Jobs · Business Development · Texas

Senior Manager, Sales Operations – Data Center

Black Box · Plano, TX · Yesterday
Business DevelopmentFull-time

Role Summary

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 quarter on quarter basis, including commits, upside, risk, and funnel health.
  • Manage and analyze Salesforce data to ensure accurate reporting, clean opportunity tracking, and concise executive-ready dashboards.
  • Track and report on pipeline movement, bookings, revenue, sales productivity, and conversion rates across defined sales stages.
  • Help standardize and train the sales team on proper usage of sales stages to improve forecast reliability.
  • Slice and dice pipeline and revenue data to identify risks, gaps, trends, and areas for sales execution improvement.
  • Serve as a trusted operational partner to senior sales leadership by providing timely visibility into book of revenue, active opportunities, and forecast movement.
  • Collaborate with Revenue Operations, Finance, Sales, and Delivery teams to ensure alignment between forecast, bookings, revenue recognition, and operational capacity.
  • Identify process gaps and implement improvements to 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 Data Center, colocation, hyperscale, infrastructure, technology services, low voltage, cabling, networking, or related sales teams.
  • Advanced Salesforce experience, including dashboards, reports, opportunity management, forecasting, and pipeline analysis.
  • Strong understanding of sales forecasting, commits, upside, pipeline stages, sales cycles, bookings, and revenue tracking.
  • Ability to analyze complex data and translate it into clear business insights for sales leadership.
  • Experience supporting quota-carrying sales teams and improving CRM discipline.
  • Experience required with salesforce or related CRM tool.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to work cross-functionally with Sales, Finance, Operations, and Executive Leadership.
  • Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or MS preferred.

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