The Senior Manager of Competitive Intelligence at Coupa drives strategic market analysis and competitive insights, aligning with cross-functional teams to enhance growth and positioning.
Coupa makes margins multiply through its community-generated AI and industry-leading total spend management platform for businesses large and small. Coupa AI is informed by trillions of dollars of direct and indirect spend data across a global network of 10M+ buyers and suppliers. We empower you with the ability to predict, prescribe, and automate smarter, more profitable business decisions to improve operating margins.
Why join Coupa?
🔹 Pioneering Technology: At Coupa, we're at the forefront of innovation, leveraging the latest technology to empower our customers with greater efficiency and visibility in their spend.
🔹 Collaborative Culture: We value collaboration and teamwork, and our culture is driven by transparency, openness, and a shared commitment to excellence.
🔹 Global Impact: Join a company where your work has a global, measurable impact on our clients, the business, and each other.
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The Impact of a Senior Manager, Competitive Intelligence to Coupa:
As a Sr. Manager of Competitive Intelligence at Coupa, you will play a critical role in driving the company’s growth by leading strategic market analysis initiatives that directly influence our competitive positioning and growth strategy. This role combines analytical and story-telling skills that translate competitive insights into actionable strategies for sales, product and marketing leadership. By closely collaborating with cross-functional teams and leveraging data-driven insights, you will help align our competitive positioning with customer needs, increase revenue, and strengthen Coupa’s position as a leader in total spend management
What You’ll Do:
- Build and enhance a comprehensive competitive intelligence framework to monitor market trends, competitive activities and other industry disruptions to identify strategic opportunities, potential threats and market gaps.
- Leverage an understanding of key personas, use cases, and value drivers for Coupa products to drive our integrated marketing strategy with clear, concise competitive positioning and messaging.
- Partner closely with our Global Sales and Customer Success teams to gather intelligence and implement enablement strategies.
- Directly influence our product roadmap and vision by sharing competitive insights with Product Management leadership.
- Evangelize the Coupa story by delivering compelling presentations at live and virtual events for internal and external audiences
- Identify ideal customers and opportunities for references, win stories and competitive feedback
What you will bring to Coupa:
- 5+ years of experience in B2B competitive intelligence including proven success in driving competitive messaging, positioning and sales enablement
- Ability to gather intelligence from research and data, present findings and decisions, influence stakeholders, and execute independently on initiatives
- Ability to work across organizational lines, command respect, and influence without authority
- Must be able to switch regularly and rapidly between strategy and execution
- Comfort and experience in presenting to diverse audiences, from small groups to large events, with the ability to engage, persuade, and communicate Coupa’s competitive differentiators effectively
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required
- MBA a plus
- Experience with Salesforce.com, Tableau, Clozd, Crayon, Highspot
- Experience with Procurement or Finance SaaS solutions
Preferences:
The estimated pay range for this role is $126,650 - $171,000
The starting salary for the successful candidate will be based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location.
Coupa complies with relevant laws and regulations regarding equal opportunity and offers a welcoming and inclusive work environment. Decisions related to hiring, compensation, training, or evaluating performance are made fairly, and we provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified candidates and employees.
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