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Job Description:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a motivated, detail oriented, and quantitative individual to join our Business Operations team as a Sales Operations Planner. We are looking for a person who thrives in a multi-project, fast paced and fun environment. To succeed as part of this team, you should be a talented and experienced individual with a background in administering and supporting CRM, CPQ and SaaS applications.

The Sales Operations Planner will work cross-functionally with several organizations (including sales, marketing, operations, logistics, finance, and support) with the main objective of supporting Sales in the end-to-end customer lifecycle and yearly planning activities for our specialty sales teams.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about technology and entrepreneurship, a fast learner, and able to adapt quickly while keeping focused on high impact projects.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with Sales leadership to support territory planning, quota setting, and capacity modeling.
• Support annual and quarterly sales planning cycles, including budgeting and target setting.
• Identify and drive process improvements across sales operations and planning workflows.
• Serve as a trusted adviser to sales teams and channel on pricing, product configuration, and business terms to support the sales effort.
• Manage and administer the CRM application, Salesforce.com, and become an authority in the application while providing general administrative support for the tool.
• Redesign and improve existing sales and operational processes as the organization evolves.
• Ensure data accuracy and integrity across CRM, forecasting, and reporting systems.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Finance, Marketing, and Supply Chain to align plans and assumptions.
• Provide ad hoc analysis and insights to support strategic initiatives.
• Build, run, and analyze reports and dashboards for users and managers & in doing so provide insight into the business.
• Ability to drive the end-to-end life cycle of a quote to an order.
• Triage new requests and set appropriate delivery expectations with business partners.
• Partner with sales team and channel to help scope, configure and price quotes.
• Act as a liaison between sales and order management to streamline booking process.
• Respond to ad hoc requests flowing into the sales operations group from various teams, regarding reports, processes, requests for assistance, and general support.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree required.
• Typically, 4+ years' sales planning and delivery experience with Salesforce.com.
• Anaplan experience required.
• Experience with Salesforce and Oracle CPQ preferred.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel; experience with BI tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Looker) preferred
• Ability to take initiative, work flexibly, and set priorities with minimal direct supervision.
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, highly organized and thorough.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize and handle multiple assignments with competing deadlines.
• High energy level and passion in getting the job done right
• Ability to apply attained experiences and knowledge in solving routine to moderately complex problems.
• Excellent business liaison skills. Ability to digest system complexity and articulate to business users in concise and simple language.
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills with a strong customer service attitude.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with forecasting and demand planning methodologies
• Familiarity with compensation planning and incentive structures
• Experience in SaaS, CPG, or other data-driven sales environments
• Ability to translate data insights into clear business recommendations

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