United Kingdom · Sales · Mid-Level (2-5 years)

Sales Performance Analyst

Here is the whole job, in plain words. What it is, a real day, what you decide, how you're judged, how people get here and where they go next. Then the part no course gives you: twelve AI tutors who learn your work.

Experience bandMid-Level (2-5 years)
Direct reportsNo direct reports
Reports toSenior Sales Performance Analyst or Lead Sales Performance Analyst
UK framework levelUsually a coordinator, or early in a professional job

Also advertised as Sales Analyst · Revenue Operations Analyst · Commercial Insights Analyst

Built on an analysis of 43,079 real UK job descriptions · grounded in qualifications employers recognise

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1What this role really is

You'll be the person who digs into the 'why' behind our sales numbers. This isn't just about pulling reports; it's about understanding what's really happening on the sales floor, spotting trends, and helping us figure out where we can do better. You'll spend your days making sense of lots of data, turning it into clear insights that our sales leaders can actually use to make decisions. Think of yourself as the detective for our sales performance, finding clues in the data to solve business mysteries.

2What you'd actually use

The tools this job runs on, and how well you'd need to know each one.

Salesforce (Lightning)Intermediate

Building standard reports, creating dashboards, performing data exports, and validating data entry. You'll understand standard objects like Leads, Accounts, and Opportunities, and how they connect.

Tableau or Power BIIntermediate

Connecting to standard data sources (like Salesforce), building and maintaining pre-defined dashboards, and using filters and drill-downs to answer specific questions from sales leaders.

Advanced Excel (Power Query, XLOOKUP)Advanced

You'll be proficient with pivot tables, complex formulas (think SUMIFS, INDEX/MATCH), and definitely XLOOKUP. You'll also use Power Query for basic data cleaning and transformation before it hits your analysis.

SQL (PostgreSQL or T-SQL)Intermediate

Writing basic to moderately complex `SELECT...FROM...WHERE` queries, including joins, to pull specific datasets from our data warehouse for deeper analysis or reporting.

Outreach or SalesLoftBasic

Pulling standard activity reports (calls, emails, meetings) from our sales engagement platform to understand rep activity and contribute to activity-to-outcome analysis.

3What you get to decide, and how that grows

Power in a job isn't your title. It's what you're allowed to decide. Here's how it grows as you move up.

The choice	Coming in	Where you are now	The step above
Data Source Selection for a New Report	Follow manager's instructions or use pre-approved sources.	Independently select appropriate data sources (e.g., Salesforce, SQL database) for routine reports; consult manager for novel or complex data needs.	Design and recommend new data ingestion strategies; approve new data sources for team use.
Dashboard Design & Visualisation	Build dashboards following existing templates and specific instructions.	Design and build new dashboards independently, choosing appropriate visualisations to answer specific business questions; seek peer feedback before finalisation.	Define dashboard design principles and best practices for the team; approve major dashboard redesigns.
Prioritisation of Ad-Hoc Requests	Work with manager to prioritise all incoming requests.	Prioritise routine ad-hoc requests based on established guidelines (e.g., impact, urgency); escalate conflicting priorities or high-impact requests to manager.	Independently manage and prioritise a complex queue of requests, delegating to junior team members where appropriate.
Identification & Resolution of Data Quality Issues	Flag identified data quality issues to manager.	Independently identify and investigate data quality issues; propose solutions to manager or Sales Operations; may implement minor fixes with approval.	Lead initiatives to improve data quality; define data governance standards and processes.

4How you'll be judged

The scoreboard, honestly: the hard targets, how often each one is actually looked at, and the quiet human signals that never make it onto a dashboard.

Report & Dashboard Accuracy

How often your reports and dashboards match the underlying source data and are free from calculation errors.

Target · >98% accuracy on all routine reports

You build a pipeline report that shows £2.5M, and when a Sales Manager cross-references it with Salesforce, it's exactly £2.5M, with no discrepancies.

Ad-Hoc Request Turnaround Time

The speed at which you complete specific, one-off data requests from sales leaders.

Target · Routine requests completed within 24 business hours; complex requests within 3 business days (after clarification)

A Sales Manager asks for a list of all deals over £50K in the 'Negotiation' stage by 10 AM. You deliver it by 3 PM the same day.

