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Splunk, a Cisco company, is building a safer and more resilient digital world with an end-to-end full stack platform made for a hybrid, multi-cloud world. Leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. Our customers love our technology, but it's our caring employees that make Splunk stand out as an amazing career destination. No matter where in the world or what level of the organization, we approach our work with kindness. So bring your work experience, problem-solving skills and talent, of course, but also bring your joy, your passion and all the things that make you, you. Come help organizations be their best, while you reach new heights with a team that has your back.

Join us as we pursue our disruptive new vision to make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. We are a company filled with people who are passionate about our product and seek to deliver the best experience for our customers. At Splunk, we're committed to our work, customers, having fun and most importantly to each other's success. Learn more about Splunk careers and how you can become a part of our journey!

This role can be performed anywhere in the United States.

Your Impact:

• Sales forecasting: Own end-to-end management of the sales forecasting process including data analysis and recommendations to sales leadership.
• Reporting and analysis: Build and maintain dashboards and reports in Salesforce and other Business Intelligence (BI) tools. Analyze sales performance metrics, pipeline health and forecast accuracy. Integrates operational insights from multiple domains to advise leadership.
• Planning & Readiness: Support Annual Planning including territory design and quota settingwithin the Splunk Americas Sales and Partner organizations.
• Channel Operations: Analyze partner demand generation, analyzing pipeline health, velocity, and conversion to hit quarterly targets. Establish and monitor rigorous SLAs and KPIs to ensure organizational accountability and alignment.
• Operational Excellence: Establish strong operating cadence to drive consistency and predictability throughout the sales organization.
• Sales process optimization: Streamline the end-to-end sales process to eliminate bottlenecks and increase productivity using AI, automation, Salesforce and reporting systems.
• Thought leadership: act as a trusted advisor to sales and partner leaders on GTM Strategy and decisions including sales coverage, capacity, plays and tactics across all teams in Splunk.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with sales, channel, marketing, finance, and customer success teams to ensure alignment on strategy, messaging and go-to-market initiatives.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience: 3+ years in Sales Operations, Business Operations or a relevant function.
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing or a related field.
• Technical Skills: High proficiency with CRM software (e.g. Salesforce), advanced excel skills and experience with BI Tools (e.g. Tableau).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Problem-solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret complex data and translate insights into action.
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of presenting complex findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Organizational skills: Exceptional attention to detail and ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment.

At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We've been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you'll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco's plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco's policies:

• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees

• 1 paid day off for employee's birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco

• Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees

• Exempt employees participate in Cisco's flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)

• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours ofunused sick timecarried forwardfrom one calendar yearto the next

• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members

• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco's policies.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

• .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

• 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

• 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and

• Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco's sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.