Senior Sales Training Specialist - San Francisco, CA, United States - Invitae

Description

The Sales Trainer will be responsible for planning, creating and delivering effective sales enablement training for field-based sales teams.

In alignment with commercial strategy, this role will focus on training and development for new hires, as well as continuing education for Invitae Regional Managers (RMs).

Areas of focus will include:
sales skills & methodology, sales processes, product knowledge, and technologies, tools & resources.

Collaborate with key stakeholders to identify sales training needs, priorities, ideal format and cadence

• Develop comprehensive sales training plans in line with commercial objectives
• Partner cross functionally to create content and assess training effectiveness for the sales team
• Lead virtual and live training events for field sales teams
• Actively participate in all training phases in collaboration with other training teammates, including new hire training and ongoing training for RMs on product launches/enhancements, workflow changes, product knowledge, sales skills, and salesforce effectiveness

A bachelor's degree or higher

• 10 years of professional experience ideally in a sales role and a minimum of 3 years of experience in sales training/enablement, learning & development, or a customer-facing role that requires a great deal of project management and cross collaboration
• Excellent project management and organizational skills
• Experience working across an organization and developing collaborative partnerships with a variety of stakeholders

Willingness to travel occasionally (Note:
While this role will not require regular travel, there will be occasional overnights required for attendance at sales training supported events/activities such as our annual Global Sales Meeting)