Sales Operations Analyst

To support our growth and enable us to scale efficiently, we are seeking an exceptional Sales Ops Professional to drive all sales strategy, planning, reporting, and analysis efforts around sales pipeline management. In addition, this role will also work cross functionally to help support our Sales Development and Sales Engineering orgs.

This role will provide the analysis needed to evolve our understanding of our pipeline dynamics and conversion rates; from the very top of the sales funnel all the way through to bookings. S/he will work very closely with Marketing, Finance, and Sales Strategy to provide targets and recommendations that help align cross functional teams towards our company’s growth objectives while developing early warning indicators to track progress. 

Responsibilities

• Own all monthly sales pipeline related KPIs (e.g. website visits, contacts, leads, opportunities, conversion rates, won/loss analysis, etc).  

• Drive the pipeline budget and forecast, along with monthly actual to plan variance analysis to provide an understanding of the deltas and drivers.

• Support territory carving and GTM resource planning to optimize our coverage model across top markets and our incentive comp strategy across all GTM roles.

• Implement early warning systems to help proactively manage the growth of the business (i.e. customer churn, pipeline, conversions, pricing, etc.).

• Work cross functionally with Area Vice Presidents, Finance, and our Marketing teams to help identify areas of concern (e.g. lack of pipeline to support growth) and both short term and long term initiatives to address areas of concern.

• Drive strategic initiatives including capacity planning, pipeline management and country- specific go-to- market plans. Work cross functionally to develop growth plans for new geographies and market segments.

• Support our Sales Engineering and Sales Development teams to help evolve our resourcing model.

Desired background

• BS/BA required

• 2-4+ years work experience in Sales, Sales Operations, Strategy, FP&A, or similar field in SaaS organisations with strong exposure to go-to-market strategy.

• Demonstrated ability to structure complex problems, develop solutions, and craft recommendations and results into easily digestible messages, communications, and executive presentations.

• Excellent communication and engagement skills.

• Highly collaborative style and the ability to adjust on the fly to new demands with a sense of urgency.

• Ability to thrive in a fast paced start-up environment.

• Experience with the Salesforce.com platform

• Power user proficiency with the MS Office and Google suite.

• Fluency in a 2nd language highly desirable (French, Spanish, Italian)

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