
IT Business Systems Operations Analyst – Sales Pipeline, CRM
48forty Solutions
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Houston • Texas • United States
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Salary
💰 $117,000 - $130,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Partner closely with Sales leadership and frontline team members to develop a thorough understanding of current sales pipeline stages, workflows, handoffs, and pain points.
- Map end-to-end sales processes, from lead generation through close, documenting current-state and desired future-state workflows with clarity and detail.
- Perform analysis on sales data to understand the sales process and use this analysis to support or help manage changes in the sales organization.
- Identify gaps, redundancies, and friction points in existing processes and translate findings into actionable improvement opportunities.
- Facilitate working sessions and interviews with stakeholders to surface business requirements, validate assumptions, and build alignment across teams.
- Capture and document clear, well-structured functional requirements that reflect stakeholder needs and serve as the authoritative source for system or process changes.
- Develop business process documentation including process maps, workflow diagrams, use cases, and user stories that can be understood by both business and technical audiences.
- Maintain requirements backlog and ensure documentation is kept current as business needs evolve.
- Define acceptance criteria for new capabilities, ensuring requirements are testable and tied to measurable business outcomes.
- Serve as an embedded business partner to the Sales team, developing a deep understanding of pipeline health, conversion metrics, forecast accuracy, and deal management practices.
- Proactively identify opportunities to improve pipeline visibility, data quality, and reporting through process or tooling enhancements.
- Translate Sales team feedback and requests into structured requirements that can be prioritized and acted upon by IT or operations.
- Support the design and adoption of pipeline management standards, including stage definitions, field usage guidelines, and data entry expectations.
- Act as the business-side liaison for CRM-related initiatives, ensuring technology enhancements are grounded in real business needs and clearly specified before development or configuration begins.
- Evaluate CRM workflows, automation, and reporting capabilities against business requirements, recommending changes that improve usability and adoption.
- Coordinate user acceptance testing (UAT) for CRM updates, including defining test scenarios, coordinating testers, and tracking resolution of issues identified during testing.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in a Business Analyst, process improvement, or similar role with direct exposure to sales or revenue operations.
- Hands-on experience working with sales funnels, including a solid understanding of funnel stages, lead qualification, conversion metrics, pipeline velocity, and how deals progress from prospect to close.
- Demonstrated ability to identify funnel bottlenecks, document stage-level friction points, and translate those findings into actionable process or tooling requirements.
- Demonstrated ability to elicit, document, and validate business requirements through stakeholder interviews, workshops, and independent analysis.
- Strong skills in process mapping and workflow documentation (e.g., swim lane diagrams, flowcharts, etc.).
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor messaging to business and technical audiences alike.
- High proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint); comfortable working with data to identify trends and tell a story.
- Organized, detail-oriented, and capable of managing multiple concurrent workstreams in a fast-paced environment.
- Proactive problem-solver who takes ownership of outcomes and drives clarity rather than waiting for direction.
- Experience working with CRM platforms, HubSpot experience is preferred.
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies and tools such as Azure DevOps is preferred.
- Experience with sales forecasting processes or revenue operations concepts beyond the funnel is preferred.
- Experience supporting or coordinating UAT and system testing efforts is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive Pay, Holiday Pay, and Daily Pay – Access to your earned wages before payday!
- Referral Bonuses
- Long-Term Career Advancement
- Paid Time Off
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Basic Life, AD&D, and Short-Term & Long-Term Disability insurance for Eligible Full Time Employees
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Great Team Environment
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
business analysisprocess improvementsales funnel analysisprocess mappingworkflow documentationrequirements elicitationdata analysisuser acceptance testingsales forecastingCRM workflows
Soft Skills
communicationproblem-solvingorganizational skillsdetail-orientedstakeholder managementcollaborationadaptabilityownershipfacilitationanalytical thinking