Specialist, Global Sales Strategy & Operations

Specialist, Global Sales Strategy & Operations  

About the Company:

Perion is a global advertising technology company delivering solutions to the biggest brands, agencies and publishers around the globe across Search, Social media, Display, Video, CTV, and Programmatic DOOH. With our unique data-driven AI/ML based technologies, we deliver and optimize hundreds of terabytes of data and billions of events per day. We’re working with dozens of sources to provide a superior experience across screens and platforms, including mobile, video, social and native.

About the Role:

This is a foundational, high-impact role within the Global Sales Strategy & Operations function. Your purpose is to provide the analytical engine that empowers the Global Perion Sales organization to reach its full potential and exceed business objectives. Reporting to the Global Sales Strategy & Operations leader, you will serve as a data catalyst, ensuring our sales leadership has the visibility and insights needed to excel in the present while architecting a more efficient future. You will be working closely with our Finance partners to ensure effective and accurate sales performance reporting, high-quality and data-driven decision making and fact-based sales planning. This role is remote-first but requires alignment with the EST time zone.

What You’ll Do

Support Sales Planning & Strategy 

• Drive high-quality data inputs (internal and external) for sales planning activities, including annual sales strategies and strategic account planning.
• Support data-based global resource allocation and help implement client-level tiering and associated service level agreements.
• Structure and maintain cross-functionally used Client Named Account Lists.

Enable executive decision making

• Conduct deep-dive analyses into specific business challenges, translating complex data into clear, strategic recommendations.
• Prepare actionable insights and visualizations for senior sales & business executives to discuss revenue health, pipeline activity, and metric adoption.

Drive unified & high-quality sales performance reporting

• Design, improve and manage unified sales performance reporting to provide executive and team-wide visibility on goals.
• Co-drive design and implementation of self-service Business Health Dashboards to democratize data access for the sales team.
• Closely collaborate with the finance department to provide "the sales PoV" for financial performance KPIs and reporting drilldowns.
• Help establish, professionalize and maintain strong pipeline management and improve forecasting accuracy. 

What You Bring

Required

• BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of experience in media analytics, advertising sales, digital media & marketing, consulting or financial analysis.
• Proficiency in GSuite, SQL & Tableau.
• Practical experience managing data within CRM systems (ideally Salesforce).
• Excellent analytical problem solving and project management skills, including experience in executing complex operational initiatives. 
• Demonstrated ability to partner with and influence a diverse group of stakeholders.
• Experience or interest in Strategy & Operations, Account Management and Analytics.

Preferred

• Understanding of the Digital Marketing and Ad Tech ecosystem.
• Experience with data warehousing and unification during post-merger integrations.
• Experience in developing complex analytical models in spreadsheet and presentation software (e.g., marketing & statistical analysis, workdriver models, business cases).
• Experience with Python.   

Perion is committed to building a company whose staff reflects the true diversity of our community. Our employees are hired, promoted, and rewarded on the basis of talent, performance, dedication and results. We embrace our diversity and are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer that welcomes all candidates without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, partnership status, ancestry, disability or veteran status.