Sales Training & Coaching Specialist
Are you passionate about developing high-performing sales teams? Do you enjoy coaching people to achieve lasting behavioural change and measurable results? If so, we would love to hear from you
About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity to join our growing Sales Coaching function and play a key role in shaping the capability and success of our sales teams across our People, Secure and IMSM brands. Working within a collaborative team, you'll help embed best practice, drive sales excellence, and support lasting behaviour change that delivers real commercial results.
Hybrid/remote with regular travel to our Leeds, Stevenage or Chester office as part of a collaborative and connected team, you'll work closely with sales leaders and colleagues across the Group to strengthen capability, improve performance, and help create a culture of continuous learning and development.
What You Will Be Doing
As a trusted coach and enablement partner, you will:
Deliver impactful one-to-one and group coaching sessions, both virtually and in person
Support sales professionals in developing consultative selling techniques, qualification excellence, and confidence in cross-service opportunities
Leverage conversation intelligence platforms and Salesforce insights to identify performance trends and tailor coaching interventions
Help colleagues translate learning into practical, measurable improvements in sales performance
Maintain and continually enhance our Sales Hub, ensuring teams have access to high-quality playbooks, battlecards, sales collateral, and coaching resources
Partner with sales leaders and stakeholders to embed our sales methodology and create greater consistency across teams
Contribute to the design and evolution of onboarding programmes, coaching frameworks, learning pathways, and enablement best practices
Champion a culture of continuous learning, development, and commercial excellence
About You
You are passionate about helping people succeed and understand what it takes to thrive in a commercial sales environment.
Whether your background is in sales enablement, sales training, learning and development, or performance coaching, you'll bring a proven ability to develop individuals and teams through effective coaching and structured development programmes.
You'll be comfortable operating within a fast-paced B2B environment and able to demonstrate how your coaching and enablement initiatives have delivered tangible business results.
You will also
Use data and insights confidently to identify opportunities and measure success
Build strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels of the business
Influence positive change through collaboration, credibility, and effective communication
Take a proactive and solutions-focused approach to performance improvement
Be a passionate advocate for continuous learning and professional development
What You Will Bring
Essential
Experience coaching or developing sales professionals in a target-driven environment
A track record of delivering coaching, training, or enablement programmes that drive measurable performance improvement
Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
An analytical mindset with the ability to translate data into meaningful coaching actions
Experience working with CRM platforms such as Salesforce
Desirable
Experience within a B2B sales or commercial environment
Familiarity with conversation intelligence platforms such as Sybill, Gong, Chorus, Jiminny, or CallMiner
Knowledge of recognised sales methodologies including MEDDIC, MEDDPICC, Challenger, SPIN, or Sandler
Experience creating learning content, sales playbooks, battlecards, coaching frameworks, or enablement resources
Experience using AI-powered coaching or enablement tools to enhance learning and performance outcomes
Ready to Make an Impact
If you are passionate about coaching, motivated by developing others, and excited by the opportunity to shape sales excellence across a growing organisation, we'd love to hear from you.
- Department
- Sales
- Location
- Leeds
- Remote status
- Hybrid
- Employment type
- Full-time
Leeds
Our Work Culture
At WorkNest, we recognise the importance of having an engaged, healthy, diverse and inclusive culture. This is not only the right thing to do - it also strengthens our business.
We believe a talent-driven organisation must also be a diverse one. We are committed to creating a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion across everything we do: how we serve our clients, develop our products and services, and support our colleagues.
Effective people management and engagement are integral to our business, both in terms of what we do and how we do it.
As part of this commitment, WorkNest and Axiom have signed up to the UN Sustainable Development Goals on Gender Equality (Goal 5) and Decent Work and Economic Growth (Goal 8). We report annually to our Board and investors on our progress.
About Worknest Secure
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