Sales Enablement Specialist

John Crane, a business of Smiths Group, is a global leader in mission-critical flow control solutions for energy and process industries that enable efficient and sustainable operations. Our products include mechanical seals and systems, couplings, bearings, filtration systems, and predictive digital monitoring technologies.

We have a global network of more than 200 sites in over 50 countries and employ more than 6,000 people worldwide. We partner with our customers to help them keep their operations safe, reduce downtime, improve efficiency, and meet the latest environmental standards.

John Crane is part of Smiths Group. For over 170 years, Smiths has been pioneering progress by engineering for a better future. We serve millions of people every year, helping to create a safer, more efficient, productive, and better-connected world across four global markets: energy, security & defence, space & aerospace, and general industrial. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Smiths employs approximately 16,000 colleagues in over 50 countries.

Job Description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Sales Enablement Specialist to join the Marketing team reporting to the Channel Marketing Manager. As the Sales Enablement Specialist you will be responsible for ensuring the sales teams are equipped with the tools, content and training required to be successful in customer-facing communications. The role will focus on developing and maintaining clear & professional sales enablement materials, collaborating with internal teams and managing a centralised SharePoint hub.

This role is based from either our headquarters within Slough or site within Manchester working Monday to Friday normal office hours. (hybrid working)

John Crane is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to crafting an inclusive environment for all employees.

Duties & Responsibilities (not limited to)

• Partner with Sales, Marketing, Product, and Comms teams to identify content needs across the sales cycle and key accounts.
• Create and maintain high-quality sales enablement content (e.g., decks, one-pagers, objection handlers, battlecards, toolkits) aligned with go-to-market strategies.
• Manage the centralized Sales Enablement hub (SharePoint), ensuring content is accurate, accessible, and version-controlled.
• Coordinate content development for product launches, campaigns, onboarding, and NPDs across global regions, ensuring localization and alignment with brand standards.
• Monitor content usage and gather feedback to drive continuous improvement and optimise relevance and accessibility.
• Support sales onboarding and training with relevant playbooks and tools.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to align enablement efforts with strategic priorities, improve processes, and eliminate redundancies.

Qualifications

• Experience within a similar role, ideally from an engineering or manufacturing background
• Strong communications skills
• Great time management
• Excellent stakeholder management

Additional information

With colleagues stretching across the globe, we are proud of our diversity. To foster inclusivity, we run employee resource groups (ERGs) to provide a safe space for employees to connect and support each other. Our cross-business ERGs include Veterans, Pride Network, Black Employee Network, Women@Work Network, and Neurodiversity.

Across our company, we recognize excellence, culminating in the Smiths Excellence Awards, our annual celebration of the most extraordinary activities, people, and projects that best showcase our strengths and help drive our business forward. We announce these on our annual Smiths Day, a global celebration of Smiths around our network.

We believe that different perspectives and backgrounds are what make a company flourish. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, economic status, disability, age, or any other legally protected characteristics. We are proud to be an inclusive company with values grounded in equality and ethics, where we celebrate, support, and embrace diversity.

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