Sales Operations Associate

LinkedIn; London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading technology company as a Sales Strategy & Operations Associate in London, where you'll partner with senior executives to drive revenue growth and optimize operations. With a hybrid working model, this role emphasizes collaboration and strategic decision-making to enhance the sales organization’s effectiveness. Ideal candidates will possess strong analytical skills, prior experience in sales operations or similar fields, and the ability to thrive in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in management consulting, finance, sales operations, or an analytical role.
• Proficient with Excel, SQL, and PowerPoint.
• Experience communicating effectively and presenting to senior executives.

Responsibilities

• Lead and provide recommendations on decision-making projects impacting sales strategy.
• Drive strategic planning processes through data-driven recommendations.
• Track business performance and advise sales leadership on forecasting.

Skills

Analytical

Prioritization

Communication

Education

BA/BS degree

Job description

Company Description

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

Company Description

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

Job Description

This role will be based in London.

At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.

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, you will be partnering with senior sales executives to 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, executing 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, be open-minded to challenge the status quo and work on a rapidly changing organization while inspiring excellence from them and their 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 strategic planning processes through data-driven recommendations (e.g. customer segmentation, headcount, financial and territory planning, quota setting)
• Track business performance and provide insights and recommendations to advise sales leadership on forecasting
• Lead operational processes of the sales organization, such as: quota management, territory allocation, audits, report and dashboard development
• Establish strong working relationships with peers in other Sales Operations teams and cross functional partners (business operations, sales leadership, compensation, finance and systems teams) to achieve objectives
  
  
  

Qualifications

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience in management consulting, finance, sales operations, business operations, or an analytical/operational role
• 2+years of experiencewith Excel, SQL and PowerPoint
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to leverage numbers and insights to influence & drive sound decision making
• BA/BS degree
• Experience in communicating effectively and present to senior executives
• Ability to build strong partnerships and collaborate with stakeholders
• Experience in working with Tableauand/or Presto
• 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:

• Analytical
• Prioritization
• Communication
  
  
  

Additional Information

Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates

Please follow this link to access the document that provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: https://legal.linkedin.com/candidate-portal.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Internet

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