Data Quality Improvement Contribution

Your active role in identifying and helping to fix issues with the raw data in our CRM, making everyone's life easier.

Target · Identify and flag 5-10 data quality issues per month; contribute to a 10% reduction in specific data errors quarterly.

You spot that 15% of opportunities in a certain region are missing a 'Next Step' date. You flag this and work with the Sales Manager to get it corrected.

Pipeline Health Dashboard Adoption

How often sales managers and reps actually use the dashboards you build to monitor their pipeline and performance.

Target · 75% weekly active users among target sales managers

Your 'Regional Pipeline Health' dashboard is opened by 12 out of 15 sales managers at least once a week, showing they find it genuinely useful.

Proactive Insight Generation

You don't just wait for questions; you actively look for interesting trends or potential problems in the data and bring them to your manager or sales leaders.

You regularly share 'Did you know?' insights in team meetings. You proactively flag a dip in conversion rates for a specific product line before anyone asks. Sales managers mention you've helped them spot something they missed.

Clarity of Communication

How well you explain complex data findings in a simple, easy-to-understand way, especially to non-technical sales folk.

Your presentations are clear and concise, with actionable takeaways. Sales managers can easily explain your findings to their teams. You avoid jargon and focus on the 'so what?' for the business.

Stakeholder Feedback & Trust

The sales teams you support see you as a reliable, helpful partner, someone they trust for accurate information and sound analysis.

Sales managers frequently come to you for data questions. They thank you for your help. Your manager gets positive informal feedback about your support. You're seen as a go-to person for data-driven answers.

Process Improvement Suggestions

You're always thinking about how we can make our data processes better, more efficient, or more robust.

You suggest ways to automate a manual report. You propose a new data field in the CRM that would improve reporting. You identify a bottleneck in our data flow and suggest a fix.

5Would you like it

The honest version. What people enjoy, and what grinds them down.

What people enjoy

Solving Puzzles with Data

You get a real kick out of taking a messy dataset and turning it into a clear picture, finding patterns, and uncovering the 'aha!' moments. It's like being a detective, but with spreadsheets and dashboards.

Spending an afternoon digging into why one sales segment has a much higher win rate than another, only to discover a specific training programme was the differentiator.

Direct Business Impact

You want your work to actually be used and make a difference. Seeing a sales leader change their strategy based on your analysis, or a team improve their performance because of your insights, is what drives you.

After presenting an analysis on pipeline bottlenecks, the sales leadership team decides to implement a new qualification process, and you see conversion rates improve over the next quarter.

Continuous Learning & Improvement

You're always looking for new ways to analyse data, new tools to use, or better ways to present information. The idea of mastering your craft and constantly getting better at what you do really appeals to you.

Taking the initiative to learn a new SQL function to make your queries more efficient, or exploring a new visualisation technique in Tableau to make a dashboard clearer.

What frustrates people

The 'Garbage In, Garbage Out' Reality: Your analysis is only as good as the data in the CRM, and reps often treat data entry as their lowest priority, leading to hours of painful data cleansing.
Political Pressure Cooker: Being subtly pressured by a sales VP to 'tweak the numbers' to make their region's forecast look more favourable right before the Quarterly Business Review (QBR).
The Friday 4 PM 'Urgent' Request: The CRO needs a completely new, never-before-seen analysis for a board meeting on Monday morning, completely blowing up your weekend plans.
Chasing Ghosts: Spending days trying to reconcile why your Tableau dashboard shows £10.5M in pipeline while the native Salesforce report shows £10.4M, only to find a bizarre sync error or a single missing filter.
The Constantly Moving Goalposts: Leadership decides to change the sales compensation plan or territory assignments mid-year, forcing you to remodel and re-calculate everything from scratch, often with little notice.

What this role does not give you

A predictable, unchanging daily routine – expect variety and shifting priorities.
Complete control over data quality – you'll often be working with imperfect data.
Guaranteed implementation of every insight – not all good ideas get actioned.
A quiet, isolated analytical haven – you'll be interacting with sales teams constantly.

6Who you work with

Your work directly influences how our sales teams operate, from daily activities to quarterly planning. You'll help us identify what's working and what isn't, making sure we're focusing our efforts where they'll have the biggest impact on revenue. Honestly, you're a bit of an unsung hero, providing the factual basis for many critical sales decisions.

