Field Sales Training Manager

About the role

The Manager, Field Sales Training will lead the strategy, design, deployment, and continuous improvement of field sales learning programs at PMI's Swedish Match affiliate. This role will manage and develop the Field Sales Training team, partner closely with Sales, Commercial, P&C, Talent Acquisition, Salesforce, and Trade Marketing stakeholders, and ensure training solutions are aligned to business priorities, field realities, and measurable performance outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Field Sales Training strategy and roadmap, ensuring learning priorities are directly connected to commercial objectives, regional execution needs, and field sales performance expectations.
• Manage, coach, and develop Field Sales Training team members, setting clear expectations, building facilitation capability, and fostering a high-performing, collaborative team culture.
• Partner with Sales leadership, Account teams, Retail teams, P&C, Talent Acquisition, Salesforce, and Trade Marketing to identify capability gaps and translate business priorities into targeted training interventions.
• Oversee the design, development, and facilitation of field sales training content that reflects company culture, strengthens role-based capability, and supports consistent execution across regions.
• Create success metrics, evaluate program effectiveness, and use data, field feedback, and performance insights to continuously improve learning programs and coaching approaches.
• Lead onboarding strategy and execution for new Field Sales hires, ensuring schedules, communications, learning resources, and stakeholder engagement are coordinated and effective.
• Ensure Salesforce training, tools, processes, and field resources are clearly embedded into learning programs to support adoption, productivity, and execution consistency.
• Oversee governance of the Field Sales Hub SharePoint site, ensuring materials, calendars, onboarding resources, and training assets remain current, accessible, and aligned to business needs.
• Promote an inclusive learning environment by embedding company-wide diversity, equity, engagement, and recognition priorities into training curriculum and team practices.
• Maintain a strong understanding of consumer goods, convenience retail, field sales roles, and market dynamics to ensure training solutions are practical, relevant, and business-connected.
• Anticipate and diagnose challenges facing Field Sales, equipping trainers and field leaders with tools, coaching approaches, and methods that positively impact productivity and execution.
• Define program requirements, assess current practices, manage priorities, and ensure training initiatives are delivered with quality, consistency, and measurable impact.

Requirements

• Experience leading training, learning and development, sales enablement, or field capability programs within a commercial or sales organization is desired.
• Demonstrated ability to manage, coach, and develop team members while building a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Strong facilitation, verbal communication, written communication, and executive presentation skills.
• Ability to identify performance gaps, define learning priorities, establish success measures, and connect training outcomes to business impact.
• Strong project management, stakeholder management, planning, and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a matrixed environment.
• Intermediate to advanced proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, and digital learning or knowledge management platforms.
• Salesforce experience preferred, with the ability to translate system processes into practical field training and adoption support.
• Self-motivated leader who brings energy, credibility, sound judgment, and a positive orientation toward learning and development in service of business objectives.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required.
• Prior people leadership or formal team management experience preferred.

Qualifications

• Annual Base Salary Range: $120,000 - $150,000

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Annual bonus (applicable based on level of position)
• Great medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) with a generous company match
• Incredible wellness benefits
• Commuter benefits
• Pet insurance
• Generous PTO
• Many more benefits

What we offer

We offer a competitive base salary, annual bonus (applicable based on level of position), great medical, dental and vision coverage, 401k with a generous company match, incredible wellness benefits, commuter benefits, pet insurance, generous PTO, and much more!

Our Culture

We have implemented Smart Work, a hybrid model of working that promotes flexibility in the workplace. Seize the freedom to define your future and ours. We’ll empower you to take risks, experiment and explore. Be part of an inclusive, diverse culture where everyone’s contribution is respected; Collaborate with some of the world’s best people and feel like you belong. Pursue your ambitions and develop your skills with a global business – our staggering size and scale provides endless opportunities to progress. Take pride in delivering our promise to society: To improve the lives of millions of smokers.

Equal Opportunity Employer

PMI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. PMI is headquartered in Stamford, Conn., and its U.S. affiliates have more than 2,300 employees. PMI has been an entirely separate company from Altria and Philip Morris USA since 2008. PMI’s affiliates first entered the U.S. market following the company’s acquisition of Swedish Match in late 2022. Philip Morris International and its U.S. affiliates are working to deliver a smoke-free future. Since 2008, PMI has invested $12.5 billion globally to develop, scientifically substantiate and commercialize innovative smoke-free products for adults who would otherwise continue to smoke with the goal of transitioning legal-age consumers who smoke to better alternatives. In 2022, PMI acquired Swedish Match – a leader in oral nicotine delivery – creating a global smoke-free champion led by the IQOS and ZYN brands. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized versions of PMI’s IQOS electronically heated tobacco devices and Swedish Match’s General snus as Modified Risk Tobacco Products and renewal applications for these products are presently pending before the FDA. For more information, please visit www.pmi.com/us and www.pmiscience.com. #PMIUS 31669