Sam Blackstock

Sales Operations at Workato

New Zealand

About

Strategic analyst with five years of experience in large internationals who drives toward achieving goals with great teams. A proven track record of success delivering analysis and insights to senior stakeholders along with setting and forecasting KPIs.

Experience

  • Workato (4 yrs 7 mos)
    • Sales Operations Manager
      Oct 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 10 mos

    • Senior Sales Operations Analyst
      Jan 2022 - Oct 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Sales Operations Specialist at Google
    Jun 2020 - Jan 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos

    - Defined datasets and dashboards to support key business processes e.g. Forecast, Quarterly Business Cadence, etc - Enabled the growing regional and functional sales teams with insights, analysis, and ensuring the smooth running of common processes and tools. - Provided thought leadership to support 80% y/y revenue growth with global sales setup including territory allocation, quota planning and sales forecasting for FY21-22. - Partnered with sales operations and sales management creating scalable process to reduce time spent on data correction and data quality control by 50%.

  • Commercial Analyst at Sky
    Jan 2020 - Jun 2020 · 6 mos

    - Provided in depth business cases for A/B tested proposition changes and ongoing or long range plans to add or overhaul eixisting products - Creating scaleable to flexible product analysis dashes to visualise outcomes, working directly with Data Intelligence teams to ensure accuracy - Summarised and communicated the potential cost/benefit for changes to strategic stakeholders while partnering with product managers to influence and guide.

  • Vodafone (3 yrs 7 mos)
    • Performance Analyst
      Jul 2017 - Aug 2019 · 2 yrs 2 mos

      - Lead the Enterprise business unit channels sales reporting, analytics & insights to support effective decision-making in driving the achievement of Enterprise channel productivity, cost-efficiency and revenue targets. - Worked cross functionally with Finance, Enterprise Segments, and Customer Operations channel heads to ensure appropriate Targets (relative to each VFNZ plan) are cascaded and managed across Enterprise channels. - Excellent numerate/analytical/Excel skills to synthesise large volumes of data to highlight key issues and pursue the reason for the issues identified. - Provided and presented recommendations for commercially viable solutions that are aligned to the strategic direction of the Enterprise business unit.

    • Graduate
      Feb 2016 - Jun 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos

      - FP&A – Report and model building in excel, pulling and manipulating large volumes of data from multiple financial systems to provide analysis and insight to drive decisions of senior stakeholders - Sales Operations – Working with senior management teams providing support for their sales professionals to meet their targets. Performance tracking and reporting in Salesforce.com delivering insight of multiple sales teams and accounts.