Strategy and Execution Manager

Full Time
London, UK
1 month ago

SLSQ126R70

The Sales Strategy team works directly with Databricks’ Sales Leadership team to accelerate growth. Our team is focused on empowering our stakeholders and senior leadership with data-driven insights & tools to shape the GTM strategy & drive operational scale in an extremely high-growth environment. 

We are looking for a Sales Strategy Manager to serve as the business partner for the Emerging Enterprise leadership team under the EMEA Business Unit. This is a critical and visible position to shape the GTM Strategy of one of the fastest-growing regions  at Databricks. 

In this role, you will conduct in-depth analyses on the business, build scalable tools for stakeholders, and own operational cadences for the Emerging Enterprise team. Candidates must be able to deal with the day to day operational requirements whilst never losing sight of the long term strategy & objectives. 

Alongside supporting the Emerging Enterprise EMEA team, you will also be involved in EMEA & global level  initiatives. This is a core part of the role to help ensure we maintain collaboration across the various EMEA regions and share best practices. 

The ideal candidate is a self-starter with endless curiosity who can work cross-functionally to tackle complex problems end-to-end. We are looking for someone who is solution oriented and thrives in diving deep into ambiguous data sets to derive recommendations to drive business decisions. 

The impact you will have:

  • Directly serve as the Strategy partner for the VP of Emerging Enterprise & their leadership team 
  • Independently own analysis with large datasets to gather insights & guide investment and growth
  • Build scalable tools (dashboards, scorecards, data packs) for Central leadership  
  • Own all reporting, forecasting, territory planning, and quota/productivity modeling
  • Work cross-functionally and globally with internal stakeholders to resolve issues, understand business and data challenges, identify optimization opportunities, and respond to escalation and exception requests

What we look for:

  • Strong Excel skills required. Salesforce, SQL, and/or Tableau experience preferred. 
  • You have exceptional problem solving and analytical skills. You are technical and fluent in working with large datasets. 
  • You have the ability to work independently in a fast paced environment
  • You have a “get it done” attitude and want to build something that lasts. Not only do you have the ability and the desire to architect the high level strategy, you want to operationalize it and have high attention to detail
  • You excel in a collaborative environment and have a high degree of honesty, integrity and sound judgment. You translate team member needs into clear tasks and deliverables for contributors. You work through dependencies, bottlenecks, and tradeoffs with ease
  • You have excellent spoken and written communication & presentation skills.
  • You have 6+ years experience in sales strategy, management consulting, investment banking, and/or business development.

About Databricks

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.BenefitsAt Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region, please visit https://www.mybenefitsnow.com/databricks. 

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