Commercial Training & Competency Program Manager (dfm)

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At Leica Microsystems we have been shaping the future for over 175 years with groundbreaking optical and digital solutions. With a culture rooted in customer focus innovation and teamwork we lead the market in microscopy imaging and analysis unveiling the invisible and empowering our customers to build a better healthier world.

Joining Leica Microsystems means contributing to scientific discoveries and supporting surgeons in making critical decisions. Our advanced microscopes and AI-based image analysis solutions enable users to gain profound insights into development and engineering challenges. Here you will work on meaningful projects alongside passionate colleagues driving progress and pushing the boundaries of whats possible.

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The Commercial Training & Competency Program Manager is responsible for designing deploying and governing a global and consistent commercial capability development framework across all Regions. This role partners closely with Regional Commercial Leaders Business Units (BUs) and DBS leaders to build a robust and scalable learning ecosystem strengthen sales competencies and ensure commercial teams perform at their highest potential.

This role requires an experienced commercial leader with strong understanding of sales cycles and process in a B2B environment customer engagement and commercial excellence practices. The role is both strategic and hands-on driving global alignment while enabling local execution.

This position reports to the Director Global Commercial Operations and will be part of the Global Commercial Operations team.

The position will be fully remote in Italy.

In this role you will have the opportunity to:

• Develop and lead the global commercial training strategy by establishing a consistent scalable learning framework onboarding programs and blended learning solutions across all regions.

• Build and govern a global sales competency framework that defines required capabilities assesses proficiency identifies gaps and drives development plans for all commercial roles.

• Partner with Regional Commercial Leaders Business Units and DBS teams to align training priorities ensure content relevance and drive accountability for capability development.

• Establish robust training governance and operational excellence through standardized processes content management reporting compliance oversight learning platforms and Train-the-Trainer networks.

• Measure impact and continuously improve commercial capabilities by tracking training effectiveness monitoring competency progress analyzing performance gaps and providing actionable insights to leadership.

The essential requirements of the job include

• Bachelors or masters degree in Business Training & Development Commercial Management or comparable experience

• 7 years in Sales Commercial Excellence Sales Enablement or Training roles

• Demonstrated ability to build and manage global programs and projects

• Excellent facilitation communication and influencing skills

• Strong command of MS Office and in particular MS Excel and large language model (LLM) based answer engines such as M365 Copilot ChatGPT or Claude

Travel Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements

• Ability to travel 20% of time

It would be a plus if you also possess experience in:

• Working knowledge with Learning Management Systems (Cornerstone Workday Learning)

Leica Microsystems a Danaher operating company offers a broad array of comprehensive competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether its a health care program or paid time off our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.

Base salary and level of employment

This role is classified under the applicable CCNL Commercio asQuadro which defines minimum terms job classification and baseline progression frameworks. The expected gross annual salary range for this role is85000 - 131000 determined based on objective criteria such as experience skills and role-related competencies.

Bonus / Incentive Pay

This job is also eligible for bonus / incentive pay. This is the target earnings as 20% of base annual salary subject to objective eligibility criteria and performance conditions as set out in the applicable scheme terms and conditions.

This job is also eligible for a comprehensive package of regarding these benefits will be provided separately.

At Leica Microsystems we believe in designing a better more sustainable workforce. We recognize the benefits of flexible remote working arrangements for eligible roles and are committed to providing enriching careers no matter the work arrangement. This position is eligible for a remote work arrangement in which you can work remotely from your home. Additional information about this remote work arrangement will be provided by your interview team. Explore the flexibility and challenge that working for Leica Microsystems can provide.

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