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Role
Splunk is seeking an analytical, strategic, and self-motivated Sales Insights Analyst for its Global Sales Operations Team. This role is critical to sales forecasting, planning, and providing insights for various leadership stakeholders
The successful candidate will be an analytical rock-star that can balance operations with strategy and planning and is not afraid to ask difficult questions and proactively seek the answers for them. One will also be able to analyze large quantities of data, quickly synthesize the value-add recommendations and confidently present to our senior leadership team. Last but not least, a rolling up your sleeves attitude is very important – Splunk is a very lean and entrepreneurial company.

Responsibilities:

• Design and facilitate successful implementation and adoption of new processes and execution strategies
• Champion and drive change management initiatives to support Splunk’s continued subscription model evolution within Cisco, and achieve overall corporate objectives
• Define, manage, and provide insights on key performance metrics
• Use a data driven approach to draw out business insights that help sales leadership improve the performance of their teams
• Serve as a sales data, metrics, and analytics subject matter expert
• Collaborate with teams cross-functionally to drive operational excellence and continuous improvement
• Analyze the health of the business and interpret key performance metrics
• Support the day-to-day business needs of the sales organization – execute cadence around forecasting and pipeline analysis, account management, etc.

Requirements

• 5 to 7 years of experience in management consulting or an operations role in another technology company
• Must possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong command of SQL, and data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau)
• Experience with Salesforce, Snowflake, Anaplan and other related business intelligence applications
• Work effectively in an unstructured environment requiring new perspectives and creative approaches, and with multiple competing deadlines. Strong work ethic
• Always focused on doing what’s right for the business. High energy and contagious enthusiasm. Willing to take on the tough projects and challenges to support growth of the business
• Ability to be highly productive with minimal oversight from senior management
• Able to speak in front of senior audiences as well as write clearly, concisely, and compellingly

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate’s hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.
U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long -term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.
Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter. Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.
Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows: .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota; 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%; 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.
For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid

• Design and facilitate successful implementation and adoption of new processes and execution strategies
• Champion and drive change management initiatives to support Splunk’s continued subscription model evolution within Cisco, and achieve overall corporate objectives
• Define, manage, and provide insights on key performance metrics
• Use a data driven approach to draw out business insights that help sales leadership improve the performance of their teams
• Serve as a sales data, metrics, and analytics subject matter expert
• Collaborate with teams cross-functionally to drive operational excellence and continuous improvement
• Analyze the health of the business and interpret key performance metrics
• Support the day-to-day business needs of the sales organization – execute cadence around forecasting and pipeline analysis, account management, etc