Senior Vendor Manager, Smb Sales

OpenAI OpenAI · AI Frontier · Singapore · Marketing

This role is for a Senior Vendor Manager focused on SMB Sales at OpenAI. The primary responsibility is to manage and drive performance of outsourced SMB sales vendors, ensuring consistency, quality, and speed in sales execution. The role involves inspecting funnel health, identifying root causes of performance issues, holding vendor leaders accountable, and implementing corrective action plans. It requires a strong understanding of sales funnel metrics and experience in scaled sales operations, particularly with outsourced vendors in a high-velocity commercial environment. While the company is OpenAI, this role is in sales operations and vendor management, not directly building or researching AI.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own regional and site-level vendor performance across assigned regions, vendors, and sales motions
  2. Drive attainment against revenue, pipeline, productivity, conversion, quality, and forecast accuracy targets
  3. Inspect funnel health and identifying whether performance issues are driven by quality, speed, routing, enablement, staffing, tooling, or execution
  4. Run high-quality WBRs, MBRs, QBRs, scorecards, governance forums, and corrective action plans with vendor partners
  5. Hold vendor leadership accountable for frontline management, coaching, staffing, execution discipline, and measurable improvement

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of experience in vendor management, sales operations, scaled sales execution, BPO leadership, commercial operations, or related roles
  • Direct experience managing outsourced sales or revenue-generating vendor operations at scale
  • Experience operating in software, SaaS, cloud, ads, or another high-velocity commercial environment
  • Experience working with Tier 1 outsourced sales providers
  • Strong understanding of sales funnel metrics, conversion, pipeline quality, productivity, forecast accuracy, QA, ramp, and readiness
  • Proven ability to influence senior vendor leaders and internal cross-functional stakeholders while driving accountability through data, operating rhythm, and action plans

What the JD emphasized

  • performance operator
  • managed large-scale outsourced sales operations
  • drive performance through vendor partners
  • inspect quality
  • improve forecasting
  • hold vendor leaders accountable
  • build repeatable operating mechanisms
  • diagnosing funnel issues
  • identifying root causes
  • challenging vendor leadership
  • creating corrective action plans
  • regional execution meets a high global standard
  • sharing best practices
  • performance targets
  • funnel health
  • performance issues
  • frontline management
  • measurable improvement
  • global standards
  • readiness requirements
  • performance signals
  • sales leadership
  • vendor management
  • sales operations
  • scaled sales execution
  • outsourced sales or revenue-generating vendor operations at scale
  • high-velocity commercial environment
  • Tier 1 outsourced sales providers
  • sales funnel metrics
  • pipeline quality
  • forecast accuracy
  • ramp
  • readiness
  • influence senior vendor leaders
  • internal cross-functional stakeholders
  • driving accountability