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Edtech.com's Summary
McGraw Hill LLC. is hiring a Sales Operations Analyst to join their Higher Education Strategy & Operations Team. This role involves contributing to sales analytics, systems optimization, and go-to-market initiatives by providing data, reporting, and insights to support a large sales and customer success organization. The position requires collaboration across multiple teams and the ability to work remotely with occasional travel.
Highlights
- Develop and maintain sales reports, dashboards, and analytics to support strategic decision-making.
- Enhance reporting tools used by sales representatives and managers for pipeline and territory insights.
- Drive increased usage and impact of existing sales reports by improving accessibility and addressing obstacles.
- Collaborate individually and with cross-functional teams including sales leadership and CRM.
- Conduct market research on AI and emerging sales enablement technologies such as Salesforce.
- Support evaluation and adoption of new sales tools through requirements gathering and pilot testing.
- Assist with go-to-market operations, including pipeline management, territory planning, sales workflows, and business planning.
- Requires a Bachelor's degree preferably in a quantitative or systems field and 3-5 years experience in analytics-centered roles like sales operations or consulting.
- Proficiency with Excel is required; familiarity with PowerBI/Tableau, SQL, and data analysis tools is preferred.
- Salary range is $80,000 to $98,000 annually, with variation based on knowledge, skills, experience, and location.
Sales Operations Analyst Full Description
Overview
Build the Future
Could your analytical thinking build the future? We're currently seeking a Sales Operations Analyst to join our Higher Education Strategy & Operations Team.
How can you make an impact?
The Sales Operations Analyst is a key contributor to the effectiveness and evolution of our Higher Education business unit's go-to-market strategy and operation. Reporting to the VP of Strategic Sales Operations and collaborating closely with Sales, Strategy, and other cross-functional stakeholders, this role helps ensure the organization has the data, reporting, insights, systems, and tools needed to drive informed decision-making, improve commercial operations, and support the effectiveness of a large, complex sales and customer success organization, consisting of hundreds of sales representatives and dozens of managers.
This role combines analytics, research, operational problem-solving, and project support. You will support initiatives related to sales reporting and pipeline insights, process improvement, sales tools and systems optimization, emerging technologies and AI-enabled capabilities, and broader go-to-market initiatives across the organization. The ideal candidate is highly analytical, detail-oriented, collaborative, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment that requires both strategic thinking and strong execution.
This role works remotely from a home office and is open to permanent residents of the United States. Travel for on-campus visits, team meetings and events is required an average of once or twice a quarter.
What you will be doing:
Sales Analytics & Insights: strengthen reporting, analytics, and business insights to guide decision-making and improve commercial performance
- Develop new reports, dashboards, and analyses to address strategic questions posed by Sales and Strategy leadership
- Maintain and enhance reporting used by sales reps and managers to monitor pipeline health, territory performance, and key trends
- Increase usage and impact of existing reports by improving discoverability for the Sales Team, analyze usage and feedback, and addressing blockers and friction
- Be able to work alone and collaborate closely with other analysts, leadership, and other stakeholders
Sales Systems & Tools: Support the evaluation, optimization, and adoption of sales systems and tools to improve efficiency and sales effectiveness
- Conduct ongoing market research on the state of AI in sales enablement, looking for new features and tools from established and emerging providers (ex: Salesforce).
- Support the evaluation of new tools and capabilities through requirements gathering, workflow mapping, pilot testing, feedback, and performance assessment with sales reps/managers
- Partner with CRM team to evaluate usage patterns across existing sales systems and tools to identify optimization opportunities, gaps, and other needs
Go-To-Market Operations & Strategic Initiatives: Support key initiatives that improve commercial execution, operational effectiveness, and GTM performance
- Support the execution of new strategic initiatives across Sales Strategy & Operations through research, analysis, reporting, and cross-functional coordination
- Assist with research or process improvement efforts related to pipeline management, territory planning, sales workflows, or other similar areas
- Contribute the continuous improvement and execution of business planning efforts across the sales and customer success organizations
We're looking for someone with:
- Bachelor's degree (preferably in a quantitative or systems-oriented field) or equivalent experience
- 3-5 years of experience in an analytics-centered role (e.g., sales operations, analytics, business operations, strategy, consulting)
- Experience working in fast-paced environments with changing priorities and ambiguity
- Demonstrated ownership and leadership of multiple projects or workstreams, contributing to meaningful business outcomes
- Experience specifically in a sales operations role is a bonus
- Experience in consulting, higher education industry, or education technology is a bonus
- Analytical, proficient at examining quantitative and qualitative data in multiple ways to generate valued insights
- Proficient with Excel and, preferably, PowerBI/Tableau, SQL, and other data analysis tools
- Strong research support skills, proficient at cleaning, organizing, and synthesizing complex data sets
Why work for us?
At McGraw Hill, you will be empowered to make a real impact on a global scale. Every day your individual efforts contribute to the lives of millions.
The pay range for this position is between $80,000 - 98,000 annually, however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. Click here to learn more about our benefit offerings.
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