Director, Sales and Marketing Operations

Position

Director, Sales and Marketing Operations

Reports To

<p><span>Vice President, Strategic Marketing and Communications</span></p>

The Director, Sales and Marketing Operations is responsible for managing ongoing operations for sales and marketing, including organization-wide administration of salesforce.com, the marketing tech stack and sales reporting management.

Specific Responsibilities

Systems Operations and Vendor Management

  • Oversee operations for all sales and marketing systems, including but not limited to Salesforce.com, Hubspot, Adaptive Insights, etc. 
  • Evaluate and optimize the use of sales and marketing CRM and demand gen tools with a goal of streamlining lead generation, sales cycle development, and the customer lifecycle process. This includes team training, troubleshooting, governance, application, optimization, etc. 
  • Manage reporting for both sales and marketing.
  • Manage relationships with tools and systems vendors including system architecture and design, identifying development and customization needs, contract management, budgeting, user renewals, etc.

Market Opportunity and Pipeline Management

  • Manage forecasting/planning and tracking for new business, as well as upsell/cross-sell opportunities across sales and business development. 
  • Identify white space across all solution areas. Develop contact lists for opportunities. Work with marketing to penetrate target opportunities and deliver leads to sales for follow-up.

 

 

Prospect Journey, Sales Process, and RFP Support

  • Oversee Salesforce.com process and execution as it relates to marketing lead generation, nurture programs, and prospect assignments to sales in all points of the prospect journey relative to campaign ideation, build, and execution. 
  • Define and streamline sales processes, prospect life cycle, and cross-functional engagement with sales team members and other relevant teams. 
  • Manage development and delivery of sales compensation, incentive plans and commissions in conjunction with Chief Growth Officer.
  • Manage territory, targets, and compensation assignments.
  • Collaborate with key stakeholders when coordinating messaging to target accounts (account management, marketing, and strategic sales team members). Help ensure a coordinated approach to direct campaigning and communication.
  • Oversee the RFP process, including consultant support and cross-functional collaboration, to ensure quality responses are submitted on time and aligned to company objectives. 

Data Management, Reporting and Analysis

  • Streamline data management processes across the organization to ensure demand gen and CRM management contacts are clean and segmented according to needs. 
  • Manage data integrity, target lists and addition of net new leads to CRM and marketing databases to effectively target outreach. 
  • Work cross-functionally to manage and report on the following: sales pipeline, demand pipeline, marketing campaigns, and communication outlets.
  • Analyze results and develop recommendations on how to address shortfalls and maximize performance.

The Director, Sales and Marketing Operations is responsible for managing ongoing operations for sales and marketing, including organization-wide administration of salesforce.com, the marketing tech stack and sales reporting management. This role reports directly to the Vice President, Strategic Marketing and Communications. This role interacts with the entire enterprise and is an integral part of the organization, dedicated to achieving client satisfaction, customer relationship management, revenue generation and long-term growth in line with the CAQH Vision and Mission.

This is a full-time, exempt, remote position.

Knowledge, skills and abilities
Experience
  • Seven or more years of work experience in managing the sales process, sales team compensation, budgetary process, and revenue performance management. 
Education
  • Bachelor’s degree required.
  • Salesforce certified administrator preferred.

HubSpot Marketing Software Certification preferred

Sr. Writer, PR & Content

Reports To

<p><span>Vice President, Strategic Marketing and Communications</span></p>

The Sr. Writer, PR & Content will be responsible for building and maintaining a positive public image for the company, and for articulating our solution portfolio to the industry and key stakeholders.

Specific Responsibilities
  • Develop press releases and engage with the media. 
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to create social media content.
  • Plan or direct the development of programs to maintain favorable market views of the organization's agenda and accomplishments.
  • Coach designated team members in effective communication with the public and employees.
  • Study the organization's objectives and needs to build public relations strategies that influence public opinion and promote products, ideas, and services.
  • Prepare and edit organizational publications, including employee newsletters or case studies and product brochures.
  • Oversee web content, including evaluating, updating and maintaining content.
  • Collaborate with subject matter experts to write and produce thought leadership content. 
  • Develop content for solution-focused campaigns and singular content deliverables across multiple platforms, such as webpages, ads, emailers, brochures, case studies, articles, etc., and assist in creating content-driven templates and standards for various deliverables. 
  • Edit and revise draft content from team members across the organization to ensure content is free of grammatical errors, and compliance risks and follows all brand editorial guidelines.
  • Ensure all content is aligned with brand style, writing standards and CAQH voice.
  • Oversee and assist in the professional bio creation and publication process. 
  • Conduct simple keyword research working with SEO team to increase web traffic. 
  • Identify gaps in content and recommend new topics. 
  • Organize and maintain content calendar to publish or complete needed work within deadlines.

The Sr. Writer, PR & Content will be responsible for building and maintaining a positive public image for the company, and for articulating our solution portfolio to the industry and key stakeholders

 

The Sr. Writer, PR & Content will manage the organization’s public relations function and create media content to shape public opinion and increase awareness, in alignment with CAQH's business objectives. The Sr. Writer will create compelling content about the CAQH portfolio of solutions for a variety of channels and audiences, with a primary focus on health plans but also messaging for providers, and other healthcare industry stakeholders. 

 

This position requires a self-starter, strong collaborator, and the ability to support a content strategy, across digital and print platforms, that aligns with CAQH’s overall positioning strategy as well as its mission and values.

 

This Sr. Writer, PR & Content will collaborate across multiple organizational departments – including marketing, product, strategy and research, and executive leadership as well as customer contacts and industry subject matter experts. Reporting directly to the Vice President, Strategic Marketing and Communications, you will ensure that our message and voice is consistent across the organization. 

 

The ideal candidate is well versed in the process of writing, including internal/external research of topics, concept development/strategy, SME interviewing, writing/editing and proofreading articles before publication, as well as crisis communications. 

 

This is a full-time, exempt, remote position.

Knowledge, skills and abilities
  • Familiarity with principles of marketing (and the ability to adapt or ignore them as dictated by data).
  • Skill at both long-form content creation and real-time (immediate) content creation and distribution strategies and tactics.
  • The ability to intuitively understand what the audience needs to know and how they want to consume information.
  • Experience with content monetization, social media management, digital advertising content, and content marketing.
  • Experience with audience development and subscription strategy
  • Clear understanding of the business goal behind the creation of a piece (or series) of content.
  • Training as a print or broadcast journalist and has a “nose” for the story a plus.
  • Training in how to tell a story using words, images, or audio, and an understanding of how to create content that draws an audience. 
  • Strong relationship-building and communication skills with the ability to build trust and motivate staff and volunteers to perform at their best to achieve strategic business outputs.
  • Experience growing social media engagement that fosters positive sentiment.
  • Crisis communications experience a plus.
Experience
  • 10+ years of experience as a respected leader in multichannel content creation environment (publishing, newsroom - print, broadcast or both – and/or agency + consulting, etc.)
  • Experience with creating compelling messages for multidimensional audiences (or demographics)
Education
  • Bachelor’s degree required (preferably in Marketing or Communications).