Description

Do you enjoy a blend of strategy and operational execution? The Sales Strategy and Operations team partners directly with the sales leadership team as a trusted advisor, focused on strategic planning, sales optimization and business operational support. You will collaborate with many cross-functional teams such as finance, employee success, marketing, operations, and others. This is a high-impact role, with constantly evolving priorities and demands. You will think strategically, arrive at a focused execution plan, and lead the plan to fruition. Example of projects can range from the very strategic to the very operational and focus on some of the many areas, such as Go-To-Market planning, Salesforce product playbook, tooling, data quality, business planning, market segmentation, sales pipeline, and business performance review.

Successful candidates will be able to use data to drive insights, provide strategic recommendations, build scalable assets, and guide the charge on execution and organizational change. You will have the opportunity to combine intuition for business, innovative inquiry, insights from sales leaders, and curiosity to accomplish meaningful work to uncover trends and identify insights that deliver impact across the organization.

Sample projects and results range from evaluating worldwide market opportunities, building a scalable reporting infrastructure, supporting the creation of the product growth strategy, market segmentation, sales pipeline and key performance metric reviews.

Impact:

• Define key performance metrics and targets, build reports and dashboards to derive insights into the health of the business, identify areas of weakness, and present improvement recommendations to sales leadership.
• Perform ad-hoc analyses across multiple data sets and tools (examples of analyses include customer segmentation, sales participation, propensity to buy, white space, etc.).
• Create executive-level presentations for both local and global leadership reviews; organize quarterly business reviews.
• Assist in troubleshooting of operational issues as they surface; propose changes to systems and processes to fix root causes.
• Ability to handle ambiguity and problem solve using a structured, logical approach.
• Strong executive presence. Stakeholder and cross functional management experience critical.
• Data Infrastructure Requirements Gathering & Analysis - determine the needs or conditions to meet the new or altered product or project, taking account of the possibly conflicting requirements of the various stakeholders, analyzing, documenting, validating, and managing software or system requirements.
• Knowledge Management - Ability to develop and facilitate practices that enable employees to create, use or share information efficiently and effectively.
• Results Orientation - Project confidence while expressing own thoughts and ideas with clarity, sincerity, and conviction. Communicate with passion and honesty. Shares a compelling business vision that engages and influences others.
• Statistics and Modeling Techniques - use various modeling techniques, such as process modeling, data modeling and use case diagrams to visually represent business requirements and system functionalities.
• Data Literacy & Attention to Detail - ability to read, understand, create, and communicate data as information, while doing so with attention to detail. Identifies, gathers, formulates, calculates, analyzes, and derives diverse sets of data. Communicates findings through a targeted information sharing process.
• Critical Thinking & Problem Solving - ability to objectively and systematically analyze information, ideas or situations to form well reasoned judgements or decisions. It involves using logical reasoning, evidence based analysis, and sound judgement to evaluate complex problems, patterns, and meaningful conclusions.

Required Skills:

• 2-3+ years of professional experience, in a highly analytical role or strategy department
• Advanced Excel skills; experience with SQL and Tableau
• Degree or equivalent relevant experience required. Experience will be evaluated based on the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)

Preferred Skills:

• Outstanding problem solving skills: consistent track record to ask questions, structure sophisticated problems, develop solutions and recommendations
• Strong communication skills to translate complex info into easily digestible insights and executive presentations
• Strong presentation skills, especially related to building compelling PowerPoint/Google Slides presentations
• Resilient Self-starter and high degree of motivation to go above and beyond the task at hand
• Highly collaborative style with strong networking skills across business functions
• Flexibility and ability to adjust on the fly to new demands; sense of urgency

For roles in San Francisco and Los Angeles: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.