, CRM, and manager coaching data to identify skill gaps at individual, team, and segment levels and design targeted, measurable interventions.
  • Create just-in-time learning assets that reinforce skills at the moment of need without disrupting active selling time.
  • Build a dedicated enablement program for first-line managers covering coaching skills, pipeline inspection, performance conversations, and team development planning.
  • Develop a structured manager certification track to ensure consistent coaching quality and capability standards across all regions and business segments.
  • Create a data-informed coaching framework that connects CRM and conversation intelligence insights to observable seller behaviors, enabling FLMs to lead development conversations with confidence.
  • Partner with Sales Leadership on manager onboarding, new hire calibration, and succession planning.
  • Serve as a strategic partner to Sales Leadership, Product Marketing, Commercial, Sales Operations, and Customer Success to align enablement priorities with GTM strategy and commercial targets.
  • Co-own the product launch readiness process with Commercial and Marketing, ensuring sellers are equipped, certified, and field-ready ahead of every major launch or market expansion.
  • Drive systematic feedback loops from the field to central functions, surfacing market intelligence that improves messaging, content, and product positioning over time.
  • Build and lead a high-performing, globally distributed Sales Enablement team — setting clear goals, developing talent, and fostering a data-driven, accountable culture.
  • Operate as a working leader: directly design and deliver select high-impact programs — particularly flagship onboarding, manager certification, and strategic skill-building initiatives — while scaling delivery through the broader team.

What they require

  • Have 12+ years of progressive experience in Sales Enablement, Sales Training, Revenue Enablement, or a closely related commercial function, with at least 5 years in a senior leadership role.
  • Demonstrated success building and scaling enablement programs in a complex, multi-segment B2B environment with $300M+ revenue scope.
  • Have a proven track record of designing and delivering programs that measurably improve rep ramp time, quota attainment, and overall seller productivity.
  • Display experience developing front-line manager enablement and coaching frameworks that translate to field adoption and performance improvement.
  • Have exceptional command of the modern sales enablement tech stack — LMS, enablement platforms, Salesforce CRM, and conversation intelligence tools.
  • Able to translate data and analytics into actionable insights, prioritized roadmaps, and executive-level narratives.
  • Able to operate effectively in a matrixed, global organization — influencing senior stakeholders and driving outcomes without direct authority.
  • Display outstanding communication, facilitation, and executive presence; equally effective presenting to the C-suite and running frontline training workshops.
  • Are comfortable operating as a working leader — capable of directly designing and facilitating high-stakes programs while simultaneously managing and growing a team.
  • Experience and fluency with AI empowered training and solutions.
  • Preferred: Industry experience in healthcare information services, clinical decision support, scientific publishing, or professional/reference information solutions.
  • Preferred: Familiarity with clinical and academic buyer personas — clinicians, researchers, library administrators, hospital procurement, and C-suite health system leaders.
  • Preferred: Formal certification or deep proficiency in a recognized sales methodology or equivalent.
  • Preferred: Experience managing an enablement function through significant organizational change, portfolio expansion, or M&A integration.
  • Preferred: MBA or advanced degree in Business, Organizational Development, Education Design, or a related field.

Benefits

  • Healthy work/life balance across the organization.
  • Numerous wellbeing initiatives.
  • Shared parental leave.
  • Study assistance.
  • Sabbaticals.
  • Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.
  • Annual incentive bonus.
  • Country specific benefits.

Elsevier Health applies innovation, facilitates insights, and helps drive more informed decision-making for customers across global health. Elsevier is a global leader in information and analytics supporting researchers and healthcare professionals.

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$136.1k–$252.8k/yr