Service Delivery Manager, Professional Services

About the role

The Service Delivery Manager, Professional Services is responsible for managing end to end service delivery execution and supporting customer outcomes across an assigned sales region. This is a highly visible, customer facing role accountable for delivery quality, consistency, and successful outcomes, while partnering closely with Sales, Customer Success, and cross functional stakeholders. This role operates with ownership and accountability, demonstrating strong execution skills, curiosity, and a desire to continuously improve delivery outcomes. The Service Delivery Manager focuses on operational excellence, structured execution, and cross functional coordination, working effectively within a matrixed, shared resource environment. The ideal candidate is a hands on delivery leader who enjoys solving complex delivery challenges, influencing without authority, and driving predictable outcomes in a fast paced, high growth organization.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage Professional Services delivery execution for an assigned sales region, ensuring alignment with customer requirements and internal commitments
• Serve as the Service Delivery Manager for Professional Services engagements, ensuring quality, consistency, and successful outcomes
• Act as the primary point of coordination across delivery teams, partners, and internal stakeholders in a matrixed organization
• Drive resolution of complex delivery challenges by bringing structure, clarity, and cross functional alignment
• Coordinate project delivery using a shared resource model, partnering with peer delivery leaders and functional managers to support utilization and staffing needs
• Monitor workloads, delivery coverage, and skill alignment across active engagements, escalating risks and constraints as appropriate
• Track, analyze, and report on key performance indicators related to delivery effectiveness, quality, and customer satisfaction
• Identify delivery risks, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities, and partner with leadership to address them
• Apply and reinforce established delivery frameworks, best practices, and technical standards to ensure predictable outcomes
• Participate in continuous improvement activities, including delivery reviews, lessons learned, and corrective actions
• Partner with Sales and Account Management to support pre sales activities, deployment planning, and customer onboarding
• Engage with customer stakeholders to support satisfaction, retention, and successful adoption of Proofpoint solutions
• Collaborate with subject matter experts to support evolving technical and digital delivery capabilities