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We are sharing a specialised part-time consulting opportunity for experienced Sales Managers with strong expertise in sales strategy, team leadership, quota and territory planning, sales operations, and performance analysis. This role focuses on reviewing sales-management content and workflows across realistic commercial scenarios. Selected professionals will assess sales strategies, quota plans, training materials, territory designs, customer-resolution approaches, and performance analyses for strategic soundness, managerial quality, analytical rigour, and practical feasibility. Key Responsibilities - Sales Strategy & Management - Evaluate sales strategies, management plans, and related work products for quality and accuracy - Assess whether proposed approaches appropriately support revenue and commercial objectives - Review sales priorities, team structures, and execution strategies - Identify weak assumptions, unrealistic recommendations, and gaps in sales planning - Apply professional judgement grounded in real-world sales management experience - Quota & Goal Setting - Review sales quotas, targets, and performance goals - Assess whether proposed targets are appropriately structured and internally consistent - Evaluate quota-allocation approaches across teams, territories, or customer segments - Identify unrealistic assumptions or poorly supported targets - Review alignment between quotas, resources, and broader sales objectives - Territory Planning - Evaluate sales-territory designs and allocation strategies - Assess territory structure based on market opportunity, workload, coverage, and commercial priorities - Identify imbalances or gaps in territory assignments - Review recommendations for reputed company market coverage and sales effectiveness - Evaluate whether territory decisions are practical for the intended sales organisation - Sales Team Leadership - Review scenarios involving sales-team direction, coaching, performance management, and resource allocation - Assess whether management approaches appropriately address team objectives and performance needs - Evaluate sales training and enablement materials - Identify gaps in communication, accountability, or team coordination - Review recommendations for reputed company sales-team effectiveness - Sales Performance Analysis - Evaluate sales reports, performance analyses, and supporting metrics - Review revenue, attainment, pipeline, territory, and team-performance information - Assess whether quantitative findings appropriately support stated conclusions - Identify analytical inconsistencies or unsupported recommendations - Evaluate performance trends and their implications for sales strategy - Customer & Escalation Management - Review sales-management scenarios involving customer complaints or commercial escalations - Assess prioritisation, communication, ownership, and proposed resolution approaches - Evaluate whether recommendations appropriately balance customer relationships and business objectives - Identify incomplete or impractical resolution strategies - Review escalation decisions for managerial and commercial soundness - Comparative Sales Evaluation - Compare alternative sales-management responses or approaches - Assess outputs based on strategic soundness, team-leadership rigour, and market-analysis quality - Identify meaningful differences between stronger and weaker solutions - Determine whether recommendations are commercially and operationally defensible - Provide clear reasoning supporting evaluation decisions - Structured Evaluation & Feedback - Review sales-management work products for accuracy and professional quality - Identify substantive strategic, analytical, managerial, and operational weaknesses - Distinguish material sales issues from minor presentation concerns - Provide concise, evidence-based written feedback - Apply evaluation standards consistently across assignments Ideal Profile - 4+ years of relevant professional experience in sales management or a closely related commercial leadership role - Experience as a Sales Manager, Regional Sales Manager, District Sales Manager, Sales Director, Sales Operations Manager, or similar professional - Demonstrated experience directing sales teams - Experience setting sales territories, quotas, and goals - Strong experience analysing sales performance to inform commercial strategy - Practical understanding of sales-team leadership, territory planning, performance management, and customer escalation - Strong written English communication skills - Ability to work independently and provide precise professional feedback Engagement Details - Part-time independent contractor engagement - Fully remote - Availability of 20+ hours per week - Immediate start - reputed company project duration of approximately 4–6 weeks - Compensation: $60–$100/hour for hourly project work - The reputed company assignment is task-based; contributors who successfull

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