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Responsibilities:
- Evaluate and oversee the M&A lifecycle from due diligence, integration plan, interim operations, and full integration across Sales and Post Sales, partnering cross-functionally to set the vision and path for M&A to support the next phase of Salesforce’s growth.
- Establish and implement interim operations required to support the deal thesis and field in the first 6-12 months after close, including account mapping, opportunity mirroring, lead pass, etc, working cross-functionally to draft requirements and manage through go-live
- Build trusted relationships with executives across the Sales and Post Sales, drive critical outcomes across a multi-product, multi-billion dollar revenue acquisition portfolio, including aligning on go-to-market true north, and key priorities.
- Apply sound business rationale, distill key priorities, and influence cross-functionally at all levels of the Sales, Professional Services, Success, Corporate Development, Product, and extended GTM organization to move the business forward.
- Oversee the active acquisition portfolio for Sales and Post Sales across all phases of the acquisition lifecycle globally, including:
- Partnering with Corporate Development to provide GTM perspective and alignment during detailed diligence of potential acquisition targets
- Leading GTM diligence for Sales and Post Sales; specifically driving alignment across acquisition revenue, bookings and resulting operating model assumptions
- Aligning and bringing GTM perspective across GTM functions, Deal Executive Sponsor, and Corp Dev on distribution operating plan assumptions and integration plan to achieve acquisition goals
- Partnering across Sales, Success, Professional Services, Finance, Product, Enablement, and extended GTM organizations to define the end-to-end GTM operating plan for each acquired company
- Partnering with Sales, Professional Services, and Success leaders to drive achievement of GTM Operating Plan and integration goals
Basic Requirements
- BS/BA degree or equivalent experience. MBA preferred.
- 6+ years of experience in a strategy and/or M&A capacity
- Experience with Salesforce CRM and lead to cash process
- Proficient with SQL, Snowflake and Tableau
- Experience in roles that required driving business outcomes, often cross-functionally, across a multi-product portfolio in either an M&A, Strategy or Operations capacity
- Proven success in dealing with senior business executives at all levels with utmost confidentiality. Demonstrates high EQ, tact, diplomacy, and self-awareness.
- Proven ability to have courageous, difficult discussions, influence and negotiate, navigate productively through conflict, and lead cross-functionally at peer level and above to drive the business forward.
- Proven track record of demonstrating grit in the face of challenges and adversity, and ability to effectively lead cross-functional teams through a high degree of movement and change.
- Proven track record in successfully setting a vision, prioritizing, cutting through noise, and organizing teams so they effectively execute through ambiguity and achieve high-quality, repeatable, consistent results.
- Strong understanding of GTM across Sales, Professional Services, and Success
Preferred Requirements
- Strong preference for individuals who have worked on corporate M&A and corporate strategic planning in top consumer Internet and/or SaaS companies
- Solid understanding of and work history in the SaaS and/or broader technology space
- Exceptional problem-solving and communication skills
- Is comfortable working from limited information, continuously seeks to improve and standardize processes, systems, and demonstrates a strong bias towards building systems, processes, tools, that scale.
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Posting Statement
For Colorado-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $115,600 to $159,000. For Washington-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $127,200 to $174,900. For Illinois based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $127,200 to $174,900. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: