Senior Business Consultant - Sales Planning (Canada)

Our Professional Services team is the leading provider in the Sales Performance Management space. We are a dynamic group of consultants, architects, and project managers who take pride in helping our clients get the most out of Varicent products by implementing solutions that meet their unique business and technical needs. Joining our practice means becoming part of a team that’s bold enough to chase experiences - like building, designing maintaining scalable compensation models for our customers, using Artificial Intelligence, captivating Visualizations, and unique and cutting-edge DB concepts. The Professional Services team at Varicent is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and believes in the value of different experiences, perspectives, and voices.
In this role, you will work closely with our clients in many industries such as Financial Services, High Tech, Banking, Manufacturing, Retail, and Insurance to identify requirements all the way to the deploy phase for Sales Performance Management (SPM) solutions to meet their business and technical needs.

What You’ll Do:

· Use industry experience to gather and document business requirements and translate them into technical specifications
· Oversight of the project team and the project implementation/delivery
· Consume and analyze large amounts of data
· Ensure all deliverables arrive in good order, on time, and fulfil customers’ requirements as per project timelines and budget
· Communicate project progress to both internal and external stakeholders
· Author complete business and design documentation that leads to sign off
· Collaborate with our cross functional team to achieve sustainable project and product growth
· Provide accurate effort estimates for work to be completed and hold yourself accountable for the delivery.
· Support and mentor the development of junior consultants
· Enable your customers to effectively use and maintain the Varicent solution
· Design and build flexible and scalable compensation models using established proven practices
· Create elegant and accurate reports, workflows, and dashboards in Varicent
· Develop Extract/Transform/Load (ETL) processes for data preparation
·Identify areas that could impact other Varicent products throughout an implementation
· Document and communicate project status regularly to the Project Management team
· Coordinate and communicate with the customer’s project manager and project resources
· Guide customers towards proven / recommended approaches to satisfying their business needs

·Understand the product road map

· Travel to client sites domestically or internationally
·You will be key contributor for successful project delivery. From discovery to project completion, you will lead project teams to execute and guide our clients through their implementation experience.
·You will lead large-scale multi phase complex projects through entire implementation life cycle.

Success Outcomes:

Within 1 - 3 months, you will:

· Participate in new hire training, bootcamp
· Orient yourself with Varicent delivery methodology and key deliverables
· Have a good overview of the market, the customers, and the user personas

· Be engaged on a full-time project

· Increase familiarity with the Sales Planning product
· Complete build and configuration of intermediate or advanced deliverables within a project with quality against project timelines
· Participate in the Test phase of a project to diagnose and resolve defects

Within 6 months, you will:

· Lead medium-to-large scale implementation projects
· Participate in knowledge-sharing sessions within your immediate and broader teams
· Mentor new hires on product implementation and project methodology
· Stay up to date on product improvements
· Provide accurate effort estimates for work to be completed and hold yourself and your team accountable for the delivery.
·articulate key differences between various product capabilities and provide best practice guidance to team and customers
·Understand and communicate upstream or down stream impacts on platform projects

Within 1 year, you will:

· Prescriptively guide customers toward recommended approaches to satisfy requirements
· Provide governance and quality control over delivered work by yourself and other team members
· Present a project success presentation to the larger Professional Services organization
· Demonstrate the success of your work through customer feedback and internal feedback
· Become a subject matter expert in several aspects of Varicent ICM
· Provide accurate product feedback to Project Management teams

Skills

Mandatory:

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
• 5+ years of experience in Sales Operations, Revenue Operations, or Incentive Compensation Management
• Strong understanding of go-to-market strategies, sales processes, and compensation plan design
• Hands-on experience with CRM, ERP, or sales compensation tools (e.g., Salesforce, SAP, Oracle, Xactly, Callidus, Anaplan, or Varicent)
• Strong analytical skills and comfort working with large, complex data sets
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills to translate business needs into technical requirements and vice versa
• Customer-centric mindset with demonstrated experience supporting cross-functional stakeholders (Sales, Finance, HR, IT)
• Proven ability to work independently and manage competing priorities in fast-paced environments
Preferred:
• High energy with a drive to succeed
• Ability to adapt to evolving and changing processes
• Additional languages with working proficiency (with preference for French, German, Spanish)
• Proficiency with query-based languages (e.g., SQL) and relational databases

The expected base salary range for this role is $110,500 - $145,050* CAD, and individuals may be eligible to participate in our variable compensation program.

*Final compensation may vary based on experience, skills, designations, and market conditions.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

This hiring process utilizes artificial intelligence tools to assist in candidate screening and assessment. Our AI tools are designed to complement, not replace, human decision-making.