Role profile:
The Regional Sales Performance Enablement (SPE) Director is a business partner to the Group Head of Sales for APAC and the SAM APAC Leadership Team. The role supports and enables Sales & Account Management (SAM) in APAC by providing data insights to drive growth and manage risks, and ensuring that sales tools and processes are optimized.
Role summary:
The role is a key part of the SAM APAC Leadership Team, providing structure and consistency to the operating rhythm and ensuring the leadership team is well positioned to achieved against strategic plans and objectives. This entails direct management of the Regionally Managed Accounts Enablement Manager, as well as taking a wider view of how we enable Account Management, Sales, Customer Success and other roles across the region.
You will lead the business by bringing data driven insights which deliver growth and anticipate risks across the entire APAC business. Through partnership with relevant functions, you will encourage adoption of enablement tools, processes and standard methodologies, and identify areas for improvement.
What you'll be doing:
The role has a number of responsibilities which fall into three areas: Business Management, Business Partnering and Improving Productivity
Business Management:
- Ensure APAC operating rhythm is coordinated and driving value, including account plan reviews, regional leadership meetings and preparation for global reviews
- Build effective communication plans for APAC
- Bringing SPE APAC based business partners together to align support we give to the APAC LT
Business Partnering
- Support APAC leadership to run the business as a strategic advisor
- Build action plans to improve the health of the business through regular review of key leading and lagging indicators
- Proactively review analytics to bring insights and drive a data-driven decision making culture
- Coordinate and translate business requirements for delivery at scale
Improving Productivity
- Drive scale to our business by measuring adoption of standards and embedding change (e.g. TOM execution)
- Continuous improvement through feedback loops
- Build strong partnership across LSEG to identify areas of productivity improvements
- Optimize and embed RACI model
What you'll bring:
- The successful candidate will have the ability to lead through influence, run and land change, coordinate cadences, manage action plans, and derive insight from dashboards and analytics
- Strong collaboration skills as we partner across a wide range of functions and seniorities
- Advantageous to have a background in Sales Enablement or a frontline Sales and Account Management role, and knowledge of sales tools such as Salesforce
What you’ll get in return:
- Work closely with leadership teams, supporting them to agree strategic direction and manage actions plans to deliver against goals
- High profile within the business and the opportunity to build a well rounded perspective of how LSEG operates
- We recognize that to attract the best talent, we need to be flexible, and we are open to discussing work arrangements. We take a hybrid approach to workplace, this role is blended