Field Operations Director EMEA

The EMEA Field Operations Director is a critical operational partner for the EMEA sales organization. This role partners daily with regional sales leaders and serves as the primary connection point between the global VP of Field Operations and the realities of how the business runs on the ground. This is a highly execution-focused role where success is measured by operational excellence consistency and the speed at which field challenges are identified and resolved. The value is in what gets done how consistently and how fast problems get caught and escalated.

What Youll Do

• Partner daily with EMEA regional and country sales leaders to run the business with operational rigor

• Drive accountability for execution standards pipeline inspection and deal progression across all markets

• Enforce forecast accuracy through structured weekly monthly and quarterly field operating cadences

• Own the execution of regional pipeline reviews forecast calls and quarterly business review inputs

• Ensure global go-to-market initiatives land consistently across all EMEA segments and countries

• Spot regional adoption gaps early and surface them before they impact revenue performance

• Provide a structured operational feedback loop to leadership and transformation teams

• Surface execution risks including pipeline gaps productivity issues and forecast volatility with actionable insights

• Flag systemic regional trends and execution challenges rather than isolated business misses

• Collaborate with sales planning teams to validate regional coverage and capacity models in practice

• Coordinate with sales enablement teams when field capability gaps impact regional performance metrics

What Youll Need

Minimum Qualifications

• 10 years of related career experience in Sales Strategy Business Operations or Revenue Operations

• Experience delivering measurable improvements in sales productivity and growth within SaaS organizations

• Experience acting as a strategic advisor to senior enterprise sales leadership

• Experience managing pipeline hygiene forecasting methodologies and sales operating rhythms within EMEA markets

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of relevant experience and expertise

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading regional change management and executing complex cross-functional projects in high-growth technology environments

• Experience influencing and managing project teams across functional lines without direct authority

• Background in sales process design performance metrics and go-to-market execution for enterprise SaaS

• Working knowledge of diverse EMEA market dynamics and cross-cultural business environments

• Analytical strength combined with pragmatic problem-solving skills in fast-paced software environments

• Experience distilling complex program analysis into actionable insights for regional leaders

Travel Requirement & Working Conditions

• Up to 15% travel

• Reliable home internet connection for remote collaboration across multiple time zones

Why Join Workiva

Workiva is the platform designed to bring confidence control and a competitive edge to the worlds most complex organizations. Our AI-powered platform unifies finance risk and sustainability on a single secure foundationensuring data is trusted traceable and ready to act on. With an unbroken path from source to output leaders gain confidence in their numbers visibility into current and emerging risks and the ability to move with speed and precision in a constantly changing world.

At Workiva youll bring technology to market that executives boards and regulators depend on. The work you do here helps organizations navigate uncertainty maintain trust and make decisions that stand up to scrutiny. If youre energized by meaningful challenges inspired by collaborative teams and motivated to help organizations turn uncertainty into advantage wed love to meet you.

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