Description

The Sales Compensation Strategy Senior Manager is a strategic business partner who leads worldwide incentive compensation strategy and the compensation design-to-deployment process for a specific business unit(s).

• A hybrid of traditional jobs in compensation, finance, sales operations, and strategic planning, this role is critical to supporting the explosive growth of the Salesforce sales teams

• Success in this role means:

  • Designing incentive compensation plans that are clear, measurable, cost-efficient, and effective.

  • Communicating compensation design and strategy effectively in executive level meetings and broader sales trainings - visually (in slides, email, and other material) and verbally (in live meetings)

  • Enablement project management across distribution and internal teams to deliiver G4G, sales survey and content on changes to the Incentive Compensation Plans

• Responsibilities range from strategic (developing compensation recommendations based on business objectives, influencing and building consensus among leaders) to operational (working across teams to ensure metrics can be tracked and systems updated so employees are paid accurately and on-time)

• The candidate should be familiar with how software companies go-to-market in order to align incentives with the responsibilities of different roles (e.g. sales development reps, account executives, industry specialists, product overlays, customer success, etc.)

• The best Sales Compensation Strategy Senior Managers have the ability to absorb strategic vision from leadership, synthesize, and apply that vision across all the various roles at the company

Key Responsibilities:

• Establish strong relationships with sales organization leadership and support teams to fully understand their needs and perspective

• Lead and improve upon the incentive compensation design-to-deployment process for specific business groups:

• identify strategic business objectives, assess success of current incentives, propose new incentive designs, influence leaders to align on outcomes, and persuasively explain new incentives to leaders and employees

• Project manage deployment solutions across multiple teams

• A different team will administer the plans and make updates to Salesforce's compensation systems. However, this role will develop a high level understanding of Salesforce's compensation systems so that systems capabilities are considered during the incentive design phase

• Have courageous and candid conversations with sales leaders to address their concerns and evaluate unique circumstances that fall outside current comp programs and policies (e.g., plan design exception requests)

• Design temporary incentives (e.g. “SPIFFs”) to support short term strategic priorities

• Work with Finance to predict the cost of incentive compensation programs and plan overall design strategy

• Manage Strategic Projects: You'll project manage large-scale global enablement projects from start to finish, ensuring key deadlines are met and stakeholders are aligned.

• Analyze and Optimize: Dive into the data to analyze the effectiveness of our compensation plans and enablement programs. You'll use your insights to recommend and implement improvements that directly impact sales performance.

• Facilitate Key Events: Take the lead in coordinating and facilitating major events like our annual GIC Summit, a critical training and alignment session for the upcoming year.

• Engage with Stakeholders: Collaborate with a wide range of business partners and leaders, preparing clear and compelling presentations to communicate project updates and key initiatives.

• Drive Surveys and Feedback: Coordinate and analyze the results of our global sales survey, using the feedback to inform future compensation strategies.

• Perform Ad-Hoc Analysis: Support the team with a variety of data analysis and operational tasks as needed, demonstrating your versatility and problem-solving skills.

Desired Skills/Experience:

• 7+ years of consulting, compensation, finance, or strategy & ops experience

• Advanced knowledge of incentive plan structures (quotas, accelerators, pay mix, and on-target earnings)

• Self-starter capable of independently driving projects to completion

• Exceptional problem solving skills: demonstrated ability to structure complex problems and develop solutions

• Expert presentation skills, especially related to building compelling slide presentations and presenting decisions to executive leadership

• Project management skills and ability to partner across functional areas (e.g., Sales, Finance, Operations, and HR)