Inside the business

Sales Managers (your primary internal 'clients')
Sales Operations Leadership
Marketing Team (for lead generation and campaign performance)
Finance Team (for budget and revenue reconciliation)
Product Team (for understanding product performance in sales)

Outside the business

CRM Vendor Support (e.g., Salesforce support)
BI Tool Vendor Support (e.g., Tableau support)
Data Providers (if we use external market data)

7What you need before you start

Not a wish list. The things you would be expected to already have.

At least 2 years of hands-on experience in a data analysis role, ideally within a sales, commercial, or finance department.
Demonstrable experience building dashboards and reports using a BI tool like Tableau or Power BI.
Proven ability to write SQL queries for data extraction and manipulation.
Strong Excel skills, including complex formulas and Power Query.
A track record of identifying data issues and working to improve data quality.
The ability to translate business questions into analytical problems and then present the findings clearly.

8What to practise next

Where the job is going, and what to do about it starting this week.

Prompt Engineering for Data Analysis

AI is already changing how we interact with data. Being able to 'speak' to Large Language Models (LLMs) effectively to generate code, draft summaries, or even suggest analytical approaches will be a huge productivity booster. Analysts who master this will outproduce their peers.

Clear & Concise Prompting · Context & Constraints · Iterative Prompting · Output Validation

This week: Sign up for a free account with ChatGPT or Claude and start using it to draft emails or summarise articles.
This month: Experiment with asking an LLM to write basic SQL queries or Excel formulas for you, then validate the output.
Month 2: Try using an AI coding assistant (like GitHub Copilot) to help you write or debug some of your Python or SQL scripts.
Month 3: Document how much time you're saving and share your best 'AI prompts' with your team.

Quick win: Use an LLM to summarise long email threads or meeting notes related to a sales project. It's an immediate time-saver and helps you get up to speed quickly.

Basic Python for Data Analysis (Pandas)

While Excel and SQL are your bread and butter now, Python (specifically the Pandas library) is becoming the industry standard for more complex data manipulation, cleaning, and statistical analysis. It offers more power and automation capabilities for larger datasets.

Pandas DataFrames · Data Loading & Cleaning · Data Manipulation & Aggregation · Basic Visualisation

This week: Find a free online course or tutorial on 'Python for Data Analysis' focusing on Pandas.
This month: Try to replicate one of your simpler Excel data cleaning tasks using Python and Pandas.
Month 2: Experiment with reading data from a CSV or Excel file into a Pandas DataFrame and performing some basic aggregations.
Month 3: Work on a small project where you use Python to automate a repetitive data preparation step for one of your reports.

Quick win: Install Anaconda (a Python distribution) and Jupyter Notebooks. Try loading a small CSV file and just inspecting the data using Pandas commands. It's a small step, but it's a start.

9Staying current once you are in

What people here do to keep up

Regularly engage with online data communities (e.g., Tableau Public, Kaggle, Reddit's r/dataanalysis) to see how others are solving problems and presenting data.
Attend webinars or online courses on advanced Excel, SQL, or BI tool features to keep your skills sharp.
Seek out opportunities to present your analysis to different audiences within the company to hone your data storytelling skills.
Read industry blogs and articles on sales operations, revenue intelligence, and data analytics trends to stay informed.

10How the AI economy is changing work like this

Before we ask anything of you, here's what we can already say about AI and work of this kind:

The new skill this role is being asked for: Data Storytelling & Narrative Building

It's not enough to just show numbers anymore. Sales leaders are swamped with data, and they need someone who can cut through the noise and tell a compelling, actionable story. The ability to weave data points into a clear narrative that drives decisions is becoming critical.

We'll only ever tell you what we can actually back up. No hype, no scare tactics.

The rising capability

Zavmo analysis

What's rising in its place

This is where the work is heading, and the higher pay with it. Get fluent here and the shift stops being a threat and starts being your edge.

Data Storytelling & Narrative Building

It's not enough to just show numbers anymore. Sales leaders are swamped with data, and they need someone who can cut through the noise and tell a compelling, actionable story. The ability to weave data points into a clear narrative that drives decisions is becoming critical.

