Strategic Operations Lead: UK & ME P&L + Salesforce

Fortune; Slough; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortune seeks a high-visibility operations professional to partner with senior stakeholders across Europe, Middle East, and the UK. You will oversee the UK & ME P&L, manage Salesforce reporting, and shape the business’s operating cadence in collaboration with the CEO and Finance, Sales, and Marketing.

The role emphasizes sound judgment, independent decision-making, and the ability to challenge numbers and drive process improvements to reduce manual effort.

Qualifications

• 4-6 years experience in business/commercial/sales/project operations.
• Hands-on Salesforce reporting experience.
• Strong Excel; comfortable with budgets, forecasts, margin.
• Sharp commercial judgment and independent decision-making ability.
• Confident communicator, comfortable challenging senior stakeholders on data and gaps.
• Can push work cross-team without creating friction.
• Bonus: media, events, sponsorship, publishing, or B2B sales background.
• Bonus: experience automating reports/dashboards (Excel macros, Salesforce automation, or similar tools).

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted partner to senior leadership (CEO, Finance, Sales, Marketing, Legal) on commercial and operational decisions.
• Own UK and Middle East P&L; track actuals vs plan; reconcile with Finance's official numbers.
• Run weekly Salesforce reporting: pipeline, forecast, activity, revenue.
• Help improve operational efficiency by automating recurring data outputs and reports.
• Deliver decision-ready summaries for leadership reviews.

Skills

Stakeholder partnership

Forecasting

Data-driven decisions

Independent decisions

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Salesforce

Excel

Job description

Fortune seeks a high-visibility operations professional to partner with senior stakeholders across Europe, Middle East, and the UK. You will oversee the UK & ME P&L, manage Salesforce reporting, and shape the business’s operating cadence in collaboration with the CEO and Finance, Sales, and Marketing.

The role emphasizes sound judgment, independent decision-making, and the ability to challenge numbers and drive process improvements to reduce manual effort.