Sales Strategy Planning and Operations Lead – EMEA

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Provide objective, data-driven insights that guide essential business decisions and create measurable impact.

• Highlight regional context and market subtleties to ensure last-mile execution awareness informs the Go-To-Market strategy.

• Collaborate with Sales leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to identify trends, uncover opportunities, and offer strategic recommendations that shape business direction and resource distribution.

• Advocate for the regional viewpoint in global discussions, supplying data-driven feedback on market dynamics and product opportunities to central teams.

• Regularly communicate and influence leadership by synthesizing insights into compelling narratives that present opportunities, risks, and strategic recommendations.

• Facilitate alignment between regional and global teams, ensuring strategies are rooted in local execution contexts.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 6 years of experience leading strategy and operations projects in a consulting setting, corporate strategy/operations team, quantitative field (such as investment banking, PE/VC), or a comparable tech company.

• Strong systems thinking ability with experience in automating workflows and utilizing AI tools to enhance efficiency and scalability.

• Proficient in SQL with experience in extracting and manipulating data from large and complex databases.

• Proven track record of leveraging data to address business challenges and produce actionable insights and recommendations.

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with proficiency in tackling complex and diverse business issues (commercial, operational, organizational).

• Experience in communicating with and influencing stakeholders at all organizational levels.

• Proven ability to deliver results in fast-paced environments by adjusting priorities, collaborating across teams, and effectively communicating trade-offs to stakeholders.

• Preferred: Experience in adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (such as risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality, and accuracy reviews).

• Preferred: Familiarity with data visualization tools (such as Tableau, Looker).

• Preferred: Experience in building and deploying AI-driven automation solutions to scale analytical workflows.

• Preferred: Background in the advertising, media, or technology sectors.

• Preferred: MBA or advanced degree in a quantitative discipline.

• Preferred: Experience working in or supporting EMEA markets with insights into regional business dynamics.

• Preferred: Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying up to date with emerging AI technologies.

• Preferred: Familiarity with Meta's advertising products and sales ecosystem.

• Preferred: Proven ability to integrate AI tools to optimize or redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements).

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary.

• Healthcare contribution.

• Inclusion in the company pension scheme.

• Work laptop and phone.

• 25 days of annual leave (pro-rata).

• Paid bank holidays.

• Potential for career progression for top performers.