Company Description LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

Job Description 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 hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.

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.

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.

Qualifications Basic Qualifications:

• 2+ years of sales/sales development experience

Preferred qualification:

• Business fluency in English and other languages is beneficial.
• Strong prior experience in sales development, account services, marketing, or business development.
• Knowledge of India and APAC markets and nuances of prospecting within them.
• Experience managing vendor-based teams.

Suggested Skills:

• Sales Coaching
• Ability to impart knowledge
• Advanced knowledge of sales development tools
• Vendor training/management

Additional Information India Disability Policy LinkedIn is an equal employment opportunity employer offering opportunities to all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. For more information on our equal opportunity policy, please visit https://legal.linkedin.com/content/dam/legal/Policy_India_EqualOppPWD_9-12-2023.pdf

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