Job Description

YOUR CAREER

The Americas Sales Operations Intern - a trusted business partner for our Americas Sales Operations Leader.   You have strong interest in providing support to our field sales and operations teams.  You will assist the sales operations leaders with all things related to go-to-market operations support, including but not limited to data cleansing, sales planning with analytical acumen, strategic thinking, and the ability to support and work collaboratively with  sales managers and cross-functional teams.  You will assist with various operations cadences, forecasting, and business reviews, and daily tactical support.

YOUR IMPACT

• Assist field sales operations leaders  in all facets of running the business, including:
• Data review and data cleansing - including cleanup of accounts and opportunities in SFDC
• Processing account change requests on behalf of the sales teams and sales operations leaders
• Special projects around leaning in and analyzing, assessing, and making recommendations for go to market alignment
• Identify key markets with high-potential for spend based on Total Addressable Market (TAM)  where we could double-down with incremental resources
• Entering new hires, promotions and transfers into systems, ensuring system access is available at start
• Convert raw data into well-presented and useful business information that drives business decisions
• Create presentations in Google slides to present findings on various projects
• Assist field operations lead with quarterly business reviews, tracking down and consolidating results, building slides to present results, ensuring slides represent actual results from field teams assigned to support
• Create and update documentation of operation processes such as , sales onboarding process, Field Operations FAQs, Reporting Indexes, internal email alias list, and other special projects as assigned

Qualifications

YOUR EXPERIENCE

• Interested in career in sales operations, planning, or data analytics
• Basic understanding of sales processes, business acumen, and methodologies
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects
• A demonstrated passion for information and business intelligence
• Strong attention to detail,  some experience using reporting and analytics applications preferred; Salesforce preferred and/or Anaplan a plus
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong presentation skills
• Experience with Google’s G Suite (Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides) is a plus
• Self-starter, able to establish own priorities, initiatives and drive to closure
• Basic understanding of Sales, Inside-Sales, Channels and supporting business functions
• Working towards Bachelor’s Degree in business or operations preferred

Additional Information

THE TEAM

Our sales operation team members support our sales account managers and systems engineers to assist in large organizations’ migrations to more cybersecurity. Sales operations work behind the scenes to make sure that our sales relationships run smoothly, enabling and empowering the teams across the world.

You support the sales team by providing research, reports, and craft and support systems and processes that enable the process of sales. It’s a true partnership, one built on building the best cybersecurity solutions for each individual client.

OUR COMMITMENT

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

Palo Alto Networks is evolving and changing the nature of work to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. From benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks. And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.