Sales Operations Specialist

Job Description
Responsibilities, skills, and knowledge may be representative, but not all-inclusive of those commonly associated with the position.
Provide hands on analysis and project management of contract research, creation of price quotes, business approvals, and order requests for varying levels of deal size and complexity.
Serve as a trusted advisor to field sales on pricing, product configuration, and business terms to support the sales effort.
Ensure compliance with published sales and business approval policies.
Be a sales advocate and partner to internal organizations to understand complex sales issues
Meet or exceed published service level agreements for deal turnaround time, customer confirmations, etc.
Build strong productive relationships and feedback loops with the executive team, and operations teams to drive deal efficiency and sales representative satisfaction with the contracting process best practices
Project-manage the entire tracking of required customer information related to contracts, version support, configuration, etc.
Maintain knowledge of company and its offerings and understand all new initiatives that impact proposal responses.
Utilize analysis on key sales performance metrics, data modeling techniques and advanced Excel skills to create models, charts, and graphs that effectively communicate complex data sets to the company.
Serves as subject matter expert in the area of sales analysis and reporting. 
Participates in high level business initiatives to assist with all levels of metric reporting.
Examine inconsistencies in the data and conduct research to determine the best course of action and communicate findings with sales team.
Identify opportunities to use data to develop new strategies and improve business performance as it relates to sales performance. 
Works cross functionally to provide appropriate analysis on demand trends and establishes statistical methods that assist in the forecasting of future demand.
Creation, administration, and execution of annual pay plans for the company.
Other duties as assigned as company needs dictate.