Manager Sales Strategy

Description

Description

The Sales Strategy team partners directly with the leadership team as a trusted advisor, focused on strategic planning, optimisation and business operational support. You will collaborate with many cross-functional teams such as Sales, 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, territory alignment, data quality, business planning, market segmentation, pipeline, and business performance review.

We’re looking for highly passionate candidates who have relentless curiosity, a startup mentality, attention to detail, willingness to manage multiple priorities, and ability to deal with ambiguity effectively.]

Impact

• Orchestrate the design and implementation of all aspects of the Go-To-Market plan under the annual strategy planning cycle. This includes account segmentation, resource allocation, territory assignment, compensation, quota setting, etc.
• 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 leadership.
• Perform ad-hoc analyses across multiple data sets and tools (examples of analyses include customer segmentation, participation, propensity to buy, white space, etc.)
• Drive forecast management excellence to ensure sustained, predictable growth across all business units, coordinate weekly forecast calls to track status of sales pursuits.
• Create executive-level presentations for both local and global leadership reviews; organise quarterly business reviews.
• Assist in troubleshooting of operational issues as they surface; propose changes to systems and processes to fix root causes.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• 5-7+ years of professional experience, ideally in consulting or sales strategy/business operations roles
• Experience with quantitative analysis and financial modeling
• 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 Qualifications

• Ability to translate complex information into easily consumable insights
• Self-starter and high degree of motivation to go above and beyond the task at hand
• Excellent communications and presentation skills
• Experience with R, Python, SQL, Tableau (or similar analytical packages) a plus
  
  

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.

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