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Sales Strategy Analyst/Senior Analyst

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In-Office
Chicago, IL, USA
81K-164K Annually
Senior level
In-Office
Chicago, IL, USA
81K-164K Annually
Senior level
Analyzes sales performance, growth targets, forecasting, GTM planning, market segmentation, territories, quotas, and incentives. Develops performance metrics, reporting infrastructure, executive recommendations, and scalable operational processes. Partners with finance, recruiting, enablement, and employee success teams to support planning, troubleshoot issues, optimize systems, and drive organizational execution.
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Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

Overview of the Role:
As part of a high-performance, fast-paced, and collaborative team, your role will encompass all aspects of running a successful sales organization, which includes GTM (Go-To-Market) planning, growth strategy, sales forecasting, business operations, and data evaluation and analysis. You will work with sales leadership and cross-functional partners to provide a 360° view of the business and drive executive-level recommendations and tools that directly impact an industry-leading Sales team.
Successful candidates will be able to use data to drive insights, provide strategic recommendations, build scalable assets, and guide the charge on execution and organizational change. You will have the opportunity to combine intuition for business, innovative inquiry, insights from sales leaders, and curiosity to accomplish meaningful work to uncover trends and identify insights that deliver impact across the organization.
Sample projects and results range from evaluating worldwide market opportunities, building a scalable reporting infrastructure, supporting the creation of the product growth strategy, market segmentation, sales pipeline and key performance metric reviews.
These teams play a meaningful role in supporting sales leadership at the fastest ever growing Enterprise software company!
Responsibilities:

  • Evaluate ongoing business performance against growth targets to support daily operations
  • Define, design, and interpret key performance metrics to deliver insights and recommendations
  • Triage and troubleshoot operational issues and optimize infrastructure/systems/processes for scale
  • Support extensive GTM planning process and pivotal initiatives through capacity planning, efficiency, review, market segmentation, territory carving, quota/incentive design, and more
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with finance (budget, headcount planning), recruiting (hiring profile, seasonality), field enablement/programs, Employee Success, etc.
  • Develop and deliver presentations for senior executives

Required Skills:

  • 2-3+ years of professional experience, in a highly analytical role or strategy department
  • Advanced Excel skills
  • Degree or equivalent relevant experience required. Experience will be evaluated based on the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)

Preferred Skills:

  • Experience with Google Sheets, SQL, Tableau a plus
  • Outstanding problem solving skills: consistent track record to ask questions, structure sophisticated problems, develop solutions and recommendations
  • Strong communication skills to translate complex info into easily digestible insights and executive presentations
  • Strong presentation skills, especially related to building compelling PowerPoint/Google Slides presentations
  • Resilient Self-starter and high degree of motivation to go above and beyond the task at hand
  • Highly collaborative style with strong networking skills across business functions
  • Flexibility and ability to adjust on the fly to new demands; sense of urgency
  • Passionate around quantitative analysis, Excel, and reasoning

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.

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In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.

At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions. The typical base salary range for this position is $80,900 - $150,300 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $97,400 - $163,500 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.

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