Sr Sales Operation Manager

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Director, Sales Operations - Central

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Overview

Genesys is seeking an experienced Central Sales Operations Director. This role is critical to lead the operational execution across the field organisations, including Sales Executives, Sales Engineers, Overlay Specialists, and Channel Partners. This role will help drive the evolution of GTM structure, productivity optimisation, planning, and operational processes. Primary responsibilities include operational execution and cadence, establishing consistency and scalability in Lead to Cash processes, creating business performance insights, fiscal planning activities (e.g., territory design and quota-setting), optimising sales productivity and deploying sales capacity to support the GTM design.  The successful candidate will not only possess a broad understanding of sales, channel & alliances, and business operations within the Enterprise Software industry but also must communicate effectively with senior-level sales executives and back office functional leadership. This candidate will be data-driven, self-motivated, sales business application savvy, intellectually curious, a fast learner, detail-oriented, and able to move quickly while keeping focused on high-impact projects with limited direction and supervision.

The Central Sales Operations Director is a member of the EMEA Operations team, reporting to the Senior Director EMEA Sales Operations and will function as a strategist, consultant and implementer, with a key focus on streamlining all sales operations activities based on the priorities of the VP, Global Sales Operations.

The Central Sales Operations Director is the key business partner to the sub-regional Sales VP and back office business operational functions. This role is expected to have outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills and can synthesize high volumes of information and data to support a rapidly changing organisation. Specifically, the role is a hands-on Manager that will provide strategic and operational support to the Sales, Sales Engineering and Specialist, and Partner organisations. The role will be expected to drive repeatability, predictability, and scalability across the business. The role will partner closely with cross-functional partners to help establish and execute GTM strategy, Sales segmentation, territory design, quota setting, sales process, and KPI/scorecard frameworks to support the business in exceeding both short and long-term financial goals. They and the team will both lead and support the execution of multiple strategic cross-functional projects that are crafted to increase bookings, productivity, and overall efficiency in meeting corporate objectives.

Expectations for this job profile and activities are typically as follows:

• Manage a key sub functional and/or geography-specific business area that is typically made of multiple sub-teams.
• Work with complex initiatives and problems that often span and have impact across their sub-teams and adjacent areas.
• Interact with executive management and has influence over their respective area.
• Assisting sales teams with sales reporting, analytics, sales forecasting and pipeline acceleration
• Assisting sales teams with individual account, segmentation and sales territory planning

What You will Do:

Key Responsibilities, (including but not limited to):

• Be an effective business partner
  • Act as an adviser to the sub-regional VP Sales and function as a proxy when needed
  • Proactively assess Central go-to-market coverage and performance and identify, evaluate and resolve fundamental issues, providing strategy and direction
  • Work with sub-regional VP and EMEA Senior Director Sales Operations to p