Audience-Centric Communication
The 'So What?' Principle
Visual Hierarchy
Narrative Arc

What you’ll use

Skills this role draws on

Technical

Sales Pipeline Analysis & Velocity Tracking
Territory & Quota Planning Fundamentals
Sales Forecasting Methodologies (Application)
Win/Loss & Churn Analysis (Quantitative)
Sales Capacity & Productivity Modeling (Basic)

The pathway

How you actually get there, here

How you become one varies far more by country than what one does. This is the UK route. Most people take one of these ways in; the right one depends on where you're starting from.

1
Junior Data Analyst / Associate Sales Analyst
1-2 years
Skills to master
- Mastering data extraction (SQL), basic reporting (Excel), and understanding core business metrics. Getting really good at data cleaning and validation.
You're ready to move on when
- Consistently delivers accurate reports on time with minimal supervision.
- Can independently troubleshoot basic data discrepancies.
- Proactively identifies opportunities for process improvement in data handling.
- Demonstrates a solid understanding of the sales funnel and key sales terminology.
2
Sales Operations Coordinator / Specialist
2-3 years
Skills to master
- Deep understanding of CRM administration (Salesforce), sales processes, and the operational cadence of a sales team. Experience with sales forecasting and territory management support.
You're ready to move on when
- Has a strong grasp of how sales teams operate day-to-day.
- Can effectively manage and maintain CRM data integrity.
- Has supported sales planning cycles (e.g., quota setting, territory alignment).
- Shows a clear interest in using data to drive sales efficiency.
3
Finance Analyst (with Sales Focus)
2-4 years
Skills to master
- Strong financial modelling, budgeting, and forecasting skills. Experience with revenue recognition, P&L analysis, and understanding the financial impact of sales performance.
You're ready to move on when
- Excellent numerical and financial analysis skills.
- Understands the financial implications of sales decisions.
- Can reconcile sales data with financial reporting.
- Has a desire to apply financial rigor to sales performance optimisation.

11Where this role leads

The long view:Your journey here as a Sales Performance Analyst is just the beginning. We're looking for someone who's not just great at numbers but genuinely excited about using data to help our sales team win. We'll invest in your growth and give you the opportunities to shape your career in a way that truly excites you.

Pay & demand

Pay and demand for this role will appear here, each figure traced to a named authoritative source (e.g. the ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, under the Open Government Licence). We don’t show numbers we can’t attribute.

The ten Future Fluencies

Zavmo analysis

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

A qualification proves you can do the job as it's defined today. These ten are what decide whether you're still the obvious person for it in five years. They're the capabilities employers are now writing into senior roles faster than people are learning them. Zavmo weaves them through whatever you study, so you come out with both: the credential and the fluency.

The highlighted ones are the Fluencies your role leans on hardest, from how Sales Performance Analyst is actually changing. In about two minutes, the free confidence check asks where you stand on each of the ten. That's the whole check, and it's what makes the plan yours rather than generic.

12The team that's yours

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

Zavmo is a hyper-personalised AI learning platform. Twelve virtual tutors, each with a different way of teaching, and one orchestration agent that picks the right one for the moment. So every single lesson is shaped around you, your role, and the way you learn. Not a course everyone sits through. A conversation built for you, and no one else.

…and nine more, matched to you after your first chat. Meet all twelve

Start free and meet yours

13What it feels like

A conversation, not a course

Because your tutor knows your role, your projects and your last session, learning sounds like this. And it's different for every single person:

Data AnalyticsLevel 4

Applied to your work in Sales Performance Analyst

The objective of this unit is to equip learners with the knowledge and skills to apply data analytics techniques in decision-making processes. Learners will be able to utilise descriptive, statistical, predictive, and prescriptive analytic methods to transform data into actionable insights, forecast future events, and determine optimal solutions for a given situation.

How the thinking builds

Remember
Understand
Apply
Analyse
Evaluate
Create

An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.

One to one, not one to many

No two people run this the same way

A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.

Your actual work Every lesson is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.

See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.

DemonstrateIllustration

Evidenced on your work in Sales Performance Analyst

You do not finish by watching something. You finish by showing it on the work you already do, against the measures this job is judged on.

