Sales Strategy & Operations Manager, Okta

EMEA

Salary not provided
Tableau
Excel
Salesforce
Outreach
Zuora
Anaplan
Mid and Senior level
London
Okta

Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground

Job no longer available

Okta

Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground

1001+ employees

B2BSecurityInternal toolsSaaSIdentity

Job no longer available

Salary not provided
Tableau
Excel
Salesforce
Outreach
Zuora
Anaplan
Mid and Senior level
London

1001+ employees

B2BSecurityInternal toolsSaaSIdentity

Company mission

To improve the connections between people and tools to make companies more productive and secure.

Role

Who you are

  • Minimum of 4 years experience at a high growth SaaS company with a focus in supporting Enterprise Sales teams in an operational capacity
  • The ability to deeply interrogate and manipulate data, the confidence and curiosity to understand the implications of the results, and the ability to recommend and present solutions to senior stakeholders
  • A demonstrated record of developing initiatives that impact productivity
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, and able to work with all seniority levels across the business. You can hold a meeting with senior directors and VPs
  • Demonstrated ability to be proactive, self-driven, and make pragmatic decisions when necessary
  • Salesforce mastery: complex dashboards & reports, custom report types, calculated fields, workflows
  • Exceptional quantitative and MS Excel skills (sumifs, index/match and vlookup, table formulas) with data integrations (Salesforce automation)
  • The desire and capacity to work independently AND collaboratively

Desirable

  • Experience with emerging automation tools and AI
  • Experience with Tableau or other analysis/BI tools
  • Familiarity with Zuora, Salesforce CPQ, or other CPQ or Q2C tools
  • Familiarity with Anaplan
  • Familiarity with sales productivity tools (Outreach, Clari, people.ai)

What the job involves

  • As a team we strive to be the brain and the spine of the Sales team at Okta.
  • As part of the wider Go-To-Market Strategy & Operations group, we protect the investment in Okta’s rapidly growing Sales organisation by ensuring Sales has the insight, tools, and processes it needs to run effectively and efficiently
  • You’ll partner closely with two of our sales VPs to put structures in place that help the organisation grow revenue through scalable investments in routes to market.
  • You’ll collaborate with other colleagues to design and implement your solutions, including Business Technology, Data & Analytics, and Sales Enablement
  • This person will ideally be located within a commutable distance to London as we operate a flexible, hybrid working model (at least 1 day in the office) and can travel to our other European offices once per quarter for QBRs or other in-person meetings
  • Be the primary strategic business partner to our sales VPs, owning our pipeline, forecasting, and strategic reporting for local leadership and suggesting to the business where you discover opportunities to optimise
  • Work closely with sales leadership on coverage models, quota and capacity planning, go-to-market segmentation, and coverage strategy, including territory design, growth analysis, and account activation strategy
  • Assist the sales strategy & leadership teams in identifying the key markets to grow into next, and where we should be increasing our investments
  • Work with and support various business partners in EMEA (e.g. channel, marketing) to analyse business needs, elicit requirements and design solutions that enable the business to achieve its objectives, improve user experience, and drive adoption
  • Drive operational excellence in EMEA by identifying, establishing, and maintaining scalable, repeatable process improvements. Document essential processes and engagement rules, and work with local Sales Enablement to disseminate that information and help enforce those processes
  • Work with our global counterparts to ensure our sales policies reflect the current go-to-market strategies, work with our local business partners to define and manage any local nuances, and be our subject matter expert, ensuring updates are shared with and understood by your local business partners

Salary benchmarks

Our take

Okta started off as an identity company where organisations, large and small, could tap into the company to have a single sign-on interface to access all cloud applications now centralised. Okta has since expanded to provide identity management at the device as well as the server level.

The new approach towards network security is increasingly based on identification and authentication, and Okta is on track to become the go-to vendor in the space. They aim to do so by developing products that enable people to access applications and other tools more smoothly and securely than ever before.

Okta has taken strides towards expansion through significant employee growth and shuffling executive leadership. The company has also made lateral moves such as tackling governance concerns, opening up new paths for revenue.

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Freddie

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Insights

Top investors

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back within 2 weeks

19% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Sep 2015

$75m

SERIES F

Jun 2014

$75m

SERIES E

Total funding: $229.3m

Company benefits

  • Work from home opportunities
  • Health + Wellness
  • Financial Benefits
  • Pay + Incentives
  • Time Off
  • Everyday Living
  • Resources

Company values

  • Love our customers
  • Never stop innovating
  • Act with integrity
  • Be transparent
  • Empower our people

Company HQ

The East Cut, San Francisco, CA

Founders

VP of Development at Salesforce.com and has nearly a decade of experience in various engineering and leadership roles at PeopleSoft.

Frederic Kerrest

(Vice Chairman)

Worked in Sales and Business Development at Salesforce.com, and previously co-founded high-tech consulting firm Meridian Global Solutions.


People progressing

Joined as Senior Manager, Recruiting EMEA and promoted to Director, Recruiting EMEA after 3 years. Promoted again to Senior Director, Recruiting EMEA after another 3 years.

Diversity & Inclusion at Okta

  • Workforce: We believe in recruiting diverse talent to create balanced teams
  • Workplace: We support and empower employees to be authentic and grow through open conversations and education
  • Marketplace: We go to market and sell to diverse audiences

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