Senior Director, EMEA Sales Operations

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Location

London

About the Role

As the Senior Director of EMEA Sales Operations, you will lead the operational strategy and execution for one of our fastest-growing regions. Reporting directly to the VP of Worldwide Revenue Operations, with a dotted‑line relationship to the VP of EMEA Sales, you will partner closely with regional sales leadership, global sales operations, marketing, finance, and other cross‑functional teams to drive sales productivity, accelerate pipeline growth, and enhance forecasting accuracy.

You will identify, design, and execute strategies that improve performance, scalability, and operational excellence across the EMEA organisation. A catalyst for action, you will bring structure, insight, and momentum to a rapidly growing business. The ideal candidate is both process‑ and data‑driven, thrives on collaboration, and knows how to unite teams around a common vision to deliver exceptional results.

Responsibilities

Serve as a business partner to the EMEA VP and Sales Leadership team, defining and driving strategic initiatives that enable the region to achieve its quarterly and annual revenue objectives. You will deliver actionable insights, analytics, and dashboards that enhance decision‑making, uncover performance bottlenecks, and accelerate sales execution.

Build and manage the sales operations team for EMEA : recruiting, coaching, defining roles / responsibilities, establishing service levels and operational cadence.

Partner with global RevOps, Marketing Ops, Finance and Enablement to ensure regional execution aligns with global go‑to‑market strategy and expectations.

Drive forecasting discipline for the EMEA organisation : ensure accurate pipeline coverage, risk identification, deal reviews, and business reviews with regional leadership.

Monitor region‑specific market dynamics and ensure sales operations are tailored to the unique EMEA environment.

Own key regional sales operations metrics (e.g., sales cycle length, win rate, pipeline conversion, average deal size, forecasting accuracy, quota attainment) and provide regular reporting to senior leadership.

Partner with GTM strategy team and provide input to sales planning, including regular updates to quotas, customer segmentation, account targeting, and channel development.

Required Skills / Experience

Proven senior leadership experience (10+ years) in sales operations, revenue operations or go‑to‑market operations in a high‑growth technology / SaaS company.

Experience scaling sales operations across multiple geographies or regions (preferably EMEA) including complexity of multiple countries, languages, regulatory frameworks.

Strong analytical skills and comfort working with data : able to turn data into insights and actions.

Deep understanding of sales processes / end‑to‑end sales lifecycle, pipeline management best practices, forecasting, territory / quota design, incentive comp, CRM systems (e.g., Salesforce).

Ability to build and lead high‑performing teams : hire, develop, coach, structure roles and processes.

Exceptional cross‑functional collaboration and influencing skills : ability to partner with sales leadership, marketing, product, finance, enablement and others.

Excellent communication (verbal & written) – able to articulate complex operational issues and influence senior leadership.

Comfortable working in fast‑paced, dynamic, changing environment; strong change‑management aptitude.

Strategic thinking with strong execution orientation.

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

We're not just a highly ambitious, large‑scale technology company. We're a highly ambitious, large‑scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo : Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare's enterprise customers—at no cost.

Athenian Project : In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1 : We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy‑centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use— it is the first consumer‑focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here's the deal— we don't store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something you'd like to be a part of? We'd love to hear from you!

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