Business Operations Analyst (Regular/Senior) - Remote

Would you like to partner with Sales management teams across EMEA?

Would you enjoy making an impact on Akamai's sales strategy, performance and processes?

Join our impactful operations team!

Akamai's Sales Operations team is collaborative, and results-orientated. Partnering with our top-notch sales and go-to-market teams, we enable and enhance their execution and productivity.
We facilitate strategic planning and sales services. Our focus is on developing our sales team and fostering a growth culture.

Partner with the best

You'll support our EMEA Sales organization by providing strategic direction for maximizing sales operations effectiveness and efficiency. You'll work directly with sales and sales operations leadership across our EMEA teams. You'll also work with Finance, Services, and Marketing, to facilitate collaboration cross-functionally and streamline processes.

As a Business Operations Analyst Senior, you will be responsible for:

• Leading sales reporting and analytics that provide timely insights
• Leading Sales forecast calls, managing weekly / monthly / quarterly sales operation cadence to support Sales Management
• Partnering with sales leaders to set go-to-market strategies, territory design, sales targets and quotas through enhanced analytics
• Conducting additional ad hoc analysis, ensuring compliance related to use of sales tools
• Leveraging sales tools (e.g. Salesforce) to perform analytics on deal commitments and pipeline
• Providing first tier support for queries related to sales process, forecasting, tools, reporting and commissions

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have relevant professional experience in business analysis
• Possess effective analytical and quantitative capabilities with an ability to provide data-backed analysis
• Have end user experience with a CRM tool; e.g. Salesforce.com
• Have experience in a finance or operations role interfacing with sales teams
• Have PowerPoint skills required for managing and presenting data to an executive audience
• Demonstrate effective business-partnering skills, particularly with senior sales management
• Be a self-starter with the ability to self-motivate in a fast paced, deadline driven environment

Work in a way that works for you

FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.

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At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.

Working for you

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavors

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

About us

Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.

Join us

Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!

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