Senior Manager Sales Enablement EMEA (French Speaking)

Job Title
Senior Manager Sales Enablement EMEA (French Speaking)

Job Description
Are you passionate about empowering sales teams to perform at their best? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, high-impact environment where you can shape strategy, influence leaders, and develop talented people? If so, this is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in driving regional performance and commercial success.

Reporting to the Senior Director of Sales Enablement, the Senior Manager, Sales Enablement will lead multiple enablement functions and act as a trusted advisor to regional commercial leadership. You will build strong relationships across the business, collaborate with senior stakeholders, and deliver programs that elevate capability, improve outcomes, and drive revenue growth.

This is a highly visible role where you'll inspire a team of Enablement Program Managers, spearhead impactful initiatives, and ensure our teams are equipped with the skills, knowledge, and tools needed to win.

This is a Hybrid position with three days per week in our Newcastle or Winnersh office

Key Responsibilities
What You'll Be Doing
• Lead & develop a high-performing team of Sales Enablement Program Managers across UKI, France, Germany and South Africa-setting clear goals, coaching for growth, and enabling them to excel.
• Own the regional Enablement plan-aligning with Business Units, Product Marketing, and Commercial Leaders to prioritise and deliver key enablement initiatives.
• Deeply understand regional OKRs, opportunities, challenges, and GTM revenue programs to ensure enablement activity is focused where it matters most.
• Deliver high-impact programs that support Sales Excellence and drive measurable improvements in performance and capability.
• Shape "Always On" Enablement through proactive identification of focus areas that support ongoing learning and skills development.
• Track, measure, and communicate impact, reporting on outputs and performance improvements across the business.
• Maintain a scalable enablement model, ensuring consistency across onboarding, coaching, and continuous learning experiences.
• Collaborate globally, sharing best practices and ensuring regional initiatives benefit from a strong global Sales Enablement community.

What You'll Bring
• A passion for developing people and driving behaviour change.
• Strong leadership experience within Sales Enablement, Revenue Enablement, or Commercial Excellence.
• Credibility with senior stakeholders and the ability to influence across regions.
• A strategic mindset with the ability to translate business goals into impactful enablement programs.
• Outstanding communication skills and a data-driven approach to measuring success.

Why Join Us?
This is your chance to shape the future of sales capability across a key region. You'll lead a talented team, work with inspiring leaders, and deliver initiatives that have a real and measurable impact on business performance.
If you're energised by building world-class enablement, driving results, and empowering teams to achieve more-we'd love to hear from you.

Benefits? We have plenty...
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• Generous bonuses and pension scheme: Up to 8% matched pension contribution plus 2% top-up by Sage.
• 25 days of paid annual leave with the option to buy up to another 5 days • 8 bank holiday days
• Paid 5 days yearly to volunteer through our Sage Foundation
• 50% income protection
• Holiday buy + sell
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
• Work away scheme for up to 10 weeks a year
• Ongoing training and professional development
• Hybrid working
• Healthy Mind app membership
• Access to various helpful memberships for finances, health and wellbeing

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Function
People

Country
United Kingdom

Office Location
Newcastle;London;Winnersh

Work Place type
Hybrid

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