Sage is searching for a Global Craft Leader - Sales to play a key role in delivering our sales excellence standard by creating and leading the global sales community, ensuring all sales craft colleagues have the clarity, skills, competencies, and resources they need to successfully deliver their craft and develop their careers within Sage. In this role you will foster a sense of community among the sales craft by promoting open communication and mutual support, facilitating collaboration to ensure alignment and clarity in GTM strategies. This includes coordinating meetings, resolving conflicts, and promoting a culture of teamwork and cooperation.

You will be accountable for sales craft role design, working closely with global craft leader peers to define clear and aligned responsibilities, accountabilities, key performance indicators and measures of success, setting the standards for cross functional collaboration to drive sales excellence. You will own the creation and maintenance of functional sales blueprints and represent the sales craft during process design and technology and tool adoption, combining with Sales Enablement to develop training and coaching to implement and optimise the productivity, predictability, and effectiveness of the sales craft.

Working closely with HR the Global Craft Leader Sales will document compelling Job Descriptions, align competencies and skills to levels and reward building career pathways that promote high performance and self-development among crafts.

This is a highly collaborative role and will work closely with the Sales Excellence and Adoption Lead, Transformation team, GTM Design and scaling lead and other Craft Leaders. You will seek to develop champions in regions/segments/products to scale their reach into the community and own key stakeholder relationships with HR, Reward, RTR Performance and Planning, RTR Growth, RTR Sales and Success Digital Transformation, Enablement, BU, L+D, GTM and Commercial Leaders.

This is a global role available in multiple locations, with a preference for Newcastle (UK) and Atlanta (US). Colleagues in other locations will be considered based on the requirements of the role and candidate skills and experience.