Sales Operations Specialist

Transforming the Future with the Convergence of Simulation and Data

Sales Operations Specialist

Do you like a challenge, are you a complex thinker who likes to solve problems? If so, then you might be the new Altairian we are searching for. At Altair, your curiosity matters. We pride ourselves on a business culture that enables open, creative thinking, and we deeply value our employees and their contributions towards our clients' success, as well as our own.

Job Summary

Altair is looking for a detail-oriented Sales Operations Specialist with a strong analytical ability to join our Global Sales Operations team. This role will help to support the monthly commissions cycle, as well as work with the team to improve the entire sales compensation process.

Our team’s role is to identify, develop and manage strategic tools, training and processes for use throughout Altair's worldwide sales organization. This includes the areas of sales/opportunity management with our CRM and other sales-enablement tools, consulting/mentoring on strategic and complex sales, analysis of sales data used for forecasting and critical business decisions and overall sales-compensation design, implementation and management

What You Will Do

• Help manage the monthly commissions cycle via our Sales Compensation System
• Prepare and submit commissions to HR on a monthly basis
• Communicate with sales people and sales management regarding compensation plans and commissions
• Troubleshoot issues with commission calculations
• Make updates to Sales Compensation System - set up new employees, handle changes to compensation plans, etc.
• Understand and implement Altair's compensation rules
• Coordinate with the Sales Compensation System vendor for support and enhancement of the system
  
  
  

Basics

What You Will Need:

• 2-5 years experience in Sales Operations/HR Operations
• Highly articulate with strong written and verbal English communication skills
• Very detail-oriented
• Experience with Microsoft Excel
• Strong math and analytics skills
• A fast learner
• Ability to manage complex situations
• Strong organizational skills
• Ability to work some US Eastern Time-zone hours
  
  
  

Preferred

• Experience with commissions/sales compensation
• Experience with Xactly (or another sales compensation tool)
• Experience with Salesforce.com
  
  
  

How You Will Be Successful

• Envision the Future
• Communicate Honestly and Broadly
• Seek Technology and Business “Firsts”
• Embrace Diversity and Take Risks
  
  
  

What We Offer

• Competitive Salary
• Comprehensive Benefit Package
• Life & Health Insurance
• Lunch Vouchers
• Outstanding Work/Life Balance
• Flex Time
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Pension Plan
• Paid holidays
• Collaborative environment
  
  
  

Why Work With Us

Altair is a global technology company providing software and cloud solutions in the areas of product development, high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI). Altair enables organizations in nearly every industry to compete more effectively in a connected world, while creating a more sustainable future. With more than 3,000 engineers, scientists, and creative thinkers in 25 countries, we help solve our customer’s toughest challenges and deliver unparalleled service, helping the innovators innovate, drive better decisions, and turn today’s problems into tomorrow’s opportunities.

Our vision is to transform customer decision making with data analytics, simulation, and high-performance computing and artificial intelligence (AI).

For more than 30 years, we have been helping our customers integrate electronics and controls with mechanical design to expand product value, develop AI, simulation, and data-driven digital twins to drive better decisions, and deliver advanced HPC and cloud solutions to support unlimited idea exploration. To learn more, please visit altair.com .

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At our core we are explorers; adventurers; pioneers. We are the brains behind some of the world’s most revolutionary innovations and are not only comfortable in new and uncharted waters, we dive in headfirst. We are the original trailblazers that make the impossible possible, discovering new solutions to our customer’s toughest challenges.

Altair is an equal opportunity employer. Our backgrounds are diverse, and every member of our global team is critical to our success. Altair's history demonstrates a belief that empowering each individual authentic voice reinforces a culture that thrives because of the uniqueness among our team.