Sr. Sales Operations Manager, EMEA Enterprise Support Strategy & Operations (ESSO)

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Enterprise Support Strategy & Operations (ESSO) team is looking for a smart enthusiastic and creative thought leader with a strong background in sales operations and supporting field organizations.

This individual contributor leader will own the day-to-day operations for the EMEA Premium Support Business Development (PSBD) business and partner with the Field BD leadership to drive revenue growth and increase adoption of AWS Support Services in line with GTM strategy.

We are looking for a senior sales operations lead who can leverage their depth of experience to partner with leaders and field teams to drive execution of the go-to-market strategy. This role will bring visibility insights and rigor to pipeline management forecasting sales planning and day-to-day management of business performance. This role will hold a variety of responsibilities including but not limited to partnering with BD leadership to drive revenue growth and ensuring overachievement of plan owning the rhythm of business and reporting cadence delivering proactive business insights and recommendations to owning and executing key field BD operations activities and mechanisms within the geographies (ie. Territory planning) driving strategic planning activities within the geographies leading initiatives focused on improving BD deal success improvement pipeline management and forecasting mechanisms and accelerating the opportunity to cash cycle.

The successful individual will have the ability to think strategically act tactically write effectively and display strong analytical and critical thinking skills. The candidate must also be able to build strong cross-functional working relationships and demonstrate exceptional influencing capabilities organizational skills and attention to detail. This is a hands-on position - the ideal candidate must be willing to "roll up the sleeves" dive deep and solve important business problems.

• Key job responsibilities
• •As a Sr. Sales Operations Manager your role is critical and highly visible across the organization. Your key responsibilities include but are not limited to: • Own P&L in partnership with Line of Business leadership for one or more geographies: accurately plan forecast and execute on the monthly quarterly yearly objectives • Act as Single Point of Contact for the Line of Business for one or more geographies • Define the key sales support systems/processes required to meet the rapid growth of the business and achieve revenue attainment and market development objectives. • Lead strategic planning and annual planning activities with and for the geo leaders • Partner with BD leaders to drive execution of go-to-market strategies and implement the necessary enablement for AWS field sales teams • Own and execute key Field BD operational mechanisms • Define and lead the Premium Support Business Development rhythm of business • Manage the development of continuously-evolving forecast models and methodologies owning the quantitative analysis of the performance of our sales team customers prospects partners markets and products/services including any cadenced reporting. • Ideate and lead initiatives focused on driving business performance efficiency and effectiveness of Premium Support Business Development and to accelerate the opportunity to cash cycle • Drive process improvement and change management - lead and deliver training as needed • Manage the cadenced business reporting for the business segment. • Develop relationships and processes with sales finance ES Leaders HR sales operations and other stakeholders • Ensure consistent and efficient execution of all functions by working closely with internal business partners and stakeholders to drive adoption and implementation of global standards processes and programs.

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Basic qualifications

• - Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• - Experience in sales operations or equivalent
• - Experience developing and implementing systems/tools utilized for CRM, variable compensation, revenue reporting, forecasting, Salesforce automation, etc.
• - Experience defining, refining and implementing sales processes, procedures and policies or equivalent
• - Experience using Microsoft Excel to manipulate and analyze data

Preferred qualifications

• - Experience presenting to senior leadership
• - Experience using Salesforce (or other CRM tool) or BI tools
• - Experience conducting sophisticated and creative analysis of complex data and translate the results into actionable deliverables, messages, and presentations
• - Experience working within a high-growth, technology company

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