Location: Hyderabad, Telangana
At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is remote, meaning it will be performed from the designated home work location upon time of hire, and any changes to this home work location requires a review of remote status and approval.
Sales Development is searching for a Vendor Sales Coach to join our team. In this role, you will partner with our vendor-based SDs (Sales Development) to educate and persuade new customers to embrace LinkedIn’s different platform capabilities. The Vendor Sales Coach will help us penetrate multiple markets by onboarding new SD agents and/or expanding successful ongoing relationships with existing SD vendors.
This role has US staffing customers working in US time zones and hence flexibility to accommodate US work timings is a requirement in this role.
Responsibilities:
- Onboard and coach vendor-based SDs to the LinkedIn Talent product suite with best practices and systems knowledge.
- Own SD operations relating to coaching, training, mentoring, KPI (Key Performance Indicators) development and performance tracking.
- Monitor weekly SD performance metrics through rigorous team performance diagnoses, creating Vendor performance plans to share insights with SD --Vendors & Vendor Leadership via weekly office hours, 1:1 SD trainings- tracking follow-ups on actions to deliver revenue and Vendor expectations.
- Create content for playbooks on all things SD and beyond that will enable broader vendor teams' success.
- Build an influential & trusted partner relationships with vendor sales management providing appropriate support & guidance on best practices to run a successful SD motion.
- Identify opportunities to improve SD outcomes including finding innovative and scalable ways to deliver results, unlock growth and partner with central teams to execute vendor operations improvement initiatives.