Senior Sales Strategy & Finance Manager

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What is The Role:

The Senior Sales Strategy & Operations Manager for APJ is responsible for equipping our APJ regional sales leadership with operational excellence in a consistent and collaborative manner.

This role will be managing sales strategy, planning, reporting, and analysis efforts around sales pipeline management in the APJ region. They will also be a critical business partner and growth enabler for the APJ sales team. In addition, this role will also work cross functionally to help support our entire GTM organization such as Sales Development and Sales Engineering orgs.

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:

• Act as a trusted business partner to APJ sales leaders and team members, leveraging data and analyses to land business insights, develop GTM strategies, and scale the business.
• Manage operational support to APJ Sales Leadership team on rhythm of the business activities; including business reviews, forecasting, annual planning and sales cadence.
• Deliver improvements to the reporting tools, methods, and processes utilized by the team to increase the availability and granularity of actionable data to their customers.
• Scale and mature critical business processes to improve business performance
• Drive the pipeline 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.)

What You Bring:

• 10+ years work experience in Sales, Sales Operations, Strategy or similar field in SaaS organizations with strong exposure to go-to-market strategy
• Experience in working independently, managing multiple concurrent projects and driving strategic and operational initiatives in a cross-functional environment.
• Can work cross-functionally with Sales leaders and subject matter experts
• Ability to conduct sophisticated and creative analysis of complex data and translate the results into actionable insights, deliverables, messages and proposals
• Experience developing and implementing metrics to effectively measure and monitor sales performance and productivity improvements
• Demonstrated ability to structure complex problems, develop solutions, and craft recommendations and results into easily digestible messages, communications, and executive presentations.
• Demonstrated ability to define, refine and implement sales processes, procedures, and policies.
• Excellent communication and engagement skills
• Experience using Salesforce.com, Tableau, Clari, and/or Workday Adaptive.
• Power user proficiency with the Google suite (especially Sheets and Slides)

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People:

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions, and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.

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