Report & Dashboard AccuracyHow often your reports and dashboards match the underlying source data and are free from calculation errors.You build a pipeline report that shows £2.5M, and when a Sales Manager cross-references it with Salesforce, it's exactly £2.5M, with no discrepancies.>98% accuracy on all routine reports
Ad-Hoc Request Turnaround TimeThe speed at which you complete specific, one-off data requests from sales leaders.A Sales Manager asks for a list of all deals over £50K in the 'Negotiation' stage by 10 AM. You deliver it by 3 PM the same day.Routine requests completed within 24 business hours; complex requests within 3 business days (after clarification)
Data Quality Improvement ContributionYour active role in identifying and helping to fix issues with the raw data in our CRM, making everyone's life easier.You spot that 15% of opportunities in a certain region are missing a 'Next Step' date. You flag this and work with the Sales Manager to get it corrected.Identify and flag 5-10 data quality issues per month; contribute to a 10% reduction in specific data errors quarterly.
Pipeline Health Dashboard AdoptionHow often sales managers and reps actually use the dashboards you build to monitor their pipeline and performance.Your 'Regional Pipeline Health' dashboard is opened by 12 out of 15 sales managers at least once a week, showing they find it genuinely useful.75% weekly active users among target sales managers

These are this job's own measures, with its own targets. Nothing is marked evidenced, because nobody has started this yet. Yours would fill in from the work you bring.

Your passport

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

Every credit you earn and every fluency you build adds up: evidence where it counts, carried with you. Zavmo keeps the map: where you are, where you're heading, and the next step, at your pace, around your life. From Sales Performance Analyst to Senior Sales Performance Analyst (L3), and whatever you decide comes after.

Level 3 · in progressAI Fluency→ Senior Sales Performance Analyst (L3)→ your design

Where this takes you

Your journey here as a Sales Performance Analyst is just the beginning. We're looking for someone who's not just great at numbers but genuinely excited about using data to help our sales team win. We'll invest in your growth and give you the opportunities to shape your career in a way that truly excites you.

See Your Progress GrowIllustration

Sales Performance Analyst

Sales Pipeline Analysis & Velocity Tracking
Territory & Quota Planning Fundamentals
Sales Forecasting Methodologies (Application)
Win/Loss & Churn Analysis (Quantitative)
Sales Capacity & Productivity Modeling (Basic)

This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

14The detail, folded away

Everything else the record holds

The career branches in full, how AI is already showing up in the day-to-day, and the questions people ask about this job. Here when you want them, out of the way while you decide.

Where it leads next, rung by rung

Where it leads

The career path, and where it branches

Sales Performance Analyst is a start, not a ceiling. Each step below asks for new skills and hands back more autonomy.

Senior Sales Performance Analyst (L3)
2-3 years from this role
This is the most common and direct step. You'll move from independently executing to leading more complex projects and mentoring others.
- Complex Sales Forecasting Model Design
- Incentive Compensation Design & Analysis
- Advanced Territory & Quota Planning
- Deeper integration with Sales Engagement Platforms (e.g., Gong.io, Clari)
Sales Operations Manager (L4/L5)
3-5 years from this role
This path moves you into a broader operational role, managing processes and potentially people, rather than just analysis.
- CRM Administration & Strategy
- Sales Enablement Program Design
- Sales Process Optimisation
- Cross-functional Project Leadership

Working with AI on the job

Working with AI

Where AI is starting to help

Imagine getting through your routine analysis faster, spotting insights you might have missed, and having more time for the really interesting strategic work. That's what AI can do for you as a Sales Performance Analyst.

AI isn't here to replace your analytical brain; it's here to be your co-pilot, handling the grunt work and giving you a head start on complex problems. For a Sales Performance Analyst, this means less time wrestling with messy data and more time finding those crucial insights that drive sales.

CRM Data Janitor

Use AI tools to automatically de-duplicate leads and contacts, standardise job titles and company names, and flag opportunities with missing or inconsistent data (like a close date that's somehow in the past). It's like having a tireless assistant cleaning up the CRM for you.

Predictive Forecaster Assistant

Leverage AI models to quickly analyse historical deal data, rep behaviour, and engagement signals (pulled from tools like Gong or Outreach). This can help you generate a statistically-driven initial forecast and even identify 'at-risk' deals that reps might have optimistically flagged as 'Commit'.

