Senior Manager, Order Management

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · Seattle, WA

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Manager of Global Order Management to lead a team responsible for executing and booking complex, high-dollar deals. This role involves cross-functional collaboration with various operations and finance teams, managing peak volumes, ensuring compliance with SOX standards, and driving process improvements within the order-to-cash lifecycle. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership, operational, and communication skills, with experience in order management and complex enterprise deal structures.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead and Develop: Manage, mentor, and coach a global team of Order Management professionals responsible for processing and booking complex, high-dollar transactions.
  2. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner extensively with Sales Operations, Quote to Cash, Product Operations, Legal, Revenue Recognition, and Deal Desk to resolve deal friction and ensure accurate, compliant execution.
  3. Manage Peak Volumes: Drive operational excellence and team performance during critical high-volume periods, orchestrating smooth operations during busy month-end, quarter-end, and fiscal year-end closes.
  4. Ensure Compliance: Maintain strict adherence to company policies, revenue recognition guidelines, and compliance standards (SOX) for all booked opportunities.
  5. Drive Process Improvement: Identify bottlenecks within the order-to-cash lifecycle and collaborate with internal stakeholders to design and implement scalable, efficient operational solutions.

Skills

Required

  • 4+ years of direct leadership and people management experience, preferably on the operations side of the business (e.g., Business Operations, Sales Operations, or Order Management).
  • Deep understanding of Order Management processes, Quote-to-Cash (Q2C) lifecycles, and complex enterprise deal structures.
  • Proven ability to excel in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment, consistently delivering accuracy while managing tight deadlines—especially during quarter and year-end close cycles.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; ability to articulate complex operational issues verbally and in writing, and a willingness to appropriately debate difficult issues.
  • Track record of successfully partnering with diverse finance and operations functions (Legal, Rev Rec, Deal Desk, etc.) to achieve common goals.
  • Extreme attention to detail with an ability to work independently, demonstrate initiative, and guide a team through ambiguity.
  • Capacity to identify and understand broader business and financial issues from an end-user’s perspective.

Nice to have

  • Advanced proficiency with Salesforce products, specifically Salesforce CPQ and core CRM functionalities.
  • Experience managing global operations or leading teams across multiple time zones.
  • Familiarity with enterprise-level financial systems, contract lifecycle management, and order routing tools.
  • Experience with Tableau strongly preferred.

What the JD emphasized

  • SOX