Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Lenovo is hiring a Senior Manager, Worldwide SSG Sales Programs to design, implement, and scale strategic sales programs that accelerate revenue growth, improve seller productivity, and advance strategic priorities across geographies. The role coordinates portfolio, sales, and enablement teams; leads worldwide initiatives; and provides governance, performance management, and executive visibility.
Responsibilities
- Design, launch, and scale worldwide sales programs aligned to SSG business priorities and growth objectives
- Translate corporate strategy into actionable sales motions, campaigns, and field execution plans
- Drive adoption and execution of strategic growth initiatives across all geographic regions
- Establish program frameworks, success metrics, governance models, and reporting
- Partner with portfolio leaders, offering teams, geo sales organizations, marketing, enablement, business management, and operations teams
- Serve as the central point of alignment between worldwide strategy and regional execution
- Influence senior leaders and stakeholders in a highly matrixed global environment without direct authority
- Lead cross-functional teams to resolve execution challenges and accelerate business outcomes
- Lead and develop a team of strategic program managers responsible for execution of worldwide initiatives
- Build organizational capability in program management, business analysis, AI adoption, sales productivity, and change management
- Foster collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement throughout the organization
Skills
- 8+ years of experience in sales programs, sales enablement, GTM strategy, program management, or a related commercial function
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience in business, marketing, sales, technology, program management, or a related discipline
- People leadership experience, including setting priorities, developing talent, allocating work, and leading program management teams
- Demonstrated ability to leverage AI and generative AI tools to improve personal and team productivity, accelerate program development, synthesize business insights, automate repeatable work, and enable more data-driven decision-making, with a willingness to continuously experiment with new AI-enabled ways of working
- AI-first mindset and demonstrated digital fluency, with experience applying AI tools to increase productivity, accelerate decision-making, improve program execution, and create new, scalable ways of working across global teams
- Proven ability to translate business strategy into executable sales motions, programs, campaigns, and governance frameworks, consistent with the current role's responsibility for building and launching worldwide sales programs
- Strong executive stakeholder management and influencing skills, with experience aligning senior leaders and teams across organizational boundaries
- Demonstrated ability to use business insights, KPIs, pipeline metrics, adoption metrics, and performance reporting to evaluate programs and drive corrective actions
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to communicate strategy, program performance, risks, and recommendations to executive audiences
Benefits
- Home-based anywhere in the U.S.; if near the Chicago or Raleigh offices, a hybrid model with three days a week in the office.
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