Sr Director, Revenue Operations, EMEA

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Job Summary

NetApp is seeking a Senior Director, Revenue Operations - EMEA to serve as the strategic and operational partner to the SVP of GTM Sales in EMEA and lead the regional Revenue Operations organization. This leader will connect strategy, planning, execution, data, process, systems, and people across the end-to-end revenue engine. The successful candidate will translate EMEA business priorities into clear operating plans, establish ownership and decision rights, improve predictability and productivity, and build the capabilities required to execute consistently across a complex, multi-country region.  

The role requires an enterprise-minded leader who connects regional requirements with global GTM strategy, challenges legacy thinking constructively, and influences decisions through commercial judgment, analytical rigor, and trusted relationships. This leader will balance immediate revenue execution with longer-term transformation, standardizing the operating model where scale matters while adapting execution to diverse EMEA market realities. Success requires moving decisively from alignment to action, maintaining clear ownership, and ensuring sustained follow-through on agreed outcomes.  

Job Requirements

• 15+ years of progressive experience in Revenue Operations, Sales Operations, Sales Strategy, Business Analytics, or a related commercial leadership discipline, ideally within a global enterprise technology, SaaS, cloud, infrastructure, or data business. 
• 8+ years of people leadership experience, including leading leaders and geographically dispersed teams across multiple countries and cultures. 
• Experience operating as a senior strategic partner to regional or global sales executives in a complex, matrixed organization. 
• Deep expertise across sales planning, forecasting, pipeline governance, territory and quota management, capacity and coverage planning, revenue analytics, and operating cadence design. 
• A strong record of building high-achieving, diverse teams through clear expectations, coaching, talent development, performance management, and succession planning. 
• Expert-level analytical rigor and data fluency, with the ability to make sense of imperfect data and convert it into a concise business narrative and actionable recommendation. 
• Strong commercial acumen and an enterprise perspective, with the ability to connect operational levers, investments, and trade-offs to revenue, productivity, customer, and strategic outcomes. 
• Demonstrated success leading transformation and adoption, influencing without relying on formal authority, and navigating resistance, ambiguity, and competing stakeholder needs. 
• Fluency in GTM technology and systems, including CRM, incentive compensation, planning, forecasting, analytics, and reporting platforms, with the judgment to evaluate and scale solutions. 
• Executive presence and communication capability, including the ability to synthesize complex issues, facilitate decisions, and produce clear executive-level materials. 
• Ability to operate effectively across EMEA, with awareness of differing market dynamics, cultures, and business practices. Travel across the region and collaboration across global time zones may be required. 

Leadership attributes: 

• Challenger mindset & Strategic and forward-thinking
• Influence and change leadership & Inclusive people leadership
• Cross-functional leadership & Operational excellence

Responsibilities :

• Act as strategic advisor to EMEA Sales leadership, Team leadership and development.
• Connect global strategy with regional execution & Drive the EMEA operating rhythm
• Shape GTM planning and resource choices & Improve business predictability.

What success looks like 

• EMEA Sales leadership views Revenue Operations as a trusted strategic partner that improves the quality and speed of decisions. 
• The region operates with greater forecast confidence, pipeline discipline, performance transparency, and accountability. 
• Planning and resource decisions are connected to measurable business outcomes and reflect both global strategy and EMEA market realities. 
• The Revenue Operations team is clear on priorities, develops stronger commercial and analytical capability, and consistently delivers high-impact work. 
• Processes and systems become simpler, more scalable, and better adopted, with clear governance and less friction for the field. 
• Cross-functional initiatives move from decision to execution with clear ownership, sustained follow-through, and visible impact. 

At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification.

Why You'll Thrive at NetApp

At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment—you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure.

NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security.

Our culture

We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed—they drive everything we do.

If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one. Apply now.

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