About the Role
This role plays an integral part in shaping and executing go-to-market strategies with Sales leaders. You will partner with senior Sales leadership and the broader Sales team to drive the overall productivity and effectiveness of the mid-market segment. Responsibilities include go-to-market design, resource planning, quota setting and management, sales process optimization, and business analytics. You will also partner with key cross-functional stakeholders to streamline and optimize internal processes and deliverables.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Sales leadership and cross-functional stakeholders in developing go-to market strategy, resource plan and key performance metrics.
- Create and manage operational processes such as territory planning and target setting.
- Work cross-functionally to investigate and conduct analysis on system and operational issues.
- Develop and execute initiatives designed to optimize sales team efficiency and productivity.
- Drive rhythm of business (forecasting, pipeline council, monthly / quarterly business reviews) with strong operational rigor.
- Provide insights on key performance metrics and priorities, identify key roadblocks to progress, and work efficiently to remove them.
- Provide business analytic strength to help drive initiatives critical to ongoing growth and provide key insights for business leadership to support strategic decision-making.
- Drive critical projects and initiatives and drive alignment with cross-functional teams across the organization by developing detailed project plans with activity based milestones.
- Oversee implementation of enabling systems and tools, working closely with internal systems teams.
Requirements
- 7+ years of sales strategy and operations experience in a high-tech growth environment, or operational experience in investment banking, management consulting, private equity, venture capital, or business insights / analytics roles.
- Knowledge of sales data such as customer accounts, opportunities and revenue.
- Strong business acumen and distinctive problem solving and analysis skills.
- Ability to solve complex and diverse business problems (commercial, operational, organizational).
- Exceptional analytical skills and a structured approach to solving unique business problems.
- Advanced SQL and Excel skills to include experience financial modelling.
- Experience working with large data sets, especially in analyzing large imperfect data sets to solve problems and creating scalable reports and dashboards or ad-hoc analysis.
- Stakeholder management experience - with strong communication and influencing skills.
- Self-starter and comfortable dealing with ambiguity.
- Communicate clearly, proactively, and concisely.
- Works well under pressure, with a high degree of adaptability and flexibility in a fast-paced and frequently changing environment.
- An enthusiastic "roll up your sleeves" mentality.
- Works well under pressure, with a high degree of adaptability and flexibility in a fast paced, ambiguous and rapidly changing environment.
Skills
- SQL
- Excel
- Financial modelling
- BI visualization tools (e.g. Tableau)
- Salesforce.com
Experience Level
- 7+ years of sales strategy and operations experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree in a related field (e.g. Finance, Business, Engineering, Mathematics)
- MBA or higher degree in an analytical field
About the Company
- Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities.
- Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead.
- That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.
