Ready for a new challenge? Join Guidewire as a Sales Operations Analyst within the Customer Success organization! We would love to see your background. Our sales and marketing teams are key to Guidewire's success. Our industry is undergoing a technology-led transformation, and our teams are vital partners to insurers in helping them plan for success. The ideal candidate is highly analytical and business savvy, excels at writing and project management, able to independently manage priorities and multitask, and can partner with key decision makers to drive to successful outcomes. Reporting to the Sales Operations Manager, the Sales Operations Analyst will primarily focus on contract management and renewals with the Customer Success/Account Managers. Using knowledge of the company’s products and services, your responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Contract management, tracking and calculating financial metrics, price quotes, invoicing, business approvals, and project managing the operational requirements for varying levels of deal sizes and complexities. You will partner with cross-functional teams including Customer Success/Account Managers, Sales, Services, Legal, Finance, and the rest of the Operations team to align resources to facilitate renewals and ongoing contract management.

Specific Responsibilities

Serve as a trusted advisor to the Customer Success/Account Managers on contract review and business terms to support the customer relationship.
Ensure compliance with published sales and business approval policies. Be an advocate and partner to internal organizations to understand complex sales issues.
Assess priority and urgency, anticipate bottlenecks and balance customer demands.
Build strong productive relationships and feedback loops with Customer Success/Account Managers, legal, finance, and operations teams to drive efficiency and organization satisfaction with the contracting process best practices.
Drive current customer contract audit and verification, having good communication with external C-level customers on upcoming fees and contract management.
Manage invoicing for all recurring License, Subscription and Maintenance revenue.
Preparation of non-standard contract amendments.
Project-manage the entire proposal process for customer account related questionnaires (non-sales related), from initial review of the questionnaire to release of final deliverable to the client. This includes ensuring all packaging of responses is consistently professional, assigning action items, and holding colleagues accountable to deadlines.
Assist with special projects as assigned.
Position will require less than 10% travel.

Skills Required

Strong organizational skills and ability to handle multiple priorities simultaneously
Exceptional oral and written communication
Ability to communicate with senior executives
Ability to adapt quickly to a changing environment
Extensive Google Workspace skills are required
Experience with Salesforce strongly preferred

Education Required

Bachelor’s Degree (preferably in Business or Communications) or three or more years of experience providing professional executive-level sales support.

About Guidewire

Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 500 insurers in 38 countries, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire.

As a partner to our customers, we continually evolve to enable their success. We are proud of our unparalleled implementation track record with 1000+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of applications that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.

For more information, please visit www.guidewire.com and follow us on Twitter: @Guidewire_PandC .

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