Manager of Sales Training & Enablement

Overview

Ashton Woods is more than just a home builder. From the sale of our first home in 1989 to recently being named Builder of the Year by Builder Magazine, our focus has always been on blazing new trails and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in homebuilding. Ashton Woods, the #1 private home builder in the United States, markets its homes through its two award-winning brands, Ashton Woods and Starlight Homes.

The Ashton Woods brand is known for designing thoughtfully curated, inspired homes for people who love design. The Starlight Homes brand builds homes specifically for the first‑time homebuyer, offering affordable homes with well‑executed designs and quality finishes for buyers looking to make the dream of home ownership a reality. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia;
Ashton Woods sells new homes in Atlanta, Austin, Charleston, Dallas, Houston, Nashville, Orlando, Phoenix, Raleigh, San Antonio, and Tampa.

The Manager of Sales Training & Enablement is an individual contributor role and is field‑based performance partner responsible for developing salespeople, with a significant focus from onboarding through their first 90 days; and beyond. Additionally, this position will assist in training and developing the sales organization. This role owns division relationships, new hire development, post‑sales training performance support; and actively contributes to the design and delivery of national training programs.

This is not a classroom or administrative role; rather it is high‑accountability, highly visible field and development position. Field travel is required to divisions a minimum of 50% of working days each month. This is a highly structured position with responsibilities that contain standardized processes and procedures that require excellent organizational and documentation skills.

• Trainers are assigned a specific regional portfolio of divisions. Ownership of those divisions is the primary organizational responsibility of this role. Trainers are not external training vendors to their divisions — they are embedded performance partners.
• Trainers are responsible for new hire training in their assigned region from orientation through 90 days post‑graduation.
• Attend orientation call and identify all new hires assigned to your region before the call ends.
• Conduct an individual introduction one-on-one with each new hire after orientation.
• Conduct weekly one-on-one check‑ins with each new hire throughout the training program.
• Establish and maintain communication with each new hire’s direct leader and assigned mentor throughout the training period.
• Conduct post‑sales training touchpoints (i.e., at 30, 60, 90 days) for every new hire in region and log discussion content in the post‑training tracker.
• Maintain a Teams communication channel for each cohort to champion wins, provide encouragement, and sustain the training culture post‑graduation.
• Facilitate webinars, virtual sessions, and live training events as scheduled.
• Maintain mastery of all training content they are responsible for delivering as well as the content in totality.
• Conduct at least three call listening sessions per division per month.
• Document observations from every call listening session using the call evaluation form. File in Egnyte.
• Communicate findings back to the relevant division leader and salesperson within five business days of the listening session.
• Call listening blocks must appear on Outlook calendar with a link to folder showing the completed evaluation and communication.
• All video uploads submitted by new hires in AWU must be reviewed by the assigned trainer.
• Video review blocks must appear on Outlook calendar with linked folder of documentation.
• Own at least one module or skill track in the national training program and is responsible for its accuracy, relevance, and ongoing updates.
• Submit at least two to three real‑world field scenarios from your divisions for use in training content.
• Trainers must be proficient in pulling and reading division performance reports in Salesforce including new hire ramp data, pipeline activity, AI activity, goalpost dashboard, quota attainment, and…