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Reporting to the Director of Strategic Planning for Customer Success, the Strategy & Analytics Lead will drive strategy and alignment with leaders around our Success go-to-market approach and be responsible for the execution of the plan. This individual will gain knowledge and experience on how an enterprise software company segments customers, optimize headcount capacity, and goes to market, as well as become an expert on the Salesforce platform. The role impacts thousands of Customer Success employees globally and is critical in supporting the annual planning cycle. This is an opportunity to have direct interaction with leadership, influence decisions, and deploy resources, which ultimately drives growth and scale in our multi-billion dollar business. Success in the position requires a combination of critical and thinking, creative problem-solving abilities, effective communication skills, strong intuition for business, and analytical skills. Do you want to join a world-class team with outstanding peers, and a management team that will mentor you and give you opportunities to help grow your skills and your career? If yes, come join us!

RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Leverage analytical thinking to coordinate with cross-functional teams and craft recommendations on go-to-market plan
- Actively work across multiple business functions (Strategy & Ops teams, Field Leadership, Business Intelligence, Compensation) to drive toward go-to-market strategy decisions and see out the corresponding execution
- Build positive relationships across the business and become a trusted resource for annual planning questions across Success, Renewals, and Success Plan Sales
- Help deploy our alignment of resources to customers as part of our annual planning (Go For Growth) in Customer Success, with a focus on Renewals and Success Plan Sales
- Support with ad-hoc strategic projects outside of the annual planning cycle, developing recommendations and presentations for executive leadership in Customer Success
- Contribute to workforce and program spend planning across existing and emerging businesses to drive alignment across hiring plans and corporate growth strategy

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS REQUIRED:
- 5+ years of management consulting experience, sales strategy, sales operations, corporate finance planning and analysis (FP&A), or related experience
- Create innovative solutions to business problems, making trade-offs between partner groups, and persuading collaborators of a chosen approach
- Understanding of Software as a Services (SaaS) business model
- Ability to work independently and drive the details of a complex project plan spanning multiple teams
- Strong analytics skills in Google Sheets (or similar) to analyze data to develop insights and make data-driven recommendations
- Strong Google Slides (or similar) skills; ability to use slides to make a persuasive presentation
- Apply creative thinking to complex problems to develop fresh solutions to drive the business forward
- Excellent communication, presentation, conflict resolution, and negotiation skills
- Experience using analytics or statistical software (Tableau, or similar), light coding (e.g. SQL), and familiarity with databases (Snowflake, or similar) considered an asset

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