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Job Summary

The Senior Sales Support Associate works closely with large and complex customers and sales reps and delivers value by providing proactive and reactive sales support.
 

Responsibilities
Pre-Sales Administration and Transactions Coordination

• Coordinates all pre-sales activity for large, strategic customers (Large, Alliance, GAM and/or Major accounts in region)

• Solves complex issues by engaging internal support teams

• Takes on SSA Lead role from Hub for countries without SSAs

• Provides ongoing dedicated Sales Support to local Sales team (EMEA specific)

• Provides input for Hub Quote-to Cash calls on issues to escalate (EMEA Specific)

• Ensures SFDC is up to date at Account, Opportunity, and Case level for supported Sales Team

• Monitors and manages Case workload, identifying areas where caseload can be reduced or balanced with other SSAs

• Owns outside projects (defining, reporting on, and driving to completion) to improve SSA role

Customer Engagement

• Participates in face-to-face customer meetings as trusted pre-sales advisor together with Sales

• Prepares and presents Operations part of QBR

• Gathers customer feedback on Equinix processes and identifies improvement opportunities to increase customer satisfaction

• Understands future customer builds and timing

• Handles Customer escalations and works cross- functionally to resolve them

Complex Deal Support

• Reviews pipeline with Sales rep and identifies deals to work on

• Project manages multi-country deals engaging local SSAs

• Coordinates deal requirements with cross-functional deals to structure deal upfront

Data Integrity

• Leads data improvement initiatives for country or region (Siebel, SFDC)

• Uses management reports to define corrective actions (Billing)

• Proactively cleans up data on committed opportunities

Process and Policy adoption and reinforcement

• Monitors Sales compliance to policies in Sales Support

• Flags non-compliance to management

• Participates in cross-functional workshops to represent Sales Support

• Acts as a SME for tool or process

• Gathers input for Business Requirement documents

• Participates in UAT testing

• Creates and/or delivers process and policy training to Sales Teams as needed

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience preferred

• Bachelor's degree preferred

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