Sales Operations Intern

at SolarWinds (View all jobs)

Austin, Texas

Req ID: 100065

At SolarWinds, we’re a people-first company. Our purpose is to enrich the lives of the people we serve—including our employees, customers, shareholders, Partners, and communities. Join us in our mission to help customers accelerate business transformation with simple, powerful, and secure solutions.

The ideal candidate thrives in an innovative, fast-paced environment and is collaborative, accountable, ready, and empathetic. We’re looking for individuals who believe they can accomplish more as a team and create lasting growth for themselves and others. We hire based on attitude, competency, and commitment. Solarians are ready to advance our world-class solutions in a fast-paced environment and accept the challenge to lead with purpose. If you’re looking to build your career with an exceptional team, you’ve come to the right place. Join SolarWinds and grow with us!

Your Impact:

  • Support Sales with process creation, standardization, automation, and improvements and gather feedback from top performers
    • Contact top performers in sales org to gather feedback on time spent across ‘Non-Sales Activity’ (NSA) and brainstorm how to minimize selling obstacles and administrative work
    • Identify Sales Play SMEs by Region to create Sales Play SME Group
    • Identify top ‘wins’ across Sales Plays to spotlight in upcoming communications, All Hands/ other events
  • Support Sales with best practices to work Sales Plays, create customer relationships, access relevant sales assets
    • Help to host Sales Play Office Hours, engage with sales teams, get feedback on Sales Plays
    • Identify topics to include in Quota Crusher Best Practice sharing (Sales Plays, SFDC hygiene, Tools Optimization)
    • Teach sales management how to gather business insights from Sales Play reporting and how to manage their teams’ ongoing execution of Sales Plays
    • Assist in managing key landing sites for sales content: One-Stop-Shop (sales assets), Sales Play site (details and assets for specific, quarterly Sales Plays), Tools Optimization site
  • Support Sales with Tools Optimization
    • Identify best practices by Rep Role to leverage sales tools (LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Outreach, ZoomInfo, SFDC)
    • Manage licenses, usage of, and engagement with LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Sales
    • Manage creation of sales enablement videos for on-demand, self-service for LinkedIn Sales Navigator and other key sales tools
    • Identify SMEs for primary sales tools by Region to create Tools Optimization SME Group
  • Collaborate with Sales Enablement and PMMs to ensure sales enablement sessions and related sales assets are created/ published for Sales as needed
    • Identify gaps in sales skills, sales assets by product/ solution and verify action plans are in place to address
    • Program Manage aspects of this including organization of meetings, follow up activities, and providing updates

Your Experience:

  • Fast learner with strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a high attention to detail along with an interest in Organizational Learning, Sales, and Project Management
  • Comfortable working with Microsoft Office (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint); familiarity with Asana is a plus, but not required; higher skillset in Excel is also a big plus, but not required
  • Familiarity with Salesforce Lightning and related reporting, dashboards is a huge plus
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to maintain strict confidentiality while working with sensitive information
  • Team player; works efficiently and can be flexible and switch gears quickly if projects need to be set aside for high priority escalations and urgent matters

SolarWinds is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. SolarWinds will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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