Senior Manager, Sales Operations – Data Center
Location: Plano, TX, United States
Job Description
Role Summary
The Senior Manager, Sales Operations – Data Center is a highly analytical, execution-focused leader responsible for supporting and optimizing the sales organization across the Data Center business. The role drives forecasting accuracy, Salesforce discipline, pipeline management, sales-stage governance, revenue visibility, and operational reporting.
The ideal candidate has hands-on experience supporting data center, infrastructure, colocation, hyperscale, low-voltage, and structured cabling sales teams. This individual partners with sales leadership to translate pipeline activity into accurate forecasts, actionable insights, and predictable revenue outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and manage sales operations processes for the Data Center business, including pipeline reviews, forecast submissions, sales-stage accuracy, and opportunity hygiene.
- Partner closely with sales leadership to improve forecasting accuracy from quarter to quarter, including commit forecasts, upside opportunities, risks, and funnel health.
- Manage and analyze Salesforce data to maintain accurate reporting, clean opportunity tracking, and concise, executive-ready dashboards.
- Track and report pipeline movement, bookings, revenue, sales productivity, and conversion rates across defined sales stages.
- Standardize sales-stage usage and train the sales team to improve forecast reliability.
- Analyze pipeline and revenue data across multiple dimensions to identify risks, gaps, trends, and opportunities to improve sales execution.
- Support weekly, monthly, and quarterly business reviews with clear reports, insights, and recommendations.
- Serve as a trusted operational partner to senior sales leadership, providing timely visibility into the revenue book, active opportunities, and forecast movement.
- Collaborate with Revenue Operations, Finance, Sales, and Delivery teams to align forecasts, bookings, revenue recognition, and operational capacity.
- Identify process gaps and implement improvements that increase sales efficiency and forecast predictability.
Required Qualifications
- 8–12+ years of experience in Sales Operations, Revenue Operations, Business Operations, or Sales Strategy.
- Strong experience supporting sales teams in data center, colocation, hyperscale, infrastructure, technology services, low-voltage, cabling, networking, or related fields.
- Advanced Salesforce experience, including dashboards, reports, opportunity management, forecasting, and pipeline analysis.
- Strong understanding of sales forecasting, commit forecasts, upside opportunities, pipeline stages, sales cycles, bookings, and revenue tracking.
- Ability to analyze complex data and translate findings into clear business insights for sales leadership.
- Experience supporting quota-carrying sales teams and improving CRM discipline.
- Experience with Salesforce or a related CRM tool is required.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Finance, Operations, and Executive Leadership.
- Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or MS preferred.