Posted 5 days ago

Vice President Sales Enablement & Excellence

Wolters Kluwer United States Inc. United States of America, USA - Irvine, CA, Michelle Dr
Remote Full Time

Job description

Vice President Sales Enablement & Excellence As the VP of Sales Enablement & Excellence you help architect the company’s future operating and GTM model. Reporting directly to the SVP Global Revenue Operations, you will lead the design and execution of cross-functional initiatives aimed at accelerating growth, improving operational efficiency, and fostering a culture of continuous evolution. You will bridge the gap between high-level strategy and frontline execution, ensuring that our $7B enterprise remains agile in a shifting market. This role is ideal for a strategic thinking leader who is capable of redesigning complex systems while keeping the workforce engaged and motivated. Our ideal candidate possesses both strategy and operating know-how, building and operationalizing the future vision through a deep understanding of enterprise architecture and cultural change for the benefit of Sales, Marketing and Customer success team. This is an invitation to rewrite the DNA of a multi-billion dollar global company. You will have the mandate and the executive air cover to make a lasting impact Key Responsibilities Harmonize and Execute Strategic Transformation Programs around Sales: Deliver business impact across a broad diverse transformation portfolio to accelerate growth and optimize costs through a program office and best practice adoption at scale. Establish Global Sales Enablement Center of Excellence: Drive efficiency, scale and impact by establishing a global CoE and shared services for Sales Enablement; standardizing best practices for content, processes, vendors and programs. Deliver best-in-class productivity tool and application portfolio: Partner across the global divisions to accelerate sales growth via adoption/value realization of AI and productivity tools; and deliver efficiencies by rationalizing fragmented technology investments. Strategic Roadmap Development: Partner with the executive team to identify value-creation levers and prioritize a multi-year transformation portfolio. Operational Excellence: Redesign end-to-end business processes using data-driven methodologies to eliminate silos and friction. Change Leadership: Serve as a key change agent, building high-trust relationships across the organization to overcome resistance and drive adoption of new ways of working. Governance & Value Tracking: Establish rigorous KPIs and "Value Realization" frameworks to ensure transformation efforts translate directly to the P&L. The Ideal Candidate Profile 15+ years experience with either management consultancy (McKinsey, BCG, Bain) or held a senior operational role in either Sales Enablement, Strategy or Operations within a large, complex enterprise. You understand what looks good on a slide and what actually works in a large, complex company. Proven ability to scale impact: Experience navigating the complexities of a $5B+ organization, including global footprints, legacy systems, and diverse talent pools. Systems Thinking: The ability to see the "entire map" and understand how a change in one department ripples across the whole enterprise. Analytical Rigor: A master of first principles thinking; you don't accept "that's how we've always done it" without data to back it up. Financial Literacy: Strong understanding of financial levers, capital allocation, and ROI modeling. Influence Without Authority: You can persuade teams to change their workflow through empathy and logic, not just mandate. Resilience: The ability to stay steady and optimistic during the "trough of disillusionment" inherent in any major change. Our Interview Practices To maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we’re getting to know you—not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in-person interviews in our hiring process. Please note that use of AI-generated responses or third-party support during interviews will be grounds for disqualification from the recruitment process. Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process. Compensation: $254,900.00 - $382,300.00 USD This role is eligible for Bonus. Compensation range listed is based on primary location of the position. Actual base salary offer is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skills, experience and actual hiring location. Your recruiter can share more information about the specific offer for the job location during the hiring process. Additional Information: Wolters Kluwer offers a wide variety of competitive benefits and programs to help meet your needs and balance your work and personal life, including but not limited to: Medical, Dental, & Vision Plans, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Commuter Benefits, Tuition Assistance Plan, Vacation and Sick Time, and Paid Parental Leave. Full details of our benefits are available upon request. If making a difference matters to you, then you matter to us. Join us, at Wolters Kluwer, and be part of a dynamic global technology company that makes a difference every day. We’re innovators with impact. We provide expert software and information solutions that the world’s leading professionals rely on, in the moments that matter most. You’ll make a real difference in the lives of millions of people. Together with our customers, we help to advance sustainability, health, justice, prosperity, and commerce around the world. You can thrive at Wolters Kluwer, where diversity is core to our collective strength and high performance. Be your unique self, share your creative ideas, do your best work, and take time to grow in our caring and inclusive culture where you can belong. Wolters Kluwer reported 2025 annual revenues of €6.1 billion. The group serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries, and employs more than 21,000 people worldwide. Our customers work in industries that impact the lives of millions of people every single day. Our mission is to empower our professional customers with the AI-powered solutions they need to make critical decisions, achieve successful outcomes, and increase productivity. We deliver trusted, AI-powered expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge, proprietary content, and advanced technology to provide expert-validated insights, automate workflows, and drive better outcomes. Today, nearly 70% of our digital revenues come from AI-powered solutions, reflecting our strategic focus on embedding AI into professional workflows and delivering measurable productivity gains. We are committed to helping professionals navigate complexity, improve the way they work, and solve critical challenges through cloud-based, AI-powered platforms that integrate seamlessly into their workflows and ecosystems. Our solutions are designed to deliver impact when it matters most, especially in high-stakes environments where accuracy and trust are essential. With a nearly 190-year legacy, Wolters Kluwer continues to evolve its portfolio of digital solutions and services to meet the changing needs of professionals worldwide, enabling them to work faster, make smarter decisions, and deliver better outcomes. For more information about our solutions and organization, visit www.wolterskluwer.com, or follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook. Wolters Kluwer has a dedicated team of experienced talent acquisition professionals who are ready to hear what makes you tick and share how Wolters Kluwer can help you achieve your goals and ambitions. Here Rasi Fawaz shares some tips on what recruiters are looking for on a resume. As a global organization, we recognize that solving a wide range of complex problems requires diverse perspectives and innovative thinking. We know that bringing our best to our customers, communities, and other key stakeholders requires a highly engaged and talented workforce – one that represents the diversity of those we serve and the communities where we live and work. We aim to provide a welcoming environment and equitable opportunities for all employees regardless of background, nationality, race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or religion. This principle is ingrained in our company values and articulated in our Code of Business Ethics. At Wolters Kluwer, you’ll feel valued for your contributions, and you’ll know that your health, safety, and well-being are important to us. Our well-being benefits provide tools, programs, and resources to help our diverse employees feel healthy, happy, safe, and prosperous. Our global Together we thrive well-being program reflects our commitment to supporting colleagues across physical, mental, social, and financial well-being. That commitment has been recognized externally through Ragan’s Top Places to Work for Employee Wellbeing: Large Organization in 2024. More recently, Wolters Kluwer was recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Large Employers 2026 and America’s Best Employers for Engineers 2026. In 2025, Wolters Kluwer was also recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Employers for Women. 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Skills and functions

  • Customer Support
  • Human Resources
  • Marketing
  • Operations