Staff Sales Operations Analyst

At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.

Cadence is a pivotal leader in electronic systems design, building upon more than 30 years of computational software expertise. The company applies its underlying Intelligent System Design strategy to deliver software, hardware, and Intellectual Property that turn design concepts into reality. Cadence customers are the world's most innovative companies, delivering extraordinary products from chips to systems, chemicals to drugs, and specification to manufacturing for the most dynamic market applications, including hyperscale computing, 5G communications, automotive, mobile, aerospace, consumer, industrial, and life sciences. Cadence prides itself on creating and sustaining a company culture that drives innovation and business success. Cadence is recognized as a Great Place to Work around the world and has been included as one of the Fortune "100 Best Companies to Work For" over the last nine years.

• Host weekly Sales meetings and manage the forecast rollup, opportunity accuracy, and reporting based on the Salesforce.com platform.
• Build, run, and analyze reports and dashboards for sales users and management and in doing so provide insight into the business and make strategic recommendations.
• Actively analyze opportunities for growing the IP business worldwide and work with sales team members and management to implement campaigns designed to convert these opportunities into revenue.
• Work closely with cross-functional groups (Sales Finance and Business Unit representatives) to remove roadblocks to closing IP business.
• Coordinate and plan periodic Worldwide Sales meetings - most, if not all, will be virtual.
• Prepare materials used at business review meetings with Sales Management and Sales Finance on a monthly and quarterly basis.
• Actively identify areas to improve existing sales and operational processes as the organization evolves.
• Foster an environment of collaboration, trust, and accountability.

• Bachelor's degree required with an emphasis in Business or Technology preferred.
• Position requires extensive experience in business development and/or inside sales.
• Position requires a understanding of the semiconductor and industry.
• Position requires a minimum of 6 years' experience in the technology sector.
• Previous sales operations, business analyst and/or finance experience preferred.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills a must.
• Ability to thrive in an extremely fast-paced and ever-changing business environment with the ability to balance multiple projects at once and handle high priority interrupts.
• Must be well organized and time sensitive to meet tight tactical timelines and deadlines.
• Ability to work independently with some supervision. Has the confidence to ask for help with prioritization while also taking initiative without asking for direction.
• Demonstrates intermediate to expert proficiency in the use of Salesforce and Microsoft Office tools (especially Excel - structuring, analyzing, and reporting on large data sets, using pivot tables, etc. - and PowerPoint).