Director of Learning Solutions Sales – North America (Remote)

Wherever you find ambitious companies investing in their people, you’ll find Learning Pool

Learning Pool is among the fastest growing workplace e-learning companies in the world, servicing more than 1200 customers and millions of learners globally. Our learning platform offers global businesses a smarter way to prepare their people to perform by using intelligent data to deliver personalized learning experiences at scale. Committed to data-driven outcomes, we ensure our customers can use learning to produce a highly skilled workforce, new competitive advantages, and an organization prepared for whatever the future might bring.

Learning Pool is a Platinum Investor in People award-winner, listed in Great Places to Work and has earned a coveted spot on the 2023 Best Workplaces for Women. We are also very proud to be a B Corp certified organization. As a B Corp company, we have joined a community of like-minded businesses committed to using their power to make a positive impact on the world.

Learning Pool welcomes passionate people from all kinds of backgrounds. We are a diverse team working in offices, and remotely, across Europe and North America. We take great pride in our shared work and are committed to building great software in a sustainable way.

So, if you’ve got what we’re looking for and the desire to join a team that values creativity and empowerment, then get in touch.

About the role 

We are ready to double-down on our existing go-to-market investment in North America and are looking for an outstanding Director of Learning Solutions Sales in North America. This role will report directly to the Senior Vice President of North American Sales. 

The ideal candidate will be a seasoned Sales Manager who is comfortable driving sales performance, and who will continue to optimize the Learning Solutions Sales team in the coming years. 

What you will be doing

Roles and Responsibilities will include:

• Continually driving new business sales performance through process, team development and sales strategy.
• Developing and maintaining a healthy new business pipeline through structured Account Executive activity, coaching and customer engagement.
• Assisting Account Executives in developing winning sales strategies, tailored customer solutions and ongoing territory management.
• Supporting your team with complex negotiations and the closing of new business selling opportunities.
• Taking personal ownership of your team’s sales targets and driving the growth strategy for the Learning Solutions tech stack.
• Routinely assess your team’s sales performance, activities and forecasts to determine progress and required improvements. 
• Developing and maintaining an accurate new business sales forecast with a bias for accuracy and attainment.
• Promoting collaboration with internal business partners including Solutions Engineering, Customer Success, and Senior Leadership.
• Ensuring the Account Executives leverage technology and sales techniques that drive results.
• Ensuring adherence to data hygiene requirements in Salesforce and routinely inspecting for proper opportunity management.
• Hiring and developing talent to maintain a team who are committed to continuous improvement and perform to the highest levels. 
• Support a culture of continuous improvement within the established vision and values of the company and contribute to a “lean startup” style environment of constant experimentation and learning.

Who we are looking for:

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

• A proven track record: You will have extensive experience of new business sales management in SaaS sales organizations supporting B2B sales with a recurring revenue model, and experience with the compliance and/or learning tech markets.
• People Management: You will have extensive experience managing revenue focused teams through sales cycles, throughout commercial and enterprise level businesses, while optimizing productive capacity throughout.
• Sales expertise: You will be experienced at leveraging MEDDPICC methodologies to help drive consistency in your team’s performance.
• Technical competence: You will have in-depth experience with sales related technology and tools including CRM management and SaaS metric reporting.
• Service orientation: You will be comfortable supporting your team with a hands-on approach to our largest, most important sales opportunities. This will include experience cultivating and maintaining senior executive relationships.
• Data-driven in making decisions, setting goals, and driving success in the organization, while also embracing ‘hands on’ sales and qualitative metrics of success.
• Adaptability: You will be comfortable in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment with independence and excellence while managing simultaneous projects
• Leadership: You will be an empathetic leader with the ability to affect change and lead the team in an environment where pace and dealing with ambiguity is important and delivering successful change management is essential.
• Delivering with others: You will demonstrate excellence in building productive and close internal relationships, especially with other teams central to our mission such as Marketing, Customer Sales, Solutions Engineering, and Revenue Operations.
• Critical thinking: You will be skilled in dealing with complex customers to find solutions which support your team, satisfy the customer, and grow the business.
• Commercial acumen: With an understanding of the compliance/learning technology markets, you will have the ability to forecast with pinpoint accuracy, tracking progress and creating a culture of forecasting accuracy within your team. 

Working at Learning Pool 

With over 450 people across seven offices globally, the Learning Pool team is filled with people who have a real passion for what they do and a fresh approach to partnering with customers.

Learning Pool is a proud winner of numerous industry awards for our work with clients from institutions including the Queen's Award for Enterprise (Innovation), Learning Technologies, e-Learning Industry, Stevie Customer Service, Brandon Hall, and the Institute of Customer Service. In addition, Learning Pool has been named as an industry "Strategic Leader" by the Fosway Group.

Working Environment:

This job operates in a professional home office environment. It is expected the employee has a separate dedicated working space within their home. This role routinely uses standard office equipment and productivity tools such as computers, phones, email, instant messaging, Google collaborative tools, and project management platforms.

Mental Requirements:

Judgment, reasoning and decision-making, interpersonal interactions, memorization, strong organizational skills, math skills, simple and complex reading and writing, critical problem solving, significant attention to detail, critical thinking, and development of action plans.

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to see, talk, and hear. The employee frequently is required to sit; stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. Long hours working at the computer, using a mouse, and a keyboard.

Learning Pool is an equal opportunity employer.

If you experience any problems with submitting your application, please contact jobs@learningpool.com.

Closing date for receipt of applications is 5:00 PM EST, April 26, 2024