Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Digital Science is a pioneering technology company advancing the research ecosystem. The Sales Operations Associate role involves providing essential operational support to various teams throughout the customer pre-sales, contracting, and renewal processes.

Responsibilities

• Providing operational, administrative and clerical support to several departments — mostly sales, finance and legal — and to all companies that are part of the Digital Science group. Focus on pre-sales support, contracting and customer renewals
• Ensuring Salesforce is accurately updated with customer contract information for use by Finance, Sales, Legal, and business teams
• Supporting the legal team in ensuring that approved contracts are signed by the right signees
• Maintaining central repositories of customer and vendor contracts where applicable
• Responding in a timely manner to support business retention and meeting timelines to submit contracts, RFPs, registrations, and other key documents
• Proactively identify areas of process improvement and collaborate with the team and Sales Operations Manager on improvements

Skills

• A Bachelor's degree, ideally business related
• 2-3 years of experience in an operations-focused role, ideally sales-related
• Efficient, excellent attention to detail, organised and a natural problem solver
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, and comfortable working with internal and external stakeholders (including customers, government procurement, etc.) across various levels of seniority
• Ability to multi-task, prioritise, and pivot quickly
• Team-oriented with an emphasis on team building and communication
• Resourceful, solution focused with a positive attitude
• Proactive in following-up and confident in managing conflicting requests and expectations
• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to build relationships, being approachable and professional
• Understanding of working with cross functional teams across various locations and time-zones
• Salesforce knowledge is a requirement
• Experience supporting a Government, Funder, and Non-Profit (GFN) sales team is highly desirable

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