Sales Operations Lead

PA Consulting; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in Greater London seeks a proactive professional to support sales transformation. The role involves managing training initiatives, creating impactful sales communications, and facilitating collaboration among sales teams. Ideal candidates will have demonstrated experience in sales activation and account management, strong organizational skills, and a keen ability to build relationships. This full-time position emphasizes driving behavioral change and enabling sales teams to thrive.

Benefits

Health and lifestyle perks

25 days annual leave plus additional days

Generous company pension scheme

Performance-based bonus

PA share ownership

Qualifications

• Proven experience in supporting sales and marketing activities.
• Excellent project management and analytical abilities.
• Ability to deliver impactful sales communications.

Responsibilities

• Support market leads and enable improved sales.
• Maintain onboarding training for new recruits.
• Integrate outputs into campaigns for maximum impact.

Skills

Sales activation

Account management

Sales technologies

Training workshops

Project management

Analytical abilities

Relationship building

Organizational skills

Tools

CRM systems

LinkedIn

Job description

Responsibilities

The role would support market leads and the collaboration lead in the following specific areas :

Overarching support to Sales. Provide ad hoc project management analysis and materials in support of the overall drive for improved sales including :

• Driving bid content management programme in preparation for AI bid writing tool implementation
• Provide support to sales activation sales campaigns sector marketing campaigns and account best practice across PA
• Structuring gathering and making available bite size training workshops and facilitators in sales subjects (e.g. bid writing win themes commercial models Relationship masterclasses etc.)
• Developing and maintaining the onboarding training for all new CSU recruits
• Maintaining all sales and CSU related SharePoint sites (Bid Manual Sales Hub. Bidding Excellence CSU Bid Writing guides Sales transformation etc.)
• Become a super user (with support) on CRM LinkedIn and other sales related platforms to provide best practice advice and guidance to the wider business (as opposed to technical support through Global Service Desk)
• Support creation of Sales Board Papers QBRs and other regular reports

Support to Sales Transformation

Working with the appropriate Partner and CSU leads to ensure agreed deliverables are being progressed barriers to progress identified and overcome and that implementation is undertaken in such a way as to change sales behaviours within PA. Specifically :

• Maintain agile way of working
• Implement a strong governance process
• Remain dissatisfied with deliverables until they have turned into behaviour change and impact
• Integrate outputs and communications into campaigns to maximise impact
• Provide progress reports and feedback through to Head of CSU Head of Markets and the Client Committee as required
• Provide and manage workshops bite size sessions and campaigns

Qualifications : About You

You are an organised proactive and people-focused professional with proven experience in supporting sales and marketing activities within large organisations ideally in a professional services or consultancy environment.

You excel at building relationships and delivering impact through collaboration and serve as a single point of contact for sales-related knowledge.

Key skills and experience required :

• Demonstrable experience in sales activation account management and supporting sales campaigns
• Strong knowledge of sales technologies (such as CRM systems and LinkedIn) with the ability to coach others
• Skilled in delivering training workshops bite-sized learning sessions and creating impactful sales communications
• Excellent project management and analytical abilities with a keen attention to detail
• Proven capability in supporting technology change initiatives and driving best practice adoption
• People skills build relationships quickly and deliver impact through those relationships.
• Knowledge act as a single point of contact for sales-related knowledge
• Organised punctilious and tenacious about actions promises and deliverables
• Sales led growth oriented able to spot and help develop potential opportunities
• Self-starter working directly with a variety of PA leaders comfortable to define own tasks
• Proactive understand the overall objective of the role and manage time and resources to deliver

If you are motivated by enabling sales teams to achieve their best thrive in collaborative environments and enjoy driving behavioural change we would be pleased to hear from you.

We know the skill-gap and somewhat need to tick every box can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates so please dont hesitate to apply wed love to hear from you.

Apply today by completing our online application

Additional Information :

Life At PA encompasses our peoples experience at PA. Its about how we enrich peoples working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.

We believe diversity fuels ingenuity. Diversity of thought brings exciting perspectives; diversity of experience brings a wealth of knowledge and diversity of skills brings the tools we need. When we bring people together with diverse backgrounds identities and minds embracing that difference through an inclusive culture where our people thrive; we unleash the power of diversity bringing ingenuity to life.

Find out more about Life at PA here.

We are dedicated to supporting the physical emotional social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits :

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5additional days
• Generous company pension scheme
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
• Annual performance-based bonus
• PA share ownership
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work give as you earn)

We recruit retain reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age background disability genetic information parental or family status religion or belief race ethnicity nationality sex sexual orientation gender identity (or expression) political belief veteran status or any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We are on a journey towards ensuring our workforce is diverse at all levels and that our firm is representative of the world around us. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process at either application or interview please contact us at recruitment

Remote Work : No

Employment Type : Full-time

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Experience : years

Vacancy : 1