Sales Enablement Lead
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 20, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 19, 2026.
The Role
OakNorth's lending business is scaling across the UK and US, and we need a Sales Enablement Lead to join our growing Commercial Strategy team.
Working within Debt Finance, you will own the sales enablement engine - understanding what best in class looks like across our end to end deal processes and translating this into playbooks, materials and training to support every Debt Finance Director in reaching their full potential.
This is a hands-on, build-from-scratch mandate for someone who can earn credibility with senior dealmakers and translate how they operate into practical tools.
What you’ll do
- Work hand in hand with our Debt Finance Directors to understand what good looks like, and any gaps in our existing deal processes
- Codify “what good looks like” and build our sales enablement materials, optimising by stakeholder, segment and product
- Develop sales playbooks on how we position OakNorth to different stakeholder groups
- Build battlecards and objection-handling guides and understand blockers at different deal stages and how to address these
- Partner with marketing to develop sharp, consistent sales materials
- Own onboarding for new DFDs and get new joiners productive faster
- Identify coaching gaps and support delivery alongside our top originators
The Profile
We care more about how you think than where you've worked. You may come from commercial lending, debt advisory, banking, consulting or sales enablement - what matters is credibility with dealmakers and a talent for turning tacit expertise into usable tools.
You will bring:
- 5-8+ years' experience, with enough commercial and credit fluency to follow a complex lending deal and hold your own with senior originators
- Sharp synthesis and writing - the ability to watch how someone sells and distil it into something others can use
- Strong systems thinking and the instinct to build structure where none exists
- Low ego and high curiosity - comfortable learning from others before telling them how it's done
- A bias for action and comfort building without a playbook
Benefits & Perks
25 days holiday
Personalised benefits - opt-in to what matters to you
Subsidised Private Medical Insurance with Bupa
Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
Wellbeing and social events
In-house Barista Bar - London office
Volunteering time off - support causes that matter to you
Salary sacrifice schemes - cycle to work, nursery, gym, electric car scheme