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LightspeedCommerce Platform SaaS

Field Sales Enablement Manager

French and English Speaking

Location

Paris, France

Work type

Field

Employment

Full Time

Experience

5-8 years

Compensation

Compensation not disclosed

Posted

7h ago

Summary and responsibilities

Role overview

Summary

This role involves designing, delivering, and optimizing enablement programs for Field Sales Teams across the region. The manager will partner with sales leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to equip Account Executives with the necessary skills, content, and knowledge to drive revenue growth and effective execution in their territories. Extensive travel is required to observe customer interactions, conduct ride-alongs, and provide feedback.

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Are you actively looking for a new opportunity? Or just checking the market? Well… you might just be in the right place!

We’re looking for a Field Sales Enablement Manager to join our Sales Enablement team in Paris. As Field Sales Enablement Manager, you'll be responsible for designing, delivering, and optimising enablement programs that elevate the performance, productivity, and consistency of the Field Sales Teams across the region. This role partners with Field Sales Leadership & Operations, cross‑functional stakeholders, and subject matter experts to ensure that the Field Account Executives are equipped with the skills, content and knowledge needed to drive revenue growth and execute effectively in their territories.

This role requires extensive travel within the region [50-75%] , spending meaningful time in the field to observe real customer interactions, conduct ride‑alongs, and provide timely, actionable feedback

What you’ll be doing:

  • Enablement Strategy & Program Development: Collaborate with the Enablement Team Manager to build and execute comprehensive enablement strategies focused on prospecting, territory management, solution selling, and deal closure.

  • Training Design & Delivery: Create and facilitate onboarding programs tailored to the needs of Field Sales Account Executives, and skill‑development workshops focused on converting knowledge into skills through flipped classroom, roleplays, simulations, and field‑based learning such as ride‑alongs and in‑territory coaching sessions.

  • Content & Tools Creation: Develop high‑impact enablement assets—including playbooks, territory planning frameworks, pitch decks, objection‑handling guides, demo scripts, and customer conversation frameworks—to support consistent and effective selling.

  • Cross‑Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product, Marketing, Operations, and regional Sales Leadership to ensure alignment in messaging, product positioning, and go‑to‑market strategies across territories and segments.

  • Coaching & Performance Support: Provide targeted coaching to Field Sales Account Executives to strengthen prospecting, presentation, negotiation, and pipeline management capabilities. Conduct regular ride‑alongs and shadowing sessions, offering structured feedback immediately after customer meetings to reinforce best practices and drive behavioral change.

  • Certification & Competency Frameworks: Build and maintain certification programs and competency models to ensure Field Sales teams meet performance standards and adhere to sales methodologies.

What you need to bring:

  • Proven experience in delivering enablement programs for Field Sales, Outside Sales Teams, Outbound Sales Motions, preferably in global SaaS companies;

  • Experience in evaluating the effectiveness of enablement programs and their impact on business critical metrics such as pipeline growth, win rates, quota attainment, and revenue generation;

  • Ability to work with data to extract useful, actionable insights;

  • Proven track record of creating field sales enablement content and tools that drive behavioral change and performance improvement.

  • Excellent communication skills in both, English and French

What’s in it for you:

Come Live the Lightspeed Experience….

  • Genuine career opportunities in a company that’s creating new jobs every day

  • Work in a team large enough for growth but lean enough to make a real impact

  • Exposure to modern and proven technology

  • Ability to work and grow in a truly flexible environment

  • Opportunity to learn, expand your skill set, forge wonderful relationships and make your mark within the diverse and inclusive Lightspeed culture, a true Canadian tech success story

… and enjoy a range of benefits that’ll keep you happy, healthy and (not) hungry:

  • Lightspeed equity scheme (we are all owners)

  • Health & Wellness Credit- expense up to 400 EUR per year towards your gym membership, yoga classes, a new bike or whatever else you do for your health

  • Mental Health Support through the Modern Health App- whether it is meditation, coaching or counseling you need - each employee gets access to this platform

  • People Experience - Our PX benefit allows you to work from pretty much anywhere in the world for 60 days a year

  • LinkedIn Learning: At Lightspeed we believe in having a growth mindset, we provide free access to LinkedIn learning along with your career GPS to help you learn & grow

  • Time off to volunteer and give back to your community

  • Transit benefit if you travel by public transport to the office

  • Lunch reimbursement on the days you work from our Paris office

  • Healthy snacks and after-work activities are organised by the company

  • Health insurance with attractive guarantee plans

To all recruitment agencies: Lightspeed does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. If we have not directly engaged your company in writing to supply candidates for a specific vacancy, Lightspeed will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Lightspeed is a proud equal opportunity employer and we are committed to creating an inclusive and barrier-free workplace. Lightspeed welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Where to from here?

