Senior Manager Sales Operations

Senior Manager of Sales Operations

The Company is one of North America’s leading sales and marketing agencies specializing in outsourced sales, merchandising, category management and marketing services to manufacturers, suppliers and producers of food products and consumer packaged goods. The Company services a variety of trade channels including grocery, mass merchandise, specialty, convenience, drug, dollar, club, hardware, consumer electronics and home centers. We bridge the gap between manufacturers and retailers, providing consumers access to the best products available in the marketplace today.

The Senior Manager of Sales Operations plays a critical leadership role overseeing large cross-functional projects from conception through completion. This position requires collaboration with global field operations, sales teams, and internal staff to drive results in a dynamic, team-oriented culture.

The Senior Manager leads complex project planning, implementation, tracking, and delivery, owning full accountability for scope, budget, resource allocation, timelines, and milestones. Strong organizational skills to juggle multiple priorities are essential.

Leveraging robust project management disciplines, the Senior Manager coordinates cross-functional teams to execute projects, while ensuring consistency with company strategy and goals. This hands-on leadership role manages risks and issues to solution, while optimizing resources.

The Senior Manager brings superior communication skills to facilitate project updates, milestone reviews, and clear status reporting across global stakeholders. Success requires the ability to adapt project plans and team leadership to meet changing business needs.

Position Summary
The Senior Manager of Sales Operations plays a critical leadership role overseeing large cross-functional projects from conception through completion. This position requires collaboration with global field operations, sales teams, and internal staff to drive results in a dynamic, team-oriented culture.

The Senior Manager leads complex project planning, implementation, tracking, and delivery, owning full accountability for scope, budget, resource allocation, timelines, and milestones. Strong organizational skills to juggle multiple priorities are essential.

Leveraging robust project management disciplines, the Senior Manager coordinates cross-functional teams to execute projects, while ensuring consistency with company strategy and goals. This hands-on leadership role manages risks and issues to solution, while optimizing resources.

The Senior Manager brings superior communication skills to facilitate project updates, milestone reviews, and clear status reporting across global stakeholders. Success requires the ability to adapt project plans and team leadership to meet changing business needs.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities
• Lead planning and execution of large cross-functional projects

• Define project tasks and resource requirements

• Build project teams, assign roles, and provide leadership/quality assurance

• Develop and manage overall project plans and milestone schedules; ensure coordination between multiple projects

• Track project deliverable; monitor project risks and issues

• Lead key project meetings – conduct team status meetings and team status schedule.

• Route materials to approving departments

• Manages third party contract/supplier operational relationships

• Ensure optimization of resources and enforce the use of company programs 

Supervisory Responsibilities

Direct Reports
- Hires, retains, trains, coaches, guides, directs, and develops direct reports using company-wide processes, tools and resources

Indirect Reports
- May delegate work of others and provide guidance, direction and mentoring to indirect reports

Travel and/or Driving Requirements
- Travel and Driving are not essential duties or functions of this job

Minimum Qualifications Minimum Qualifications
Education Level: (Required): Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience

Field of Study/Area of Experience: Marketing / Communications

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:
• Excellent written communication and verbal communication skills, communication changes, recap meeting notes, create and ensure a smooth project flow
• Good interpersonal skills
• Strong prioritization skills
• Decision making skills
• Ability to understand and follow specific instructions and procedures
• Ability to exercise sound judgment
• Ability to work effectively with management
• Ability to visualize and plan objectives and goals strategically
• Well-organized, detail-oriented, and able to handle a fast-paced work environment
• Flexible and adaptable, able to change and alter according to changes in projects or business environment
• Ability to work independently and prioritize duties with minimal supervision, in order to meet deadlines
• Solid computer skills including familiarity with Microsoft suite: Teams, PowerPoint. Word, Excel, Outlook

Job Will Remain Open Until Filled

The Company is one of North America’s leading sales and marketing agencies specializing in outsourced sales, merchandising, category management and marketing services to manufacturers, suppliers and producers of food products and consumer packaged goods. The Company services a variety of trade channels including grocery, mass merchandise, specialty, convenience, drug, dollar, club, hardware, consumer electronics and home centers. We bridge the gap between manufacturers and retailers, providing consumers access to the best products available in the marketplace today.

