Training Manager – Sales Industrial
Location: Selangor, Malaysia
Regional Coverage: Southeast Asia
Travel: Approximately 30% across Southeast Asia
About the Role
We are looking for a high-impact Training Manager to strengthen sales capability across Southeast Asia.
This is a hands-on regional Learning & Development role for someone who enjoys being close to the business, working with sales teams, and turning learning into practical on-the-job performance.
You will design, facilitate and continuously improve learning programmes across diverse markets, while partnering with regional and local stakeholders to identify capability gaps, localise content and measure training effectiveness.
The successful candidate will be comfortable facilitating sessions, engaging field teams and navigating different cultures, markets and commercial environments across Southeast Asia.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead training needs analysis across Southeast Asia and identify key sales capability gaps.
- Design, develop and facilitate practical learning programmes for sales and customer-facing teams.
- Localise regional training content to ensure relevance across different SEA markets and customer environments.
- Deliver engaging workshops, training sessions and capability-building initiatives, both virtually and in person.
- Partner with Sales Leaders and key stakeholders to align learning initiatives with commercial priorities.
- Support sales onboarding, coaching and continuous development programmes.
- Measure training effectiveness and use feedback and performance data to continuously improve learning solutions.
- Promote consistent sales processes, coaching practices and capability standards across the region while allowing for local market flexibility.
- Work closely with regional and country stakeholders to support evolving business priorities and organisational change.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Education, Human Resources, Business or a related discipline.
- Proven experience in Learning & Development, sales training, facilitation or capability development.
- Strong understanding of sales processes; customer-facing or commercial experience is an advantage.
- Excellent facilitation, presentation and communication skills.
- Strong stakeholder management and ability to work effectively across different countries and cultures.
- Experience working across Southeast Asia or similarly diverse regional markets is highly preferred.
- Ability to balance regional consistency with local market needs.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.
- Certification in facilitation, instructional design or adult learning is an advantage.
- Willingness to travel approximately 30% across Southeast Asia.
Key Competencies
- Learning & Capability Development
- Sales Training & Facilitation
- Stakeholder Collaboration
- Communication Effectiveness
- Customer Focus
- Cultural Adaptability
- Innovation & Continuous Improvement