Head of Sales Enablement

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ABOUT THE ROLE

The Head of Sales Enablement leads on the development and implementation of our global sales enablement strategy. This is a pivotal role in our transformation journey as we equip and empower our sales teams with the skills, training, tools, and insights they need to drive growth in English Language Teaching (ELT).

The Head Sales Enablement is responsible for evolving the sales enablement function, ensuring a clear vision, aligning activity to the ELT business and strategic objectives, developing a high-performing team, and embedding a culture of enablement across the organization. The work of the Head of Sales Enablement will directly impact the ELT Division’s ability to deliver value to educators, institutions, and learners worldwide.

Key responsibilities in this role will include:

Define and implement a global sales enablement strategy aligned with ELT business and strategic objectives.

Develop and lead a global ELT Sales Enablement team, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Act as a strategic partner to Sales, Marketing and Product teams to ensure alignment and impact of sales enablement activity, tools, training and insights.

Design and deliver onboarding, training, and continuous learning programs for sales teams across regions.

Develop scalable resources, playbooks, and tools that support the sales cycle and improve productivity.

Drive global alignment and application of sales enablement processes and methodology, working with regional enablement leads to build capabilities and drive desired behaviours.

Govern the ELT instance of the Highspot Sales Enablement platform, driving platform usage and demonstrating impact on revenue

Ensure global distributors and third-party partners are equipped with the tools, training, and resources needed to drive revenue growth, leveraging platforms such as Highspot to deliver scalable enablement solutions.

Champion a data-driven approach to enablement, ensuring continuous alignment with business outcomes.

We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.

ABOUT YOU

To be successful in this role, you will ideally have/be:

Strategic level sales enablement experience.

Proven experience driving sales enablement programmes.

Able to use data to generate insights that inform future activity.

Ability to work collaboratively across a complex global business.

Excellent communicator to articulate sales enablement initiatives and influence key stakeholders.

Change leadership experience, leading a team through transformation.

Experience with Salesforce and Highspot or equivalent sales enablement platforms.

Knowledge of or experience working the ELT, an education or publishing industry (desirable).

BENEFITS

We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days’ holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.

We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.

This role comes with the added benefit of private medical insurance and a management bonus.

Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.

QUERIES

Please contact cynthia.yue@oup.com with any queries relating to this role.

We are committed to supporting diversity in our workforce, and ensuring an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and encourage applications from all.

Division:English Language Teaching

Department:ELT Marketing Management

Closing Date:16 July 2026

Salary:Dependent on skills and experience

Location:OUP UK - Oxford

Postcode:OX2 6DP

Full Time / Part Time:Full Time

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