Position Summary
The Senior Manager of Sales Operations plays a critical leadership role overseeing large cross-functional projects from conception through completion. This position requires collaboration with global field operations, sales teams, and internal staff to drive results in a dynamic, team-oriented culture.

The Senior Manager leads complex project planning, implementation, tracking, and delivery, owning full accountability for scope, budget, resource allocation, timelines, and milestones. Strong organizational skills to juggle multiple priorities are essential.

Leveraging robust project management disciplines, the Senior Manager coordinates cross-functional teams to execute projects, while ensuring consistency with company strategy and goals. This hands-on leadership role manages risks and issues to solution, while optimizing resources.

The Senior Manager brings superior communication skills to facilitate project updates, milestone reviews, and clear status reporting across global stakeholders. Success requires the ability to adapt project plans and team leadership to meet changing business needs.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities
• Lead planning and execution of large cross-functional projects

• Define project tasks and resource requirements

• Build project teams, assign roles, and provide leadership/quality assurance

• Develop and manage overall project plans and milestone schedules; ensure coordination between multiple projects

• Track project deliverable; monitor project risks and issues

• Lead key project meetings – conduct team status meetings and team status schedule.

• Route materials to approving departments

• Manages third party contract/supplier operational relationships

• Ensure optimization of resources and enforce the use of company programs 

Supervisory Responsibilities

Direct Reports
- Hires, retains, trains, coaches, guides, directs, and develops direct reports using company-wide processes, tools and resources

Indirect Reports
- May delegate work of others and provide guidance, direction and mentoring to indirect reports

Travel and/or Driving Requirements
- Travel and Driving are not essential duties or functions of this job

Minimum Qualifications Minimum Qualifications
Education Level: (Required): Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience

Field of Study/Area of Experience: Marketing / Communications

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:
• Excellent written communication and verbal communication skills, communication changes, recap meeting notes, create and ensure a smooth project flow
• Good interpersonal skills
• Strong prioritization skills
• Decision making skills
• Ability to understand and follow specific instructions and procedures
• Ability to exercise sound judgment
• Ability to work effectively with management
• Ability to visualize and plan objectives and goals strategically
• Well-organized, detail-oriented, and able to handle a fast-paced work environment
• Flexible and adaptable, able to change and alter according to changes in projects or business environment
• Ability to work independently and prioritize duties with minimal supervision, in order to meet deadlines
• Solid computer skills including familiarity with Microsoft suite: Teams, PowerPoint. Word, Excel, Outlook

Environmental & Physical Requirements

Office / Sedentary Requirements
Incumbent must be able to perform the essential functions of the job. Work is performed primarily in an office environment. Typically requires the ability to sit for extended periods of time (66%+ each day), ability to hear the telephone, ability to enter data on a computer and may also require the ability to lift up to 10 pounds.

Additional Information Regarding Advantage Solutions Job Duties and Job Descriptions
Job duties include additional responsibilities as assigned by one’s supervisor or other manager related to the position/department. This job description is meant to describe the general nature and level of work being performed; it is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required for the position. The Company reserves the right at any time with or without notice to alter or change job responsibilities, reassign or transfer job position or assign additional job responsibilities, subject to applicable law. The Company shall provide reasonable accommodations of known disabilities to enable a qualified applicant or employee to apply for employment, perform the essential functions of the job, or enjoy the benefits and privileges of employment as required by the law.

Any estimate, schedule, or guideline provided to associates in this job description or elsewhere in connection with their jobs is only intended to help describe job duties and for planning purposes. Regardless of any such estimate, schedule, or guideline, associates must always record all time worked for our company (which includes but is not limited to on-site work time in an assigned store, office, or other work location; required waiting time; administrative time; and work-related travel time).

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of associates so classified.

The Company is committed to providing equal opportunity in all employment practices without regard to age, race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, religion, physical or mental disability, or any other category protected by law. As part of this commitment, the Company shall provide reasonable accommodations of known disabilities to enable an applicant or employee to apply for employment, perform the essential functions of the job, or enjoy the benefits and privileges of employment as required by the law.