Senior Manager, Competitive Intelligence and Strategy

Location:New York, NY

Department:Sales

The Role

As a Revenue Enablement Senior Manager focused on competitive intelligence, you will own the strategic direction and operating rhythm for competitive enablement across Navan’s GTM organization. You will synthesize a broad range of market, buyer, product, and field signals into an actionable competitive strategy—deciding where to focus, what to solve first, and how to mobilize the organization around the opportunities that matter most.

You will partner closely with Sales, Product Marketing, Product, Revenue Operations, and Enablement leaders to build shared context and durable alignment. Your work will make complex competitive dynamics clear and useful: translating them into practical messaging, learning experiences, and tools that sales teams can absorb quickly and apply consistently in live customer conversations.

What You’ll Do

  • Set competitive strategy and direction: Develop and evolve Navan’s competitive enablement strategy, connecting company priorities, market shifts, buyer needs, product strategy, and field realities into a clear, scalable point of view.
  • Lead the competitive intelligence system: Build a rigorous, continuous intelligence motion that combines field insight, win/loss themes, customer feedback, market research, product signals, and competitor activity to identify patterns, risks, and opportunities ahead of the market.
  • Prioritize for impact: Assess competing requests and signals, make thoughtful tradeoffs, and focus cross-functional effort on the highest-value initiatives, pivotal deals, emerging threats, and strategic growth opportunities.
  • Influence cross-functional stakeholders: Align senior leaders and working teams across GTM, Product Marketing, Product, and Enablement around shared priorities, decisions, and execution plans—balancing differing perspectives while maintaining forward momentum.
  • Translate insight into field-ready enablement: Convert nuanced competitive and market information into clear, compelling battlecards, talk tracks, objection-handling guidance, deal plays, manager coaching resources, and learning content that sellers can confidently put into practice.
  • Design high-adoption learning experiences: Create and deliver training that makes complex concepts easy to understand, remember, and use—tailoring content and facilitation for sellers, managers, and leadership audiences.
  • Enable critical customer moments: Partner with deal teams and leaders to provide strategic perspective, messaging, and practical guidance when competitive dynamics are especially consequential, while feeding lessons learned back into the broader program.
  • Measure and evolve the program: Define success measures, monitor adoption and effectiveness, and use qualitative and quantitative feedback to improve content, training, positioning, and program focus over time.

What We’re Looking For

  • 7–10 years of experience in competitive intelligence, revenue enablement, product marketing, sales, strategy, or a related GTM role.
  • Demonstrated experience defining strategy and then translating it into programs, training, and tools that change seller behavior and improve field readiness.
  • A strong understanding of B2B competitive dynamics, positioning, buyer decision-making, and the ways product, market, and sales motions intersect.
  • Experience partnering with senior stakeholders and managing multiple, sometimes competing priorities across cross-functional teams.
  • Exceptional synthesis, writing, and facilitation skills, with a track record of making complex subjects understandable and actionable for varied audiences.
  • Sound judgment, curiosity, and a bias toward action—able to bring structure and clarity when priorities are evolving or information is incomplete.
  • Experience in a high-growth, high-change environment is strongly preferred.
  • Strategic judgment: Sees the full competitive landscape, recognizes meaningful patterns amid incomplete information, and connects individual signals to longer-term business implications.
  • Executive and stakeholder influence: Builds credibility with senior audiences, frames decisions clearly, and brings diverse partners to alignment around a common path forward.
  • Clarity from complexity: Distills sophisticated market, product, and competitive information into concise narratives, practical frameworks, and persuasive field guidance.
  • Program leadership: Creates structure across multiple workstreams, stakeholders, and deadlines; anticipates dependencies; and keeps important work moving with sound prioritization.
  • Sales enablement craft: Knows how to turn strategy into usable sales behavior through well-designed messaging, content, reinforcement, manager coaching, and training.
  • Competitive intelligence expertise: Understands how to gather, validate, synthesize, and apply intelligence in a B2B GTM environment—while maintaining a balanced view of the market and buyer.
  • Tool proficiency: Comfortable using Google Workspace, LMS tools, enablement platforms such as Seismic, and systems that support research, content management, and program measurement.
The posted pay range represents the anticipated low and high end of the compensation for this position and is subject to change based on business need. To determine a successful candidate’s starting pay, we carefully consider a variety of factors, including primary work location, an evaluation of the candidate’s skills and experience, market demands, and internal parity.

For roles with on-target-earnings (OTE), the pay range includes both base salary and target incentive compensation. Target incentive compensation for some roles may include a ramping draw period. Compensation is higher for those who exceed targets. Candidates may receive more information from the recruiter.
Pay Range
$123,750$215,000 USD

 

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About Navan

Navan (Nasdaq: NAVN) is the global AI-powered business travel and expense platform that makes travel easy for frequent travelers. From finding flights and hotels, to automating expense reconciliation, with 24/7 support along the way, Navan delivers an intuitive experience travelers love and finance teams rely on. See how Navan customers benefit and learn more at navan.com.

Culture of Excellence

Our team is our competitive edge — a high-performance group of smart, driven people committed to winning together. This dedication to excellence is why we’ve been recognized as a Best Place to Work by Built In (2023–2026), a G2 Best Global Software Company (2025–2026), Forbes Cloud 100 (2022–2025), and CNBC Disruptor 50 (2022–2025). At Navan, we provide an environment where top talent excels, offering the autonomy and fast-paced trajectory needed to build a defining career and do the best work of your life.

Our Benefits

Navan offers a comprehensive benefits program designed to support your well-being, financial security, and life outside of work. Our benefits, thoughtfully tailored by country to meet local needs, include healthcare coverage, insurance offerings, and wellness resources for you and your family.

We support long-term financial growth through retirement savings programs and opportunities to participate in our equity plans, so you can share in Navan’s success. To promote balance, we offer flexible time off, country-specific holidays, and paid parental leave for all new parents. Additional benefits include connectivity and commuting support*, mental health resources, and exclusive travel-related perks. Wherever you’re based, our benefits evolve with you.

Workplace Policy

Navan believes in the value of in-person connections, whether that’s sitting down to have lunch with one another, taking a walking 1:1, or collaborating in a room together. The connections forged through face-to-face interactions improve company culture and drive business results. Navan invests in global office spaces — in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, among others — that feel welcoming. In-office perks such as company-provided lunches and happy hours create a strong team environment to help you do your best work. Our employees work from the office four days a week. Please expect this policy for all roles that are tied to an office.

Equal Opportunity

Navan is an equal opportunity employer. We make all employment decisions based solely on merit. We provide equal employment opportunity to all applicants and employees without discrimination on the bases of race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We prohibit any such discrimination or harassment. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring.

Accommodations

Navan complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as amended by the ADA Amendments Act, and all applicable state or local law. Navan will reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with a disability in connection with applications for employment as required by law.

If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, you are welcome to email us at talent-accommodations@navan.com.

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Job Search Best Practices

We have been made aware of recruitment scams involving fraudulent attempts to lure job seekers into sending money or personal information in return for fake job offers or coerce them into purchasing equipment by electronic funds transfer (Zelle, Venmo, etc.) Legitimate Navan recruiters will never ask for money in any recruitment or onboarding activities. All available job openings at Navan will be posted on Navan’s website and all Navan recruiters will be reachable through an email address ending in “@navan.com” or “@navan.tech” or "@talent.navan.com".

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