London, United Kingdom
1 day ago
Global Business Practices Director

About Blue Yonder:

Blue Yonder is a leading provider of digital supply chain solutions, leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning to empower businesses to predict and meet consumer demand efficiently. Our innovative cloud-based platform enhances inventory, labor, and logistics operations, improving efficiency, sustainability, and profitability. Committed to innovation and customer success, Blue Yonder transforms supply chain challenges into competitive advantages.

What you'll do:

Handle non-standard business approvals specific to Blue Yonder’s field sales and professional services, helping to shape and align deals to win, comply with policies, and maximize bookings growth.

Help to maintain the Blue Yonder Approval Matrix, or other documents used to assist Sales, and work to simplify the documents to always stay relevant.

Review Partner or Customer Master Agreements as needed to help Sales understand the contractual terms that govern the relationship with the Customer

Document commercial policies, create new policies as needed, and train members of the field on new policies or job aids

Assist in developing and maintaining a ‘Sales Guide’ to help Global Sales better understand contract terms and preferred responses to frequent Customer questions

Create and maintain a ‘language library’ of preferred language options to issues that are frequently seen through the approval process

Be a trusted advisor to Global Sales and attend Sales Forecast calls as invited/needed

Monitor and track any patterns of concern (frequently requested items that have a material impact on Blue Yonder’s business) and develop a plan of action to address

Create new project ideas to help transform Blue Yonder’s business

Be an internal leader and help Lead collaborative and cross-functional projects with teams in the Commercial Excellence group or other internal stakeholders to help increase productivity and reduce silos. 

Reinforce best practices with Global Sales 

Assist sales, if appropriate, in direct conversations with Customers during deal negotiations

What we're looking for:  

Highly self-motivated independent worker and thinker. We want someone who takes initiative. 

Pro-active action and approach, where possible

10 plus years’ experience working in a Contracts/Commercial Desk or Sales Operations role preferably in Enterprise Software, SaaS, or Technology  

Ability to effectively manage and communicate change

Excellent relationship building skills. Able to be firm, but fair, and receptive to feedback. Able to build strong relationships that can withstand the natural tension that may arise when challenging decisions must be addressed with stakeholders

Asserts own ideas and persuades others, gaining support and commitment and mobilizing people to act while remaining collaborative and open to feedback 

Works with others to deliver results, meaningfully contributing to the team and prioritizing group needs over individual needs

Clearly conveys thoughts, both written and verbally, listening attentively and asking questions for clarification and understanding 

Able to be succinct and clearly summarize insights and business impact. Appropriately tailors messages to audience 

Skilled at figuring out and managing the processes and timelines necessary to get work accomplished 

Can effectively cope with change, finding ways to advance work and projects 

Consistently achieves results, demonstrating high performance, and challenging self and others to deliver results 

Our Values


If you want to know the heart of a company, take a look at their values. Ours unite us. They are what drive our success – and the success of our customers. Does your heart beat like ours? Find out here: Core Values

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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