Meta is seeking a highly strategic, quantitative, process and detail-oriented business leader to join the EMEA Sales Strategy Planning & Operations team. This is a key opportunity to be part of an EMEA team that plays an integral role in executing Small & Medium Business Group's (SMBG) business processes and sales plans, driving operational rigour and efficiency, and producing insights to inform decisions. The mission of the Sales Strategy Planning & Operations group is to maximize business performance by being the objective, trusted partner to the sales business through insights, operational rigour and cross-functional collaboration. We identify and drive critical projects and initiatives to support revenue growth, while supporting the operational cadence to surface business insights. In your role as the Sales Strategy Planning & Operations lead, you will be a key partner to the business delivering against three core functions: 1) Core operations (e.g. performance reporting, driving rhythm of business (target-setting and tracking) across sales teams 2) Take a data-driven approach to supporting business growth and driving efficiencies across processes, organization and systems; identify market and product opportunities to global teams 3) Support issues escalation and resolution across revenue, product and sales rigour.

Responsibilities

Provide analytical support to help drive initiatives critical to growth of our fastest growing ad sales channel, Mid-Market and Small Business Group (collectively SMBG). Uncover trends and insights about product opportunities, providing data-driven feedback of market nuances to central product teams. Provide key insights for business leadership to support strategic decision-making Collaborate with Sales leadership and cross-functional stakeholders on strategic projects focused on driving efficiency, uncovering new opportunities, improving resource allocation and operating models. Present findings and recommendations using data to the leadership teams Drive rhythm of business with operational rigour, support portfolio management and service model, lead operational reviews and track performance on regional goals and priorities (for example monthly/quarterly business reviews), identify opportunities and key roadblocks to progress, and work efficiently across teams and time-zones to remove them Communicate with and influence leadership on a regular basis, highlighting progress towards goals, key risks and dependencies. Translate and execute global initiatives to regional / local level, and drive alignment through partnerships with regional/local and cross functional teams As this role supports a Global organization, partner and collaborate with cross functional teams across timezones to deliver shared outcomes

Qualifications

7+ years of experience leading strategy and operations projects in a consulting environment, corporate strategy/operations team, quantitative field (e.g. investment banking, PE/VC) or similar tech company Proficient in SQL and experience extracting and manipulating data from large / complex databases Track record of using data to understand business problems, generate actionable insights and recommendations Problem solving and analytical skills, proficiency in solving complex and varied business problems (commercial, operational, organizational) Experience communicating with and influencing stakeholders at all levels of an organization Experience thriving in a complex, ambiguous and fast-changing environment with agility to drive results through effective problem solving, collaboration and communication

Sales Strategy Planning and Operations Lead - SMBG EMEA

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