What You'll Do
Avalara’s Business Transformation team is looking for a highly motivated individual to join as a Senior Business Transformation Manager. This position will focus on evaluating and building key strategic initiatives across Avalara’s product lines and functions. We are looking for a self-starter who can own meaningful projects from concept to approval. This includes helping evolve early-stage ideas into mature growth opportunities.
The company relies on our Business Transformation team to provide proposals and insights that can drive EBITDA and further optimize all pricing and related GTM models. We are focused on aligning the organization, end-to-end, around the highest-level objectives by backing our recommendations with business cases and analytical forecasts. Given the high level of visibility and influence this position has, we expect candidates to have sharp attention to detail and overall executive presence.
This role will report to our Director, Business Transformation
We are open to fully remote or in-office
Responsibilities
- Collaborate across the business to source, analyze and expedite strategies that unlock value for the company and further monetize existing offers
- Define business cases that provide clear and direct recommendations on opportunistic projects
- Build financial models and forecasts that support proposals delivered by Business Transformation initiatives
- Quantify opportunity size, minimize edge cases, mitigate risks and maintain customer experience
- Lead multi-faceted projects from concept to approval, including:
- Driving ideation
- Recommending innovative approaches
- Curating strategic guidance
- Aligning project objectives with enterprise-level goals
- Delivering execution plans and milestones
- Cultivate cross-functional business relationships that enable faster and more efficient day-to-day operations
- Influence discussions and decisions with executives and functional stakeholders in order to maintain progress and timelines
- Excellent quantitative and qualitative abilities that drive structured, logical thinking/sequencing; Ability to convert reasoning and analysis into executive level summaries
- Individual perspective on recommendations/proposals; This role requires individual input and POV on proposals and ideation
- Strong track record of organized and methodical approaches for meeting timelines, tracking statuses, reporting progress, raising issues/risks and managing tasks
- Experience in applying “out of the box” thinking to business problems and challenges
- Ability to leverage newly acquired knowledge and understanding to new and existing growth objectives
- Develop ideas that can simplify, optimize, or automate in an environment where small changes can impact multiple projects
- Quality of work needs to meet very high standards; there is an expectation for high attention to detail on all work deliverables
- Maintain compliance with all company policies and procedures
What You'll Need to be Successful
Qualifications
- BS/BA from an accredited college or university
- MBA preferred
- 6+ years of demonstrated role progression in management consulting, investment banking, corporate strategy, operational transformation, or similar roles
Must-Have
Technical Skills:
- Proficiency with MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.)
- Strong ability to build clean and clear slide decks
- Strong ability to process, visualize and analyze data (SQL, Snowflake, Excel, PowerBI)
Good-to-Have
- Knowledge of sales & use tax
- Experience with CRM software like Salesforce (CPQ)
- Experience with tracking software like Atlassian Jira/Confluence
- Experience with Product based company
- Experience with SaaS based solutions
Soft Skills
Must-Have
- Very good written/oral language skills in email, slack, zoom and in-person
- Resiliency for continuously shifting and adapting environments, team structures, and company priorities
- Ability to interact professionally with employees, colleagues, and stakeholders
- Work collaboratively with willingness to listen and understand.
- Adaptability, initiative and problem-solving capabilities.
About The Team
We’re building cloud-based tax compliance solutions to handle every transaction in the world. Imagine every transaction you make — every tank of gas, cup of coffee, or pair of sneakers, every movie ticket, meal kit, or streamed song, every sensor-to-sensor ping. Nearly every time you make a purchase, physical or digital, there’s an accompanying unique and nuanced tax compliance calculation. The logic behind calculating taxes — the rules, rates, and boundaries is a global, layered, three-dimensional mess of complexity, with compliance dictated by governments and applied by every business, every day.
Avalara works with businesses of all sizes, all over the world — from corner stores to gigantic global retailers — to calculate tax accurately and automatically, at speeds measured in milliseconds. That’s a massive technical challenge, in terms of scale, reliability, and complexity, and we do it better than anyone. That’s why we’re growing fast. Headquartered in Seattle, Avalara has offices across the U.S. and around the world, in Brazil, Canada, India, U.K, Belgium and across Europe.
Pay Range Details
The base pay range(s) below are provided in compliance with state specific laws. Pay ranges may be different in other locations.
Colorado $105,900 - $169,500 (annually)
Washington $105,900 - $152,100 (annually)
California $105,900 - $187,200 (annually)
New York $117,000 - $187,200 (annually)
The pay range above is the general base pay range for you in the state listed. Your actual salary/wage may be based on multiple factors, such as geographic location, candidate experience and qualifications, and market and business considerations. This role is eligible for an annual bonus based on personal and company performance, depending on the terms of the applicable plan and your role.
How We'll Take Care of You
Total Rewards
In addition to a great compensation package, paid time off, and paid parental leave, many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses.
Health & Wellness
Benefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance.
Inclusive culture and diversity
Avalara strongly supports diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is committed to integrating them into our business practices and our organizational culture. We also have a total of 8 employee-run resource groups, each with senior leadership and exec sponsorship.
Flexible hybrid working
We support hybrid work and flexible schedules for our employees.
Learn more about our benefits by region here: https://careers.avalara.com/
About Avalara
We’re Avalara. We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech.
We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing nearly 40 billion customer API calls and over 5 million tax returns a year.
Last year, we became a billion-dollar business
, and our tribe expanded by a cool thousand people - there’s nearly 5,000 of us now. Our growth is real, and we’re not slowing down - not until we’ve achieved our mission - to be part of every transaction in the world.
We’re bright, innovative and disruptive, like the orange we love to wear. It captures our quirky spirit and optimistic mindset. It shows off the culture we’ve designed, that empowers our people to win. Ownership and achievement go hand in hand here. We instill passion in our people through the trust we place in them.
We’ve been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too.
EEO Statement
We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a cornerstone of our company — we don’t want people to fit into our culture, but to enrich it. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.
