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Program Manager, Sales Enablement

Tanium

Job Description

Posted on: 
November 25, 2024

Summary and company overview

The Basics:

Hybrid Role, 3 days onsite in one of our US office locations - Addison, TX, Emeryville, CA, Durham, NC, Reston, VA, or Bellevue, WA!

Tanium’s Sales Enablement team is seeking a detail-oriented, and highly strategic Program Manager. This role focuses on programs that enhance sales tools, systems to improve operational excellence, and sales methodologies—specifically MEDDPICC. The Program Manager will foster alignment of Tanium objectives directly to the support of our sales efforts. This individual will be passionate in the upscaling of skills and tools our sales teams need while also being able to support our sellers and leaders in the field as needed. This position will report to the Head of Global Sales Enablement.

The Program Manager supports all segments of go-to-market sales teams, with the focus on Global Programs. This position is an independent contributor but operates as an integral part of a high performing Sales Enablement team.

About Tanium

Tanium delivers the industry's only true real-time cloud-based endpoint management and security offering. Its converged endpoint management (XEM) platform is real-time, seamless, and autonomous, allowing security-conscious organizations to break down silos between IT and Security operations that results in reduced complexity, cost, and risk. Securing more than 32M endpoints around the world, Tanium's customers include Fortune 100 organizations, top US retailers, top US commercial banks, and branches of the U.S. Military. It also partners with the world's biggest technology companies, system integrators, and managed service providers to help customers realize the full potential of their IT investments. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list for nine consecutive years and ranks on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For. For more information on The Power of Certainty™, visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Company-wide Subject Matter experts and stakeholders to develop and deliver programs related to:
  • Evaluations of sales tools, skills and processes to continually improve and streamline sales efforts.
  • Measure and drive operational excellence with both global and regional programs.
  • Role-related skill development delivered via all methods: instructor led sessions, virtual instructor led, web-based training (WBT), and meeting facilitation.
  • Develop instructional recordings and artifacts that can be found and applied easily.
  • Conduct team trainings- virtual and in-person.
  • Assist in the design, build and delivery of larger programs, such as Sales Kick Off.
  • Partner with Sales Leadership to:
  • Plan and execute divisional enablement strategies and programs.
  • Drive measurable, improved sales performance through content, skills, tools.
  • Establish processes for communicating, tracking, and maintaining documentation related to the successful execution of enablement strategies and programs.
  • Consult, prioritize, build, or outsource learning solutions that align to business needs.
  • Program management and facilitation of workshops across multiple sales practices (MEDDPICC, Account Planning, Forecasting, QBRs, Leadership Training, Asset Library initiatives, etc.)
  • Serve as a trusted advisor and liaison, representing the needs of regional field sellers and leaders.
  • Ensure enablement efforts are aligned and integrated across the entire sales force and buying cycle, from lead generation to closed business.
  • Establish strategies, and metrics for cross-communication between Field Sales and Sales leadership, including our Partner team.
  • Standardize operational cadence and process consistency between Field Sales teams.

Job Requirements

Education:

  • First-level university degree, advanced university degree preferred or equivalent experience.

Experience:

  • 3+ years Program Management experience in Sales Enablement
  • 5+ years of successful Technology/Enterprise Field Sales.
  • Sales Management experience is a plus.
  • Enhance sales productivity by simplifying processes and evaluating new tools.
  • Technical aptitude to evaluate and teach on new sales tools and methods.
  • Comfortable working with sales operations, or other technical teams, to implement or improve sales tools.
  • High proficiency with Salesforce.com, MEDDPICC, Copilot, LMS, CMS, and other selling and enablement systems.
  • Excellent interpersonal and team building skills; ability to influence and drive change across functional teams, specifically Sales, Marketing, Technical, Operations, and Enablement.
  • Ability to create and dynamically facilitate across many sales segments.
  • Track and enforce operational excellence metrics across many programs.
  • Has a deep understanding of the challenges and requirements of technology sales.
  • Excellent communication skills (i.e. written, verbal, presentation)
  • Business and financial acumen combined with a high EQ.

Others:

  • Thrive in a fast paced, self-directed environment.
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and enjoys creating solutions in uncharted situations.
  • Can identify needs and create corresponding programs that often necessitate collaboration cross functionally.
  • Drives results while fostering a positive culture that thrives on continual improvement.

Additional commentary

On a mission. Together.

At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.

We are an organization with stakeholders around the world and it’s imperative that the diversity of our customers and communities is reflected internally in our team members. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that only together can we do great things.

Each of our team members has 5 days set aside as volunteer time off (VTO) to contribute to the communities they live in and give back to the causes they care about most.

What you’ll get

The annual base salary range for this full-time position is $80,000 to $235,000. This range is an estimate for what Tanium will pay a new hire. The actual annual base salary offered may be adjusted based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, location, education, skills, training, and experience.

In addition to an annual base salary, team members will receive equity awards and a generous benefits package consisting of medical, dental and vision plan, family planning benefits, health savings account, flexible spending account, transportation savings account, 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match, life, accident and disability coverage, business travel accident insurance, employee assistance programs, disability insurance, and other well-being benefits.

Summary and company overview

The Basics:

Hybrid Role, 3 days onsite in one of our US office locations - Addison, TX, Emeryville, CA, Durham, NC, Reston, VA, or Bellevue, WA!

Tanium’s Sales Enablement team is seeking a detail-oriented, and highly strategic Program Manager. This role focuses on programs that enhance sales tools, systems to improve operational excellence, and sales methodologies—specifically MEDDPICC. The Program Manager will foster alignment of Tanium objectives directly to the support of our sales efforts. This individual will be passionate in the upscaling of skills and tools our sales teams need while also being able to support our sellers and leaders in the field as needed. This position will report to the Head of Global Sales Enablement.

The Program Manager supports all segments of go-to-market sales teams, with the focus on Global Programs. This position is an independent contributor but operates as an integral part of a high performing Sales Enablement team.

About Tanium

Tanium delivers the industry's only true real-time cloud-based endpoint management and security offering. Its converged endpoint management (XEM) platform is real-time, seamless, and autonomous, allowing security-conscious organizations to break down silos between IT and Security operations that results in reduced complexity, cost, and risk. Securing more than 32M endpoints around the world, Tanium's customers include Fortune 100 organizations, top US retailers, top US commercial banks, and branches of the U.S. Military. It also partners with the world's biggest technology companies, system integrators, and managed service providers to help customers realize the full potential of their IT investments. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list for nine consecutive years and ranks on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For. For more information on The Power of Certainty™, visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.

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