Senior Manager, Sales Operations

Meet Your Next Favorite Place to Work!Beckman Coulter Diagnostics, an operating company of Danaher, is recruiting for a Senior Manager, Sales Operations. This position can be remote based.The Senior Manager will lead a team of individuals responsible for utilizing analytical and operational expertise to:Partner with sales leadership to drive strategic goalsIncrease understanding of drivers that influence sales performanceEnsure timely implementation of required operational processes for optimum business planningThe Senior Manager, Sales Operations will also define efficient approaches to sales operations deliverables, influence and apply best practices across the business, set priorities and support team members. This position will have four direct reports plus contractors.Wondering what’s within Beckman Coulter? Take a closer look.Join a team where you can be heard, be supported, and always be yourself. At Beckman Coulter, a Danaher company, we’re building a culture that celebrates backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives of all our associates.Our work helps improve millions of lives. We hope you’ll see yourself here, too!Main Responsibilities* Internal and Field Stakeholder Management: Effectively communicate and partner with internal and external stakeholders to gain agreement on business objectives and the action plan to achieve them.* Problem Solving: Demonstrate a strategic approach to achieve business objectives by asking strategic questions, aligning resources, developing an action plan, and evaluating action plan results.* Analytics: Maintain subject matter expertise with service and sales data sources and tools, and applies this expertise to deliver high quality data and actionable insights to achieve business objectives.* Process: Consistently implements all operations protocols, procedures, and standards in a timely manner.* Teamwork and Collaboration: Contribute to the team’s performance, actively collaborate within and beyond the team to design and ensure buy-in around solutionsLeadership:* Fosters an environment of candor and support for voicing ideas and overcoming concerns, including advancing own and others’ ideas through influence.* Effectively represents views of management to team, and team to management.* Leads organization-level initiatives and holds others accountable.* Delegates decision making and empowers own reports to make decisions and stands behind them.* Congratulates people for a job well done. Takes a genuine Interest in in people. Listens carefully, Tells the truth and explains the why.Managing and Developing People:* Manages team of individuals with significant business scope or complexity to deliver business results and individual development.* Provides ongoing discussion and active advocacy of team member development plans, identifying opportunities, articulating barriers, and providing clear assessment of current status.* Conducts development discussions with each direct that result in tangible action plans for leveraging strengths and addressing areas of growth.* Delivers balanced, honest and helpful mid-year and annual performance reviews leveraging organizational feedback.* As appropriate, advocates to manager for development moves, promotions; rewards and recognizes appropriately.* Assesses talent effectively, both current team members and interview candidates.Accountability* Foster a strong collaborative culture.* Provide strong leadership and project management skills.* Ensure executive management and stakeholders are kept informed of critical-path progress and variances from plan.* Serve as a liaison between sales, service, marketing, finance, IT, etc.* Oversee and monitor all phases of critical projects.* Respond proactively to potential delays in a manner that reduces or eliminates the risk of delay or disruption.* Ensure processes are simplified and easy to understand and execute.* Cost center and vendor management.Essential Requirements:* Bachelor’s degree with 14+ years exp. OR Master’s/Doctoral degree with 12+ years exp. Related experience includes 4+ years managing people.* 5+ years of sales operations experience to include analytics experience.* Demonstrated ability to structure and conduct analyses to generate insight and recommendations.* Knowledge of reporting and data analytics tools like Excel, SAS, Power BI, Qlikview, Spotfire, Tableau, Business objects.It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:* Incentive compensation, field reporting, customer segmentation, field force sizing and business planning.* Diagnostics industry experience.* Excellent problem solving skills, detailed oriented with focus on quality and accuracy.* Strong verbal and written communication skills, proficient in interacting with Senior Leadership.* Experience managing projects and vendors.#LI-GC1#LI-RemoteBeckman Coulter, a Danaher company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to associates’ and their families’ lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job.At Beckman Coulter, we’re driven by a sense of wonder for what we can create-and what we can become. Here, you’ll accelerate your career while driving innovation that improves lives. You’ll work hard and try new things, with guidance from committed leaders, powerful DBS tools Danaher Business System, and the support of a global organization. As part of the Danaher family of 67,000 associates across the globe, your possibilities for growth and development are unparalleled.We believe that creativity and innovation thrive when the most diverse set of voices are heard, and that’s why we’re taking concrete steps to ensure that we’re fostering an inclusive and engaging workplace for our team. If you’d like to learn more, read stories from our associates on our Careers Blog or contact one of our recruiters.We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.Danaher Corporation and all Danaher Companies are equal opportunity employers that evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristics protected by law. The “EEO is the Law” poster is available here.

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