Senior Sales Performance Consultant

LinkedIn•Mountain View, CA

13h•$117,000 - $190,000•Hybrid

About The Position

This role will be based in NYC, Chicago, Omaha, SF, or Sunnyvale/Mountain View. At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team. This role is ideal for someone who's passionate about closing skill gaps and skilled at driving process improvement. We are looking for a Senior Sales Performance Consultant to partner with global Deal Desk leadership and collaborate closely with Sales Operations, Pricing, Finance, Legal, and our Global Sales Enablement teams to deliver skill development and process optimization initiatives that accelerate deal velocity and improve business results. As a Senior Sales Performance Consultant supporting the global Deal Desk organization, you will identify friction in the deal lifecycle and recommend ways to streamline quoting, pricing, approvals, and deal structuring. You are highly attuned to the Deal Desk organization's strategy and goals, acting as an extension of its leadership team. Using both qualitative and quantitative analysis, you'll uncover skill gaps, process bottlenecks, and technology needs across the quote-to-close motion. With these insights, you'll create strategic skill-building and process-improvement plans — partnering with a dedicated Enablement lead to build out larger-scale programming while remaining hands-on enough to build and deliver solutions yourself — to help the team close deals faster, more accurately, and with less rework.

Requirements

7+ years of combined Deal Desk, sales operations, sales enablement, process improvement, change management, or consulting experience
Bachelor's degree

Nice To Haves

5+ years of enablement experience
3+ years of experience in Deal Desk, quote-to-cash, or sales operations
Exceptional executive communication skills with a demonstrated ability to influence executives without formal authority
Ability to navigate a complex, matrixed, and fast-paced organization, partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to roll out skill-building programs and process changes
Deep behavior/skill and process change management experience, ideally in a deal execution or quote-to-cash environment
Ability to perform robust data analysis, including identifying skill gaps and mapping process flows to quantify friction and improvement opportunities
Experience with adult learning and instructional design concepts and tools, with a demonstrated ability to build programs that drive skill development, process adoption, and business outcomes
Program/project management skills, with an ability to own and lead a skill-building or process-improvement program end to end
Resourcefulness in ambiguity — ability to self-solve when faced with challenges
Ability to deconstruct complex problems, root-cause the underlying skill and process drivers, and offer solutions rooted in business priorities
Command of an audience as demonstrated by facilitation and/or public speaking experience
Fluency in ML/AI tools, specifically CPQ/deal-desk software, Learning Management Systems, AI Sales Enablement software, project management software, and MS Excel and PowerPoint

Responsibilities

Serve as a key business partner to Deal Desk senior leaders to identify and solve knowledge, skill, and operational problems
Conduct data-driven analysis of the deal lifecycle to uncover knowledge, skill, process, and technology gaps that slow down or add risk to deal execution
Plan and execute skill-development and process-optimization strategy that delivers measurable improvements in deal cycle time, quote accuracy, approval efficiency, and compliance
Partner with a dedicated Enablement lead to build larger-scale programming, while independently designing, building, and delivering enablement solutions — training, playbooks, workshops, job aids, and reinforcement content — that close skill gaps and drive process adoption
Measure skill-building effectiveness and enablement ROI in partnership with Sales Operations and Finance
Influence stakeholders to close skill gaps, adopt standardized and optimized deal processes, and use feedback loops to drive continuous improvement and reinforcement
Collaborate with multiple senior stakeholders across Sales, Pricing, Operations, Finance, and Legal, and build coalitions of executive sponsors
Innovate using enablement and workflow technology to monitor knowledge and skill gaps, surface friction points, and drive learning reinforcement
Drive change management by securing cross-functional alignment, buy-in, and sponsorship, and by delivering exceptional skill-building and process-improvement strategies that ensure durable, long-term adoption