Director of Sales Operations & Performance- Automotive

We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.

As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.

Job Purpose: ln collaboration with the Global Account Managers (GAM) and the Business Units, the Director Salesops and Performance (DSP) coordinates the Sales activity for dedicated market sector(s) and set of Global Customers in each geography to achieve annual sales ambitions in top line growth, market share and profitability

Main Duties & Responsibilities

■ Market Strategy Support

Support analysis of Alten and its competitors’ performance in designated market sectors

Propose insights based on benchmarks, historical data and understanding of market trends

Identify and escalate risks that would impact Alten business

Animate a global community to share market trends and provide actionable take aways

Provide on demand analysis of market sub-segment or Global customers

Periodically assess list of selected Global customers

■ Commercial Support

Act as Business Partner to GAM for selected accounts

Interact with customers at senior level to support commercial activity, identify and address risk/opportunities

Coach Managers to animate internal/external commercial rituals for Global Accounts

■ Sales Performance Management

Monitor sales momentum and pipeline health

Generate data-driven insights from CRM analytics to guide sales strategies

Create dashboards and reports to provide visibility into key sales performance metrics

Drive win/loss analysis and recommendations for continuous improvement of sales performance

■ RFI/RFQ Management

Orchestrate RFI answer across geographies and Alten organizations in coordination with Bid team

Support large RFQ for selected accounts

Sales Process and tools

Contribute to streamline and improve efficiency of the end-to-end sales process and tools

Ensure central repository of documents and data to support sales activity

■ Lead Sales Operations Team

Recruit, mentor of develop Sales Operations Managers and Analysts

Set goals for the team and manage workload

Guarantee high service level

Qualifications:

8+ yrs of experience in engineering consulting services supporting strategy/operations in automotive/trucking

Bachelor's degree required, Master's degree preferred

Expertise of automotive/trucking industries

Experience with tracking sales metrics on a CRM

Experience working with global teams

Experience driving and supporting day to day activities of sales personelle

Experience supporting Bid, RFI and RFQ activities

Salary Range: 100,000-150,000 + Bonus

The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or pregnancy.

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