Senior Manager, Worldwide SSG Sales Programs

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The Worldwide SSG Program Leader is responsible for designing, implementing, and scaling strategic sales programs that accelerate revenue growth, improve seller productivity, and drive adoption of Lenovo's strategic priorities across all geographies. The role serves as the central orchestrator between SSG portfolio teams, geo sales organizations, enablement leaders, and executive stakeholders to transform business priorities into repeatable, measurable growth programs.

This leader drives worldwide initiatives spanning AI, Hybrid Cloud Services, Digital Workplace Solutions, Sustainability, Growth & Performance Services (GPS), account expansion, and strategic sales motions. The role ensures global consistency while enabling local market flexibility, providing governance, performance management, and executive visibility across key programs.

This role offers the flexibility to be home-based anywhere in the U.S. If you're near our Chicago or Raleigh offices, we follow a friendly hybrid model with three days a week in the office - great for collaboration and connection!

Responsibilities:

Strategic Program Development & Execution

- 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

Cross-Functional Leadership

- 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

People Leadership

- 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.

Qualifications:

- 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

Preferred Qualifications:

- People leadership experience, including setting priorities, developing talent, allocating work, and leading program management teams. The current role includes leadership of a multi-country team.
- 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.

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