We're looking for a Sales Operation Coordinator to join our team in London as part of our Sales function.
Your Team: You will report to the Sales Operations Lead, you will help to ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of our sales process to improve the overall productivity of our sales teams.
Your Role: You will be an integral part of the sales operations function supporting commercial teams across Intelligence, eLearning, Advisory and Events products and services.
Key Responsibilities
- Key point of contact for sales, customer success and marketing teams on all sales operations queries
- Administrative support in Salesloft including coordination of users and sales cadences
- Maintenance of commercial reports and dashboards in Salesforce and Google Sheets
- Coordinating and maintaining documentation relating to sales process and training
- Onboarding new users to Salesloft and Salesforce
- Liaising with marketing to ensure the timely delivery of leads to sales teams
- Reviewing sales pipeline data to ensure it is accurate and well maintained
- You are an advocate and ally for diversity, equity and inclusion
- You are a connector, working hard to ensure people and projects are not inadvertently siloed or silenced
Your Experience
- Strong organizational skills with attention to detail and accuracy
- Hard working and motivated to deliver high standards of work
- Personable and approachable with good communication skills
- Proficiency with Google Sheets, Gmail, Drive and other Google applications
- Experience using Salesforce and/or Salesloft preferred
If you don't meet every single requirement, we'd still encourage you to apply. At LIONS, we are committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you are excited about this role we would still like you to apply.
Who are we?
The LIONS brand is probably most synonymous with Cannes Lions, The International Festival of Creativity, the definitive meeting place for the global creative communications and advertising community. It’s five days of inspiration, aspiration, unlimited magic and potential. The Festival has been championing creative excellence since 1954 with the goal of providing a global destination and the definitive benchmark for creativity that drives progress.
LIONS is going through an exciting time as it’s recently repositioned as The Home of Creativity, supporting those in the business of creativity at every step of their journeys with an extended portfolio of new advisory, learning and intelligence services. Our purpose is to drive progress through creativity for an incredibly diverse and talented global creative community.
You will join a team of change makers. The team’s purpose is to champion change to create the most powerful global creative community and drive growth for the brand.
LIONS is part of Ascential. Ascential takes the world’s leading brands to the heart of what’s next for their industries. We do this through our events, intelligence products and advisory services. Our 700+ people serve a global customer base from more than 100 countries in the large and growing Marketing and Financial Technology sectors. Ascential is part of the Informa Group.
Why Choose Us?
Two divisions. Three continents. One great culture - we want working for Ascential to be the best career move you’ve ever made.
Ascential is a people-powered company, and we’re committed to supporting diversity, equity and inclusion. We publish an annual DEI Report, setting out our goals and progress. We invest in Employee Groups including Able to Thrive, Ascential Pride, Black in Business and Empower Women’s Network. And our inclusive recruitment practices and early talent programmes help us to bring curious, passionate people from every walk of life into our team.
We’re committed to ensuring that the impact of our business on our environment - and the communities we operate in - is a positive one. That means making sure that each event we run is the most sustainable it’s ever been. We also default all of our pension plans to sustainable options, so that our people’s savings are invested in ways that help rather than hinder our planet.
Helping people to connect and drive progress isn’t a business-only goal. We know that the world is a better place when we lead with heart, so we support charitable causes that make a difference. We provide opportunities to give back through Volunteer Days and our charity partnership with Media Trust.
We value output, not hours. Most of our roles ask for 1-2 days a week in your nearest office. But if that’s not possible for you, let’s talk. Flexible work conversations are actively encouraged here.
Only you know what’s most important to you. That’s why we offer a benefits and wellbeing package that you can tailor to your needs. Some of these include:
- 25 days of holiday per year - with an option to buy/ sell upto 5 days
- Pension, Life Assurance and Income Protection
- Access to either our commission, bonus or profit share schemes, dependent on the role
- Flexible benefits platform with options including Private Medical, Dental Insurance, Critical Illness and the Ascential Shares Scheme
- Employee assistance programme, season ticket loans and cycle to work scheme
- Volunteering opportunities and charitable giving options
- Learning and development opportunities, to encourage and empower everyone to grow
We want to ensure everyone has the opportunity to perform their best when interviewing, so if you require any reasonable adjustments that would make you more comfortable during the process, please let us know so that we can do our best to support you.
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