Sales Training and Development Manager

About the role

The Sales Training and Development Manager will design and deliver sales educational programs that will ultimately assist to increase the overall performance of our sales teams and ensure they have the competencies and skills to achieve their goals. This requires a commitment to work closely with sales, sales leadership, marketing, and key stakeholders to identify challenges and recommend ways to increase productivity. This position is to be located near a major airport in the Central or West time zones, with primary work location in Sparks, MD (7 Loveton Circle). The primary responsibility is to develop and implement best-in-class sales readiness and training programs across the full Advanced Diagnostic portfolio including, but not limited to, Microbiology, Molecular, Point of Care, and Lab Automation instrumentation and assays. This includes developing learning materials and a structured curriculum to support new-hire sales associates, addressing evolving market conditions through targeted educational initiatives, conducting skills gap analyses, and evaluating outcomes following each training engagement. A sound understanding of professional selling and operational best practices are keys to success in this role. The ideal candidate will take a consultative and strategic approach to training, professional development, and customer experience. The goal is to build knowledge and competencies to support business objectives, maximizing sales execution, and elevating effectiveness to deliver high impact results. The successful Sales Training and Development Manager is an energetic team player who can inspire and motivate others while building a wide network. This person must have exceptional interpersonal skills, and can establish open, collaborative communication channels with cross-departmental colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Review and understand the strategic imperatives for the Advanced Diagnostics platform to design and adjust educational curriculum in support of the business strategy.
• Facilitate onboarding product training program, design courses and education based on sound adult learning principles with excellent communication and coaching skills.
• Creates instructor-led, distance learning, video and web based, and other formatted curricula and content as needed for new-hire classes, supporting new-product launches, and development opportunities for all sales associates.
• Field travel with new and in-role sales associates to provide coaching and insight to elevate sales skills and performance.
• Advanced sales training: responsible for developing and implementing training for tenured sales personnel and field sales managers as appropriate and necessary.
• New product training: responsible for working with Sales Enablement, Marketing and Product Management in development of training programs for new product launches.
• Works collaboratively with sales management, marketing, sales enablement, and field sales training to ensure that the curricula, content, and sales training agenda drives alignment to the fiscal year Sales Marketing Action Plan.
• Assesses talent by performing skill gap analysis to identify areas of improvement and creates targeted training to meet the evolving business demands.
• Data-driven approach to measuring effectiveness of training programs by participating in field travel with new associates. Tracks and maintains associates' training score card.
• Ability/willingness to travel up to 70% to the home office, in the field, and required