Manager, Smc Sales Apac

Snap Inc is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together. The Company’s three core products are Snapchat, a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world; Lens Studio, an augmented reality platform that powers AR across Snapchat and other services; and its AR glasses, Spectacles.

We’re looking for a _data-driven _Manager of Small and Medium Customer Sales in APAC. This role will take on the responsibility of launching our APAC outsourced sales team from the ground up and will simultaneously manage a team of Account Executives that service customers based in India and Australia. This role will be responsible for the delivery of operational goals such as productivity metrics and revenue targets. The Snap sales team is focused on helping advertisers to scale using our advertising solutions to grow their own business.

What you’ll do:

- Launch APAC Sales team, ensuring all AMs are onboarded, trained, and meeting operational metrics within 60 days via our vendor partner.
- Evaluate and analyze vendor team performance on metrics that matter and work closely with the vendor management team to drive process improvements and enhance operational efficiencies.
- Understand APAC market nuances and adapt our sales strategies to best fit the needs of our customers.
- Manage a team of Snap Account Executives that are based in region and service clients in our Medium Customer segment. Ensure that the team is hitting sales targets, following processes, and leveraging sales best practices.
- Troubleshoot issues across the sales team by leveraging cross functional relationships.
- Contribute to vendor location strategy and capacity planning.
- Up to 30% travel.
- Act as an advocate for your vendor(s) and market (APAC) internally, highlighting the key needs and driving strategic initiatives across functions (product, platform, narrative, etc.).
- Act as a liaison between the vendor team and relevant internal teams to bring in the vendor team’s inputs for a feedback loop with product, marketing, operations and overall global business management. Give voice to user/advertiser impacting issues.
- Strong understanding of the data inputs required to track sales funnels and how to translate data into usable insights for sales managers and to better inform the overall sales strategy.
- Work closely with the Vendor management team to drive process improvements and enhance operational efficiencies.
- Work closely with a data science team to understand performance and test new hypotheses.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Experience running a sales or service operation through a vendor partner, communicating across multiple teams and levels.
- Experience managing an internal team, coaching for high performance, and delivering actionable feedback.
- Detail oriented, rigorous task management across multiple time zones and levels of support.
- Experience working in the tech, media or digital advertising industry as an operations professional with a background in SMB sales and/or high-volume sales.
- Knowledge of Salesforce CRM and customization, reporting and account management
- Experience partnering and delivering on projects working with a diverse set of contributors and stakeholders.
- Strong understanding of the data inputs required to track sales funnels and how to translate data into usable insights for sales managers and to better inform the overall sales strategy.
- Comfort with making decisions based on data.

Minimum qualifications:

- 8+ years of work experience including in technology sales and/or vendor management.
- Experience managing a vendor relationship and sales operations through a vendor partner.
- SAAS or Digital Marketing product knowledge. Competency with self-serve platforms is a plus.

Preferred qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in a business or related field with an understanding of digital marketing and an emphasis on mobile or equivalent experience in a given field.
- Expertise with Salesforce CRM (Sales Cloud, Einstein Analytics, Pardot)
- Excellent problem-solving, structuring, analyzing, and strategy skills with ability to translate analysis into actionable plans.
- Track record of success when educating large sales teams on operational processes.
- Ability to communicate effectively as a change agent, influencing leadership, product, marketing, and team members to take new actions and shift the daily behaviors of a team

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