Senior Associate- Sales Strategy & Operations

  • Full-time
  • Workplace Type: Hybrid
  • Career Track & Grade: IC3/8
  • Department: Sales

Company Description

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to help members of all backgrounds and experiences achieve more in their careers. Our vision is to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Every day our members use our products to make connections, discover opportunities, build skills and gain insights. We believe amazing things happen when we work together in an environment where everyone feels a true sense of belonging, and that what matters most in a candidate is having the skills needed to succeed. It inspires us to invest in our talent and support career growth. Join us to challenge yourself with work that matters.

At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers a hybrid work option, meaning you can both work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what’s best for you and when it is important for your team to be together. 

 

Job Description

As a Senior Sales Operations Associate, you will act as an adviser to executives in the global sales and operations team. You will be responsible for cracking the most important strategic issues facing our talent solutions business and running normal operational reporting for the region. 

Responsibilities: 

  • Lead projects with key stakeholders and cross-functional partners to make data-driven decisions on topics including: sales incentive design, forecast modeling, territory optimization, product mix analysis and process improvement

  • Play a vital role in driving our annual strategic planning from Territory planning to financial planning process through data-driven recommendations 

  • Gather requirements and project manage changes to our processes and sales technology that result in improvements in sales rep productivity 

  • Gain management confidence in work so that the insights you produce are utilized in executive and board-level presentations 

  • Establish strong working relationships with business operations, sales management and systems teams to achieve objectives without management involvement. 

  • Partner with sales executives on all operational and strategic requests 

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications: 

  • 4+ years of experience in management consulting, sales operations or investment banking 

  • 2+ years of experience working in/with sales organizations 

Preferred Qualifications: 

  • MBA degree in business or related field 

  • Experience with financial modeling and data analysis 

  • Experience with Salesforce.com, SQL/relational databases, Hadoop and reporting tools like Tableau 

  • Expert knowledge of MS Office (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel) 

  • Excellent communication, project and time management, writing and presentation skills with the ability to confidently interact with senior management 

  • Ability to see beyond the numbers to drive sound decision making 

  • Ability to effectively manage time, prioritize tasks and work within deadlines with little supervision 

  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, startup environment 

Suggested Skills: 

  • Excel, PowerPoint, SQL 

  • Strong Communication & Stakeholder Management 

  • Problem Solver

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