Obviously, this has to be mutually beneficial: we want you to step into a role you love, and we want to offer you a place you’re proud to come to every day. For a glimpse into our world check out our career page here.

Lightspeed is building communities through commerce, and we need people from all backgrounds and lived experiences to do that. We were founded in 2005, in Montreal’s gay village and our original members were all part of the LGBTQ+ community. The ethos of our business has been about inclusion from the very beginning, and we strive to provide a workplace where everyone belongs.

Who we are:

Powering the businesses that are the backbone of the global economy, Lightspeed's one-stop commerce platform helps merchants innovate to simplify, scale, and provide exceptional customer experiences. Our cloud commerce solution transforms and unifies online and physical operations, multichannel sales, expansion to new locations, global payments, financial solutions, and connection to supplier networks.

Founded in Montréal, Canada in 2005, Lightspeed is dual-listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: LSPD) and Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: LSPD). With teams across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, the company serves retail, hospitality, and golf businesses in over 100 countries.

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Candidate fit

Skills and qualifications

Additional skills

Enablement program delivery • 1+ yrs
Sales Enablement • 1+ yrs
Field Sales • 1+ yrs
Outside Sales • 1+ yrs
Outbound Sales Motions • 1+ yrs
SaaS • 1+ yrs
Program evaluation • 1+ yrs
Data analysis • 1+ yrs
Content creation • 1+ yrs
Tool development • 1+ yrs
Behavioral change • 1+ yrs
Performance improvement • 1+ yrs
Prospecting • 1+ yrs
Territory management • 1+ yrs
Solution selling • 1+ yrs
Deal closure • 1+ yrs
Onboarding program design • 1+ yrs
Training facilitation • 1+ yrs
Skill-development workshops • 1+ yrs
Flipped classroom • 1+ yrs
Roleplays • 1+ yrs
Simulations • 1+ yrs
Ride-alongs • 1+ yrs
In-territory coaching • 1+ yrs
Playbooks • 1+ yrs
Territory planning frameworks • 1+ yrs
Pitch decks • 1+ yrs
Objection-handling guides • 1+ yrs
Demo scripts • 1+ yrs
Customer conversation frameworks • 1+ yrs
Cross-functional collaboration • 1+ yrs
Product positioning • 1+ yrs
Go-to-market strategies • 1+ yrs
Coaching • 1+ yrs
Presentation skills • 1+ yrs
Negotiation • 1+ yrs
Pipeline management • 1+ yrs
Feedback • 1+ yrs
Certification programs • 1+ yrs
Competency models • 1+ yrs
Sales methodologies • 1+ yrs
Pipeline growth • 1+ yrs
Win rates • 1+ yrs
Quota attainment • 1+ yrs
Revenue generation • 1+ yrs

Experience

5-8 years

How this role is positioned

Role classification

Job domains

Sales & Business Dev

Industries

Retail

Employment

Full Time

Contract duration

Permanent

Hiring type

Direct

Global hiring

Location specific

Offer details

Compensation and benefits

Compensation

Compensation not disclosed

VisibilityShared on listing
CurrencyUSD
PeriodYearly

Benefits and perks

Mental Health Support
Health Insurance

Location, schedule, and role shape

Work setup

Work conditions

Primary locationParis, France
Work typeField
Global hiringNo

Bandwidth profile

peopleHigh9/10
physicalMedium7/10
cognitiveHigh8/10
executionHigh8/10
creativityMedium7/10
uncertaintyMedium6/10
communicationHigh9/10

Context on the employer

Company snapshot

Company

Lightspeed

Team size

Growing team

Location

Paris, France

Powering the businesses that are the backbone of the global economy, Lightspeed's one-stop commerce platform helps merchants innovate to simplify, scale, and provide exceptional customer experiences. Our cloud commerce solution transforms and unifies online and physical operations, multichannel sales, expansion to new locations, global payments, financial solutions, and connection to supplier networks. Founded in Montréal, Canada in 2005, Lightspeed is dual-listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: LSPD) and Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: LSPD). With teams across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, the company serves retail, hospitality, and golf businesses in over 100 countries.

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Field Sales Enablement Manager

Paris, FranceFull Time