Senior Manager, Salesforce Professional Services

CDW; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus 35%

Benefits overview

AI-fluent organization culture

Job summary

CDW is hiring a Senior Manager for Salesforce Professional Services in the United States. You will lead the strategy, development, and execution of a large Salesforce services portfolio, aligning Sales, Solution Architects, and Services to deliver financial and customer outcomes.

You will build executive relationships, drive revenue and utilization, and govern engagements across Salesforce consulting, implementation, and managed services, while mentoring leaders and expanding the services

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required with 10+ years of enterprise Salesforce delivery experience or 14+ years with 3+ years managerial experience.
• Proven ability to lead teams, gain consensus, and resolve client/project challenges.
• Strong negotiation, collaboration with Sales and leadership, and cross-functional influence.
• Excellent written, presentation, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage ambiguity, change, risk, and drive results at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Salesforce Professional Services practice, delivering financial, operational, and customer outcomes.
• Drive revenue, pipeline growth, forecasting, and capacity management across teams.
• Build executive relationships with customers, Salesforce, and partners; act as trusted advisor.
• Set operating rhythms, governance, and performance tracking for the service line.
• Coach and develop managers, architects, consultants, and engineers to advance careers.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic planning

Executive stakeholder management

Negotiation skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication (written, verbal)

Change management

Risk management

Team development

Prioritization & workload planning

Education

Bachelor's degree

Salesforce certifications (a plus)

Tools

Salesforce

Sales Cloud

Service Cloud

Job description

Job Summary The Senior Manager - Salesforce Professional Services leads the strategy, development, and execution of technology services within a defined portfolio. This role serves as a business, sales, and solutions leader, driving alignment across Sales, Solution Architects, and Services teams while ensuring operational excellence and achievement of financial, customer, and coworker outcomes. What you will do Lead the Salesforce Professional Services practice, achieving financial, operational, customer satisfaction, and coworker development goals. Drive revenue, profitability, pipeline growth, forecasting, utilization, and strategic planning while partnering with Sales, Solution Architects, and Services teams to identify, shape, and close strategic opportunities. Build executive relationships with customers, Salesforce, and key partners, serving as a trusted advisor and executive sponsor across customer meetings, solution development, proposal reviews, sales pursuits, and C-suite discussions. Establish effective operating rhythms for business reviews, workforce planning, forecasting, capacity management, and performance tracking. Lead, coach, mentor, and develop managers, architects, consultants, engineers, and project leaders through certification programs, career development, succession planning, and leadership development initiatives. Strengthen relationships with Salesforce and strategic partners to align resources, capabilities, and growth objectives while fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, customer focus, and continuous improvement. Provide executive oversight of Salesforce consulting, implementation, integration, and managed services engagements through strong governance, resource planning, risk management, financial controls, and clear customer communication. Own customer satisfaction, loyalty, and business outcomes across strategic enterprise engagements, and lead resolution of complex customer, delivery, operational, and commercial issues. Define and evolve the Salesforce services portfolio by launching new offerings, retiring legacy services, and developing reusable methodologies and accelerators. Expand customer adoption of existing and emerging Salesforce technologies while driving long-term growth and service innovation.

What we expect of you Bachelor’s degree required and 10+ years of experience delivering large scale, enterprise-class technical Salesforce solutions including planning, development, implementation and support, including 3 years managerial experience OR, 14+ years of work experience delivering large scale, enterprise-class technical Salesforce solutions including planning, development, implementation and support, including 3 years managerial experience. Ability to lead teams and gain consensus. Ability to identify and resolve client, project, and team challenges. Poven negotiation skills. Experience working with vendors and business partners. Strong collaboration with Sales and leadership teams to achieve service goals. Ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams. Excellent written, presentation, and verbal communication skills. Demonstrated ability to build relationships across all levels of the organization. Ability to manage ambiguity, change, and risk effectively. Demonstrated success leading teams to deliver critical results. Ability to prioritize and manage workload in a fast‑paced environment. Ability to develop long-range plans for complex initiatives. Experience leading a Salesforce consulting or professional services practice. Salesforce certifications, a plus. Experience managing Salesforce partner relationships and alliance programs. Expertise across Salesforce Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Data Cloud, Industry Clouds, and Managed Services offerings.

Pay range: $140,150 - $185,000 depending on experience and skill set Annual bonus target of 35% subject to terms and conditions of plan Benefits overview: https://cdw.benefit-info.com/ Salary ranges may be subject to geographic differentials CDW is committed to being an AI-fluent organization As a leader, you will champion and be accountable for our vision of becoming an AI-fluent organization. We expect leaders to model curiosity, encourage responsible AI adoption, and foster a culture of continuous learning. You don’t need deep technical expertise, but you should be comfortable exploring how AI can enhance strategy, decision‑making, and team performance. Your role includes guiding others in building confidence and capability with AI tools and practices, while promoting openness to experimentation and shared learning. Additionally CDW is committed to fostering an equitable, transparent, and respectful hiring process for all applicants. During our application process, our goal is to understand your experience, strengths, skills, and qualifications. As an AI forward company, we see AI not just as a tool, but as a catalyst for new ways of thinking, creating, and communicating. We encourage candidates to embrace an AI mindset, one that’s curious, adaptive, and ready to explore what’s possible. We welcome thoughtful use of AI to expand your perspective and elevate how you share your story, while ensuring your application remains rooted in your own background, judgment, and voice.

About Us CDW is a Fortune 500 technology solutions provider that helps businesses, government, education, and healthcare organizations achieve what’s possible through technology. What makes CDW different isn’t just what we do—it’s how we do it. At CDW we act as one-building trust, speaking candidly, and working together to achieve more. We play to win - focusing on what matters most and delivering for our customers. And we think forward - staying curious, moving fast, and continuously learning. We believe meaningful work happens when people feel supported, heard, and empowered to contribute. That’s why we think of ourselves as coworkers, not just employees - working together to solve complex challenges and deliver real impact for our customers and communities. As a full-stack, full-lifecycle technology partner, CDW brings deep expertise, strong relationships, and broad industry knowledge to help turn ideas into outcomes. When you join CDW, you become part of a collaborative environment where your work matters, your growth is supported, and your contributions help shape what’s next. Together, we deliver the full promise of what technology can do. Together, we Make Amazing Happen.

CDW is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by state and local law. At CDW, we make technology work so people can do great things.

We are a leading multi-brand technology solutions provider to business, government, education and healthcare customers in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. Our coworkers across the globe are working together to bring technology to life for our customers by solving complicated IT business challenges, providing outstanding service, and orchestrating the technology landscape to optimize our customers’ performance.