Senior Manager/Director, Sales Strategy

San Francisco, CA, United States

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Do you enjoy a blend of strategy and operational execution? The Slack 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, finance, 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, sales 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 sales 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 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.)

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; organize quarterly business reviews.

Assist in troubleshooting of operational issues as they surface; propose changes to systems and processes to fix root causes.

Minimum Qualifications:

6+ years of professional experience, ideally in consulting or sales strategy/business operations roles

3+ Years of direct leadership experience

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

The exact leveling for this role will be determined after a careful and thorough evaluation throughout the interview process.

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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. For New York-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $172,200 to $236,900. For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $172,200 to $236,900. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.

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