Senior Sales Operations Manager, Strategic Account Services (sas)

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · Seattle, WA · Sales, Advertising, & Account Management

This role focuses on Sales Operations within Amazon's Strategic Account Services (SAS) organization, aiming to improve the customer experience for Selling Partners. The Senior Sales Operations Manager will lead key functions including lead management, onboarding operations, and systems/automation strategy. A significant part of the role involves defining and executing the automation and AI enablement roadmap, partnering with tech teams to transition from manual operations to scalable, automated workflows. The position also includes defining offshore strategies, owning reporting and feedback mechanisms, and facilitating cross-functional alignment. While the role involves AI enablement and leveraging AI tools, its core function is sales operations and product management, not direct AI/ML model development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own end to end Lead Management Operations, including seller qualification, routing, distribution, and the underlying qualification framework, iterating criteria based on data and outcomes
  2. Own and define the Onboarding Operations framework across the seller lifecycle, including policy for assignment, SLA enforcement, waitlist management, and edge case resolution
  3. Define the Salesforce strategy for seller onboarding, including workflow design, data governance standards, and process automation across teams
  4. Own the automation roadmap, including AI enablement: identify, prioritize, and implement automated workflows (e.g., warm handoffs, flash reporting, lead routing), partnering with Tech teams to pilot and scale as tooling becomes available
  5. Define and execute an offshore strategy for repeatable operational tasks, reducing OpEx while maintaining quality

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of Microsoft Excel experience
  • Experience developing and implementing systems/tools utilized for CRM, variable compensation, revenue reporting, forecasting, Salesforce automation, etc.
  • Experience defining, refining and implementing sales processes, procedures and policies or equivalent
  • Bachelor's degree

Nice to have

  • Experience using Salesforce (or other CRM tool) or BI tools
  • Experience presenting to senior leadership
  • Usage of generative AI tools to enhance workflow efficiency, with a willingness to learn effective prompting and evaluation practices.
  • Ability to recognize opportunities where generative AI could enhance products, workflows, or customer experiences.

What the JD emphasized

  • automation roadmap
  • AI enablement