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This role can be located in San Francisco or New York depending on where the hired candidate currently resides.
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
Our Sales Operations organization is responsible for building the ultimate go-to-market engine to connect our solutions with customer needs at scale. As a Sales Strategy & Operations Associate for LinkedIn Marketing Solutions you will be taking on a leadership role to help crack the most important strategic topics in the sales organization, driving revenue growth and improving sales productivity and customer value. The Associate is also responsible for leading, program managing, and scaling operational and planning processes (e.g. building sales territories, setting sales targets) in partnership with cross-functional stakeholders (e.g. Finance).
The Associate should have a strong strategic mindset and communications skills and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to drive critical business decisions. The candidate should also be able to handle highly sensitive, confidential, and non-routine information, have attention to detail, be open-minded to challenge the status quo, and work on a rapidly changing organization while inspiring excellence from himself/herself and business partners.
Responsibilities
- Lead and provide recommendations on a variety of decision-making projects that will shape LinkedIn’s future go-to-market model
- Act like an owner in driving end-to-end leadership of all planning processes – headcount, financial plan, territory plan, and quota planning by project managing at scale
- Operate as liaison and POC for LMS sales leadership teams across geographies
- Lead strategic projects to determine the direction of the global SOPs team and help establish operating priorities to drive business growth
- Establish strong working relationships with peers in other Sales Operations teams and cross-functional partners (business operations, sales leadership, HR, finance, and systems teams) to achieve objectives
- Contribute to the “people-first” culture of the team by taking on projects to drive engagement and motivation within the team.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or related practical experience
- 3+ years of experience in management consulting, finance, sales operations, business operations, or an analytical/operational role
Preferred Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience with Excel and PowerPoint
- Ability to leverage numbers and insights to influence & drive sound decision making
- Experience in communicating effectively and presenting to Senior Executives
- Ability to build strong partnerships and collaborate with stakeholders
- Experience in working with Tableau, SQL and/or Presto, Anaplan
- Proficiency in Python
- Motivation to stand out from the crowd, disrupting the norm to help the business win
- Ability to effectively solve complex problems from high priority strategic initiatives
Suggested Skills
- Microsoft Excel
- SQL
- Tableau
- Python
LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
The pay range for this role is $78,000 to $126,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.
The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits .
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