Readiness Program Manager (Nashville, TN)In this role, you have the opportunity to serve as a key member of the Compensation and Readiness Strategy Team providing leadership around planning, project management, initiative development and execution of Sales Readiness. This person will serve as a key conduit for the implementation of new Readiness activities by enabling effective communications, training, and stakeholder management. Also, this individual will maintain a broad perspective around business strategies, IT platform / application evolution and evolving business requirements to enable effective roadmap review / management to support evolving business needs directly involving readiness planning, execution, and optimization.This position is a strategic enabler to executing our future strategy and the transformation needed to support it, which will require close engagement with the connected planning solution developers and commissions analysts to create future state capabilities, applications, and models.Your role:
Providing planning leadership and oversight to manage the project plans, requirements development, build cycles, UAT, and migration to production for Sales Readiness execution.
Serving as a project manager and lead stakeholder alignment sessions to gather new business requirements
Leading requirements gathering engagements –Identifying SME/ user business requirements (assess current state if relevant) – support user story development
Building and leading project teams to drive key development initiatives and implementation through and with the Anaplan platform
Developing detailed and interdependent project plans and schedules to manage work product
Managing all project plans / timelines and provide visibility and reporting as needed
Assessing risk points and develop mitigation plans
Serving as the leader for engaging with cross-functional resources including operations, finance, IT and other key stakeholders to deliver against requirements and maximize value (productivity gains, TAT, etc.)
Driving planning and execution for transformation strategies as necessary including support, training, communication etc.
Supporting strategic road map development through initiative identification, leadership dialog, business case creation for review and approval with appropriate stakeholders (sales and operations leadership, IT, HR, Finance)
Participating in and manage outcomes from deep dive planning / kaizen forums where necessary to solution / optimize key areas Build and maintain short- and long-term planning roadmap Look for optimization points around key infrastructure points including Anaplan, SF.com, Einstein, ClickView etc.
Serving as the operational lead for North America Sales Readiness development and execution
Understanding evolving sales strategy and business landscape
Building dialogue across finance, operations, sales, and other roles to develop operational plans for E2E Sales readiness
Driving sizing, risk assessment and solutioning around GTM strategy implementation
You're the right fit if:
Bachelor’s Degree required, or an equivalent combined experience/education in the areas of: Information Technology and/or Program/Project Management, ideal
Strong knowledge around sales planning processes – quota deployment, territory planning, compensation operations, resource planning. Forecasting, funnel, performance management
Proven track record around program / project management and/or IT delivery
Ability to lead cross-functional teams
Ability to operate in a complex matrixed organization
Success around delivery and launch of new applications / platforms to sales / operations
Strong communication / presentation skills
Ability to drive transformation and lead change integration
Daily management
Leadership around kaizen / optimization process work
Strategic thinking around planning
Knowledge of Anaplan, Salesforce.com (SFDC), SAP, Einstein, and ClickView
You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position.
Additional Information
US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa, now or in the future.
Company relocation benefits will not be provided for this position. For this position, you mustreside in or within commuting distance toNashville, TN .
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