OEC provides software solutions to those who work in the automotive parts and repair industry. Our solutions make it easier for automotive industry professionals to buy and sell parts, conduct repair research & planning, optimize estimates, improve the parts supply chain, and more. OEC partners with many of the world’s largest manufacturers, dealers and suppliers, shops and repairers, and service providers, giving our customers access to a comprehensive network and a streamlined workflow.
- Owns revenue planning, forecasting, and performance management. Owns the company pipeline management and forecast process with Sales and Finance leadership. Builds a distinct pipeline and forecasting method for each revenue model and rolls them into one view leadership can act on.
- Partners with leadership on strategic planning from the top of funnel down to bottom; co-owns sales compensation planning with Finance and Sales teams including plan designs by role/revenue type and quota-to-comp alignment.
- Defines and enforces state gates, activity standards and leading indicators for sales teams. Embeds a common qualification and selling methodology (MEDDIC) into sales/GTM systems through automated processes or other mechanisms.
- Partners with Finance to deliver board and sponsor-grade revenue reporting.
- Leads the revenue data, insights and related governance functions, evolving the team from an analytics producer to answer producer, cascading dashboards from executive to sales leader to individual representatives. Owns the GTM metrics definition library. Partners with the Business Information Systems team to create an enforce a master data management and governance policy. Optimizes enterprise visibility processes. Expands prospect and customer segmentation and enrichment for audience building and cross-sell/upsell.
- Co-leads systems and business system transformation. Owns the GTM tech-stack roadmap and its adoption. Ensures systems are integrated end-to-end, and partners with Marketing Operations to streamline the lead-to-close motion across customer types and sales teams. Removes administrative work from sellers where process, automation, or AI can absorb it.
- Oversees revenue enablement and seller productivity. Ensures the team has coverage from onboarding, playbooks, product readiness, coaching, certification, and manager excellence. Ties enablement activities to revenue outcomes.
- Provides oversight for AI-powered GTM execution and selling. Sets and executes the AI strategy for revenue teams in partnership with the Chief Marketing Officer.
- Leads, mentors, and develops the Revenue Enablement and Revenue Operations & Analysis leaders and teams. Sets goas, priorities, and accountability. Empowers leaders to manage performance and execution. Identifies gaps in organization capabilities, skills and knowledge, and provides resources and tools to fill gaps. Ensures development plans are in place for high-potential employees.
- Owns engagement, recognition, promotion and retention strategies so the organization keeps talent the plan depends on.
- Recruits, hires and onboards department leaders and staff, positioning new hires to deliver quickly.
- Leads development of the department budgets. Allocates budget, headcount and AI capacity to business priorities and scaling revenue organizational capabilities with fiscal discipline.
Experience
At least 15 years of experience across revenue enablement, sales operations and go-to-market strategy in a B2B SaaS environment. Work background must include the following:
- Track record of successfully leading people managers and building a multi-layer team across sales operations, forecasting and analytics, and revenue enablement.
- Demonstrable experience owning sales forecasting and analytics processes and championing reporting metrics, projections, and team performance data.
- Strong body of experience partnering with Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, Enterprise sales teams, and Finance.
- Experience deploying MEDDIC methodology framework across multiple business units (Sales, Customer Success, Enterprise Sales, etc.).
- Hands-on work leading a business systems transformation/implementation (CRM, billing, lead-to-cash, etc.).
- Solid implementation of AI tools across a team's workflow to enhance and enable sales productivity.
Must also be able to demonstrate the following skills and abilities:
- Approachable leadership style, with the ability to lead diverse teams and create an engaging and positive culture that motivates and empowers others to do great work.
- Executive presence, with the ability to build strategic alliances and collaborative relationships across all levels of internal and external stakeholders, including investors.
- Fluency in SaaS metrics and in how revenue-recognition rules affect bookings and forecasting.
- Can operate at both altitudes including setting the multi-year roadmap and personally inspecting data when a number looks wrong.
- Strong change management leadership to drive adoption of new processes, systems, and AI tools.
- Exceptional communication skills and can tailor messaging to a specific audience or call to action.
- Engaging presentation skills and can explain complex data simply to executive, sales, and frontline audiences.
- Strong business acumen to strategize and plan and communicate a big-picture view that resonates with others.
- Excellent judgement and problem-solving skills including negotiation and conflict resolution.
- Ability to manage and allocate resources in line with budget and business goals.
Travel
- Occasional travel a few times per year for business/executive meetings and conferences, primarily to OEC executive offices (10-15%).
What makes working at OEC awesome? It varies from employee to employee. For some, it's the flexibility - whether it's remote work or a hybrid or in-person role, OEC takes our teams across multiple time zones and international communities. For others, it's the strong sense of camaraderie and community that celebrates both individuals and team-driven contributions. Or it could be the empowerment and how the team is encouraged to take risks, learn, and grow within a dynamic and supportive environment. But no matter what gets us out of bed in the morning, our whole global community is inspired to be forward thinking and drive innovative solutions for the automotive parts and repair industry.
OEConnection is subject to certain governmental recordkeeping and reporting requirements for the administration of civil rights laws and regulations. In order to comply with these laws, we invite applicants and employees to voluntarily self-identify their gender, race and ethnicity. Submission of this information is strictly voluntary and refusal to provide it will not subject you to any adverse treatment. The information obtained will be kept confidential and may only be used in accordance with the provision of applicable laws, executive orders, and regulations, including those that require the information to be summarized and reported to the federal government for civil rights enforcement. When reported, data will not identify any specific individual. This information will be maintained separately from your application for employment. If you do not wish to self-identify at this time, you may do so in the future by submitting this form. Failure to provide the following information will not subject you to any adverse action or treatment. OEConnection is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, marital status, national origin, sexual orientation, citizenship status, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, compensation, benefits, training, termination, promotions, or any other condition of employment or career development.
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