Sales Operations Administrator

Savvas Learning Company is a global education company that produces award-winning learning solutions that empower educators and engage students with the highest quality content.

Recognized as an industry leader, we serve millions of K-12 learners with innovative, student-centered educational programs that turn today's classrooms into active learning environments. By embracing technology, personalized learning, and immersive experiences delivered across multiple platforms, we design our learning solutions to be more accessible and relevant to each student.

Our award-winning, high-quality instructional materials span every grade level and discipline, from evidence-based, standards-aligned core curricula and supplemental and intervention programs to state-of-the-art assessment tools and the industry's most innovative portfolio of college and career readiness solutions - all designed to meet the needs of every learner.

SUMMARY

The Sales Operations Administrator supports the Savvas Learning Company Sales Organization. Sales Operations helps drive the salesforce productivity and effectiveness while providing the highest level of customer service for the sales organization to help ensure successful sales. Sales Operations is solution oriented and applies logical and rational decision making to resolve all unique customer challenges while ensuring solutions work within the systems and policies.

Individuals within Sales Operations are assigned a specific sales market to support. The Sales Operations Administrator partners with their assigned sales market and serves as a single point of contact for the sales team in all pre-sale activities, quotes, and day-to-day related support. The Administrator understands the quote-to-cash process for order processing which includes the applications and tools that support the process. Sales Operations understands the details and reasoning of a particular sales order or quote and the financial rules, system requirements, deployment and infrastructure constraints, and business compliance guidelines.

Ideal candidates will reside within a commutable distance to the Savvas office in Chandler, AZ.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Serve as a single point of contact for the Sales team for presale and order activities and day-to-day support.
• Create or manipulate quotes using Salesforce quoting tool adhering to all Finance, Business and System policies and structure.
• Partner with Sales to manage complex and non-standard deals from presale through delivery; provide oversight on deals to ensure accurate invoicing and delivery; communicate deal status to Sales.
• Respond to Sales phone calls and emails; act as an agent of the Sales team to facilitate requests or solve escalated issues; liaison with internal teams including Customer Service to ensure quotes are efficiently processed for revenue or issues are resolved.
• Create spreadsheets and other documentation to accurately represent the proposed structure of a complex deal; provide clear and complete direction to order processing to reduce any booking delays.
• Participate in pre-sale deal teams; provide input on systems and order processing to ensure compliance.
• Review deals for accuracy and completeness; conduct quality control on orders to verify required non-standard approvals are obtained and documented; ensure deals are compliant with revenue recognition rules.
• Prepare deferral calculation for all non-standard payment requests; interpret and draft credit analysis overview and route for approval.
• Record and track time allocation metrics.
• Assess order holds and other issues and formulate solutions to reduce delays in recognizing revenue.
• Review escalated scenarios or issues; use systems and other resources to identify the scope of the issue; determine solutions and provide direction to other groups, as appropriate, to resolve.
• Have knowledge of the schedule of authority for approvals outside the systematic routing; articulate approval requests; facilitate for appropriate approvals.
• Review, document, and process spend requests through Finance systems; engage Legal and Finance as required based on the specifics of the spend request and in accordance with the Savvas Gifting Policy.
• Manage executed contracts by coordinating with Legal and Finance to ensure compliance for order processing.
• Deliver strategic insights to sales leaders to facilitate data-driven decision-making.
• Recommend and drive process improvements.
• Manage and prioritize multiple tasks.
• Demonstrate teamwork, dedication, and a commitment to excellence.
• Interact with all levels of management; communicate effectively verbally and through email.

QUALIFICATIONS

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Savvas Learning Company provides access to a benefits experience created to offer our employees choice, flexibility, and the opportunity to save money for the future. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, tax-advantaged accounts, pharmacy, life insurance, disability insurance, matching 401(k), and paid time off. Our benefits are part of a total package that is carefully designed to support the total well-being of our employees.

Savvas Learning Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Savvas Learning complies with all applicable federal, state and local laws regarding recruitment and hiring. Savvas prohibits discrimination against individuals based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, and other protected group status. We strive to create a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant .

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