Senior Director of Sales Strategy, Salesforce

France

Salary not provided
Expert level
Paris
Salesforce

World's leading CRM provider

Open for applications

Salesforce

World's leading CRM provider

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseInternal toolsLead generationAnalyticsCloud ComputingSales

Open for applications

Salary not provided
Expert level
Paris

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseInternal toolsLead generationAnalyticsCloud ComputingSales

Company mission

To empower companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way.

Role

Who you are

  • 10+ years previous experience in a business operations role within a high growth SaaS company operating at scale or equivalent experience within a management consulting firm
  • 3+ years of people management experience in a high growth, continuously changing environment
  • Thoughtful leadership, track record of advising leadership and influencing stakeholders
  • Proven experience of rolling out GTM models along several planning cycles
  • Strong project management track record, having successfully led cross-functional strategic initiatives end to end
  • Inspirational people leader, with a passion for attracting and developing top talent

Desirable

  • A reputation for unquestionable ethics and integrity; sets the tone from the top and demonstrates the highest level of integrity, authenticity, and transparency
  • High level of intellectual curiosity and self-awareness with low expressed ego
  • Company-first mindset, demonstrating a continuous focus on what is business relevant and can respond quickly

What the job involves

  • Sales Strategy and Operations is a critical function within Salesforce to drive profitable growth at scale, partnering with our senior leaders as trusted advisors
  • Some of the main topics covered are setting strategic business priorities to drive profitable growth, building and implementing long term GTM strategies, setting best-in class operational processes, systems and tools, owning cross-functional transformational projects end to end and driving change management processes to transform and scale the business in a standard way across countries, segments and clouds
  • We are looking for a leader to act as a trusted business partner to the CEO of France, driving key projects end to end
  • The role will encompass supporting the CEO on their day-to-day operations, which will include GTM design, sales cadence execution, cross-functional alignment with other key functions in France and strategic projects
  • The selected candidate will be part of the EMEA COO leadership team and will manage and develop a team of highly talented Strategy Business Partners and Analysts to cover the aforementioned duties
  • This strategy leader will embrace the challenges of operating in a complex matrix environment, driving alignment and building relationships with cross-functional partners (Marketing, Sales Programs, Enablement, BVS, Finance, Employee Success, etc.), regional peers and HQ functional leaders:
  • Become a trusted advisor to the CEO of France and her leadership team
  • Own complex cross-functional initiatives' end to end, with limited supervision
  • Spearhead the strategy development and execution of France to capture the next wave of growth
  • Lead and develop a best-in-class team, fully aligned and connected with other regional strategy teams, creating an environment that attracts top talent and where everyone can contribute, succeed and grow
  • Lead the governance in France (e.g Forecast, QBRs and other Business Reviews, Headcount and Recruiting Reviews, etc.) and actively participate in cadences led by other functions (e.g Pipeline Councils, Deal Reviews, etc.)

Our take

Salesforce is a global cloud computing company, best known for its on-demand, comprehensive customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. The company was launched to mitigate the doubts that business owners felt regarding third party companies holding their data.

By providing essential, customer-oriented CRM software, Salesforce places itself at the heart of digitised businesses. Furthermore, by building out its AI capabilities, the company removes the complexity of AI, enabling any business to deliver smarter, personalised and more predictive customer experiences.

Due to the continued innovation offered by the company, over 150,000 companies, both big and small, are growing their business with Salesforce today. Despite a tumultuous 2023 filled with activist investors, a boardroom shake-up and the unprecedented step-down of Co-CEO Bret Taylor, Salesforce continues to close several acquisition deals and managed to drive up its stock value by 96% from the end of 2022 to 2023.

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Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

-8% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Jun 2001

$46.9m

SERIES D

Nov 1999

$13.2m

SERIES C

Total funding: $64.5m

Company values

  • Trust - We earn the trust of our customers, employees, and extended family through transparency, security, compliance, privacy, and performance. And we deliver the industry’s most trusted infrastructure
  • Customer Success - So we champion them to achieve extraordinary things. We innovate and expand our business offerings to provide all our stakeholders with new avenues to achieve ever greater success
  • Innovation - Our customers’ input helps us develop products that best serve their business needs. Providing continual technology releases and new initiatives gives our customers a competitive advantage
  • Equality - We believe everyone should be seen, heard, valued, and empowered to succeed. Hearing diverse perspectives fuels innovation, deepens connections between people, and makes us a better company
  • Sustainability – We are committed to bringing the full power of Salesforce to accelerate the world’s journey to net zero

Company HQ

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Marc Benioff

(Chair & CEO)

Previously Senior Vice President at Oracle Corporation for 13 years.

Previously worked as a Software Engineer for over six years. Harris also co-founded Left Coast Software.


People progressing

Joined as Recruiting Director - Futureforce University Recruiting, EMEA, and was promoted to Senior Director - EMEA & LATAM Recruiting, Futureforce after 3 years, and then again to Senior Director - Recruiting after 2 years. Now serve as COO - Employee Success EMEA.

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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Salesforce

  • Our goals:
  • 50% of our U.S. employees will be made up of underrepresented groups (Women, Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Multiracial, LGBTQ+ employees, People with Disabilities, and Veterans) by 2023
  • Double the U.S. representation of Black leaders (VP+) and increase our representation of underrepresented minority (Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Multiracial) leaders by 50% by 2023
  • 50% increase our U.S. representation of underrepresented minority (Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Multiracial) employees by 50% by 2023
  • We’ve met our representation goal nearly a full year early – today, 50.7% of our U.S. employees are members of underrepresented groups

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