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What is The Role:

To support our growth and enable us to scale efficiently, we are seeking an outstanding entry level Sales Ops Professional to drive all sales strategy, planning, reporting, and analysis efforts for our US Public Sector Civilian and SLED Sales Areas. In addition, this role will also work cross functionally to help support our Sales Development, Sales Engineering and overlay sales organizations.

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. They 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.

What You Will Be Doing:

Responsible for providing strategic, operational, and tactical support to multiple sales leaders across the Public Sector Geo
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 them
Drive critical 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 overlay sales teams to continuously evolve our resourcing model

What You Bring:

4 years work experience in Sales, Sales Operations, Strategy, FP&A, Management Consulting, or similar field in SaaS organizations with strong exposure to go-to-market strategy
Proven ability to structure complex problems, develop solutions, and craft recommendations and results into easily digestible messages, communications, and executive presentations
Experience forecasting bookings, rep attainment, and generally building complex and dynamic models for scenario planning
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 suite (especially MS Excel and MS Powerpoint)
Familiarity with reporting and business intelligence tools (especially Tableau)

Bonus Points:

Experience supporting Public Sector leaders and market&

Sales Operations Analyst - Public Sector