Sales Strategy & Operations Manager, APAC
ABOUT THE ROLE:
In this position, you'll play a crucial role in shaping our go-to-market strategy and driving data-informed decision-making within the Japan/APAC region. This position sits at the intersection of sales, strategy, and operations, offering the opportunity to significantly impact Notion's growth trajectory. You'll work closely with sales leadership and cross-functional teams to optimize processes, deliver actionable insights, and support key strategic initiatives. You will report directly to the Head of Field Strategy & Operations.
WHAT YOU'LL ACHIEVE:
- Partner with Japan leadership team to define and drive strategy (e.g. territory mapping, long-term account planning, geographic expansion) and results for the region by conducting insightful analysis on local Japan markets and customers while providing support for other APAC priorities as needed.
- Support regional sales leaders and sales teams in achieving their goals by providing actionable insights and visibility to sales performance metrics
- Build reporting and presentations for Japan/APAC sales leadership to update on the state of the business, both up and across the organization
- Act as a partner to the Japan/APAC sales team, providing hands-on operational support to drive deals forward and advising with decision-making
- Enable smooth, efficient deal execution by supporting day-to-day deal operations, including opportunity hygiene, quote preparation, and coordination of approvals and internal handoffs, helping sellers navigate processes and remove friction throughout the deal lifecycle
- Partner with the GTM Systems team to continuously enhance our sales technology stack to provide both a best-in-class experience for our sellers and a robust sales data environment
- Work with cross-functional teams including Legal, Finance, Product, Marketing, etc. as the primary operational counterpart on behalf of the Japan/APAC sales org
- Maintain and embed global sales policies, processes, and procedures, driving discipline with regards to strategy execution
- Support global planning process locally, including target setting, capacity modeling, territory carving, etc.
- Surface on-the-ground observations and insights to global sales and RevOps leadership
SKILLS YOU'LL NEED TO BRING:
- 5+ years of strategy, operations, and analytics experience with a track record of driving growth - working in sales operations, preferably in a high-growth SaaS environment
- Expertise to quickly drill down into the business funnel for outbound and inbound sales motions, and how that connects to revenue
- Excellent analytical and quantitative modeling skills; ability to analyze and interpret data, provide actionable insights, and deliver measurable results
- Expert proficiency with core sales tools (e.g. Salesforce, Gong, Outreach, etc.) and best practices for sales data management
- Ability to apply AI-powered tools to accelerate analysis, uncover trends, and translate complex sales data into actionable business insights. Comfortable framing analytical questions, iterating on prompts, and validating AI-generated outputs with sound business judgment and rigorous data checks, while handling sensitive information responsibly
- Strong collaborator, works well with stakeholders, gains trust, enjoys working with people
- Demonstrates a senior presence and can convey complex information to executives clearly and concisely; can resolve tradeoffs. Effective communicator across levels and audiences
- Hands on and proactive, with a builders mentality.
- Maintaining high ownership mentality, demonstrated by developing projects of >6-12 months length
- Notion power user or desire to learn -- prior Notion experience is not required, but you have the ability and desire to become a pro
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