Director, Marketing Strategy & Operations
Job Category: Operations
About Salesforce
We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.
Salesforce’s Global Field Marketing (GFM) organization is a fast-evolving team at the forefront of this mission. We currently have an opening for an experienced Director, Marketing Strategy & Operations to join GFM’s Operations team. This team provides strategic resource allocation decision support to the GFM Executive Vice President (EVP) by helping to optimize the allocation of existing resources worldwide to align with organizational priorities.
Responsibilities
- Build Marketing Spend and Workforce Planning Functions: Ensure that marketing leaders are supported on all planning and forecasting motions by delivering a consistent set of budget management tools, enablement and reporting.
- Resource Allocation: Lead strategic resource allocation conversations across GFM and prepare for Salesforce CMO and GFM leadership discussions.
- Business and Finance Partnership: Provide insights to the business and Finance leadership regarding the current resource landscape and recommend levers to drive operational leverage through resource prioritization and allocation.
- Decision Support: Apply strategic and systems thinking into resource planning to improve Return On Investment, including scenario and sensitivity analyses.
- Headcount Benchmarking: Operationalize Key Performance Indicators related to headcount efficiency and proactively recommend a course of action where needed.
- Mentor and Teacher: Act as a trusted advisor to marketing leaders across the organization, ensuring clear lines of communication are maintained and encouraging a culture of new ideas.
Experience
- Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 8+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field.
- OR Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 4+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field OR equivalent experience.
- Prior experience in team leadership and motivating and inspiring a team.
Preferred Qualifications
- 8+ years of financial analysis experience, preferably in a high-tech company.
- Revenue Planning and/or Consulting experience is a plus.
- Proven communication and presentation skills.
- Demonstrated experience in developing sophisticated financial models and scenario analysis.
- Ability to influence and impact without authority, operate in ambiguity, and tackle difficult problems.
- Interpersonal and cross-group collaboration skills.
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Salesforce is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.
For Washington-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $159,000 to $253,600. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Salesforce welcomes all.
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