Market & Competitor Scout

Deploy AI agents to continuously monitor competitor pricing changes, new product launches, and broader market trends. These tools can synthesise findings into a quick weekly brief, giving you a head start on informing sales strategy and updating battle cards without hours of manual research.

QBR Narrative Generator

Feed your key performance data (quota attainment, pipeline growth, win rates) into a Generative AI model. It can then produce a solid first draft of the commentary and key takeaways for your Quarterly Business Review (QBR) presentation, saving you a chunk of writing time.

Common questions

How do you become a Sales Performance Analyst?

Common routes in include Junior Data Analyst / Associate Sales Analyst (1-2 years), Sales Operations Coordinator / Specialist (2-3 years) and Finance Analyst (with Sales Focus) (2-4 years). Times vary with prior experience.

Where can a Sales Performance Analyst progress to?

This role can lead on to Senior Sales Performance Analyst (L3) (2-3 years from this role) and Sales Operations Manager (L4/L5) (3-5 years from this role), depending on the skills you build.

What level is a Sales Performance Analyst in the UK?

This role aligns to RQF Level 3 on the UK framework, a guide to the depth of qualification it maps to, not a hard entry bar.

What new skills matter most for a Sales Performance Analyst?

Increasingly, Data Storytelling & Narrative Building. These are the areas where the higher-paid, future-proof work is heading.

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

Most of them were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.

There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.

And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.

What it costs

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

A single career-coaching hour costs more than a month of this, and it ends when the hour does. Zavmo doesn't. It's £70 a month, about £2.30 a day, for a companion that knows a Sales Performance Analyst, works on the job you actually do, and keeps going at your pace rather than a timetable's.

Searching and planning stay free. You only pay when you start learning.
Your credits are yours. Regulated, and they don't vanish when a subscription ends.
Cancel any time and billing stops. No notice period, no minimum term.

Your path, personalised

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.

This route runs to 9 national skill standards. That is a real journey.

Zavmo shapes a learning experience as unique as you are. It fits how you learn, your pace and the work you already do. Every step stays benchmarked to recognised national standards. That’s the plan for becoming a Sales Performance Analyst: personal to you, and it still counts. The first steps are free.

Independent research finds well-designed intelligent tutoring performs nearly as well as one-to-one human tutoring: VanLehn (2011), Educational Psychologist.

A private tutor in the UK averages £35–40 an hour . Zavmo is £70/month.

A Zavmo curriculum screen: a three-month plan of nine units, ninety credits, each one an Ofqual-regulated unit the learner can tick or untick before starting. — A real plan on learn.zavmo.ai: Ofqual-regulated units, credits, and a three-month run at your own pace.

Start free No commitment. See your first steps free.

15Where to go from here

Other roles at Level 3

Same depth of qualification, different job. Useful if the work appeals but this particular role does not.

Other roles in Sales

Stay in the field you know and move sideways rather than up.

If you leave this industry

The analytical skills you'll build in this role are highly transferable. You could move into similar performance analysis roles in Marketing, Customer Success, Finance, or even broader Business Intelligence functions within other industries. The ability to translate data into actionable insights is valuable everywhere.

Not sure this is the right direction?

Work out what you actually want from work first, then come back and see which roles fit it. Takes about ten minutes.

You're not behind. You're right on time. The shift is only just beginning. Your role won't look the same in two years. Be the one who leads the change, not the one it happens to. Build my plan, free Here's the first ten minutes: a 2-minute confidence check → your personalised roadmap → meet the tutors matched to you. No card, cancel any time. No card. Build your plan, see your roadmap and meet the twelve tutors matched to you. All free. When you're ready to start learning, it's £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.

Sales Performance Analyst

What's rising in its place

Data Storytelling & Narrative Building

Skills this role draws on

Technical

How you actually get there, here

Junior Data Analyst / Associate Sales Analyst

Sales Operations Coordinator / Specialist

Finance Analyst (with Sales Focus)

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

Roles this leads to

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

A conversation, not a course

No two people run this the same way

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

Everything else the record holds

The career path, and where it branches

Senior Sales Performance Analyst (L3)

Sales Operations Manager (L4/L5)

Where AI is starting to help

CRM Data Janitor

Predictive Forecaster Assistant

Market & Competitor Scout

QBR Narrative Generator

Common questions

You’ve started things before

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.