Sales Strategy Manager

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · Bangalore, India

This role is for a Sales Strategy & Operations Manager at Salesforce, focusing on sales strategy, annual planning, business rhythm, and GTM strategy. The role involves analyzing data, identifying patterns, and collaborating with sales leadership to optimize productivity and drive growth. While the company heavily emphasizes AI and the candidate is expected to be an 'AI champion' and use AI tools, the core responsibilities are in sales strategy and operations, not directly building or researching AI models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own and drive planning process for your segment
  2. Own and drive Forecast, pipeline, account planning cadence
  3. Convert data into actionable insights, own analytics and insights, identify what's working well, what needs to be fixed, gaps, blind spots and help address the issues early on.
  4. Be the AI champion - automate use cases and workflows
  5. Develop strong understanding of existing Business intelligence tools, dashboards and capabilities, enable sales leadership to drive self service for sales leaders to run their business using data insights objectively.

Skills

Required

  • Data analytics
  • insights
  • sales planning process
  • Sales strategy
  • planning and operations
  • software company experience
  • bookings
  • pipeline
  • Subscription / SaaS data
  • Sales CRM
  • Tableau
  • AI tools
  • intelligence platforms & tools
  • presentation skills
  • powerpoint
  • Google slides

What the JD emphasized

  • 7+ years of experience in Data analytics, insights and sales planning process.
  • Must have worked in Sales strategy, planning and operations organization preferably in a software company.
  • Hands on experience in Sales CRM, Tableau , AI tools, and/or other intelligence platforms & tools.