Manager, Sales Strategy & Planning

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Hiring Remotely in United States
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123K-160K Annually
Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Hardware • Information Technology • Sales • Software • Transportation
Unlock the potential of the physical economy.
The Role

Who we are:

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet related spend in a single system. Combined with industry leading AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.

Motive serves more than 100,000 customers – from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses – across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector.

Visit gomotive.com to learn more.

About the Role:

The Strategy & Operations team at Motive is a high-impact, cross-functional group focused on shaping go-to-market strategy, launching new products, and driving growth across our core businesses. We thrive on solving complex problems across sales, marketing, and customer success, and partner closely with teams to scale efficiently. With a low-ego, highly motivated mindset, we tackle challenges like launching new channels, testing new GTM motions, and using data to inform product and business strategy

What You'll Do:
  • Build and Optimize - Design, build, and manage comprehensive sales capacity models that forecast staffing needs based on sales targets, historical performance, ramp times, attrition rates, recruiting capacity, and TAM.
  • Design and Scale - Create mission critical reports and presentations for sales leadership on capacity utilization, hiring progress, Market penetration, and Recruiting Funnel.
  • Drive Cross-Functional Collaboration - Act as the nexus between Finance, Sales, Recruiting and Enablement to ensure alignment when reporting key metrics and actual team performance
  • Set the Standard - Lead by example creating exemplary work products and never saying “that’s not my job” when presented with a problem. You have a bias for action and get stuff done
What We're Looking For:
  • 6+ years of relevant experience in Sales Operations, Business Intelligence, or FP&A; Bachelor's degree required
  • Experience with sales planning/forecasting in a fast growing SaaS company strong preferred 
  • Experience developing sales capacity models to forecast headcount needs using inputs such as sales targets, performance trends, ramp, attrition, recruiter bandwidth, and TAM.
  • Familiarity with Capacity planning tools such as Pigment
  • Exceptional spreadsheet / data management skills, SQL proficiency preferred
  • Intellectual curiosity supported by exceptional analytical skill and work ethic
  • Advanced communication, presentation, and organization skills
  • Experience working on cross-functional projects with various stakeholders and a demonstrated expertise in managing such projects
  • Comfortable with ambiguous environments under tight and unpredictable timelines

Pay Transparency
Your compensation may be based on several factors, including education, work experience, and certifications. For certain roles, total compensation may include restricted stock units. Motive offers benefits including health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits, paid time off, sick time off, short term and long term disability coverage, life insurance as well as 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Learn more about our benefits by visiting Motive Perks & Benefits.
The compensation range for this position will depend on where you reside. For this role, the compensation range is:

United States
$123,000$160,000 USD

Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of Motive's core values. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. 

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The applicant must be authorized to receive and access those commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations. It is Motive's policy to require that employees be authorized to receive access to Motive products and technology. 

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
4,000 Employees
Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

Motive builds technology to improve the safety, productivity, and profitability of businesses that power the physical economy. The Motive Automated Operations Platform combines IoT hardware with AI-powered applications to automate vehicle and equipment tracking, driver safety, compliance, maintenance, spend management, and more. Motive serves more than 120,000 businesses, across a wide range of industries including trucking and logistics, construction, oil and gas, food and beverage, field service, agriculture, passenger transit, and delivery. Visit gomotive.com to learn more.

Why Work With Us

We work hard, with humility and we see our efforts rewarded in tangible ways every day. At Motive, you’ll have the chance to make a difference for the drivers who keep our world moving. We trust each other to do great work because together we can achieve collective goals that reach beyond the physical economy.

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