Senior Manager, Salesforce Professional Services

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

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Job summary

CDW is seeking a Senior Manager - Salesforce Professional Services to lead strategy, development, and execution of technology services within a defined portfolio. This role serves as a business, sales, and solutions leader, aligning Sales, Solution Architects, and Services teams while ensuring operational excellence and outcome achievement.

The position requires 10+ years delivering large-scale Salesforce solutions, including 3 years in management, and a track record of building executive

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required with 10+ years delivering enterprise Salesforce solutions including planning, development, implementation and support, with 3 years in a managerial role.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and driving strategic initiatives in a services context.
• Salesforce certifications are a plus and vendor partnership experience is valued.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Salesforce Professional Services practice to achieve financial, operational, customer satisfaction, and coworker development goals.
• Drive revenue, profitability, pipeline growth, forecasting, utilization, and strategic planning with cross-functional teams.
• Build executive relationships with customers, Salesforce, and partners as trusted advisor across meetings and reviews.
• Establish operating rhythms for business reviews, workforce planning, forecasting, capacity management, and performance tracking.
• Coach and develop managers, architects, consultants, engineers, and project leaders through certification and career programs.
• Strengthen relationships with Salesforce and partners to align resources and growth objectives with a culture of accountability and collaboration.
• Provide executive oversight of consulting, implementation, integration, and managed services engagements with governance and clear communication.
• Own customer satisfaction and business outcomes across enterprise engagements and lead resolution of complex issues.
• Define and evolve the Salesforce services portfolio with new offerings and reusable accelerators.
• Expand adoption of Salesforce technologies and drive long-term growth and service innovation.

Skills

Salesforce

Executive leadership

Strategic planning

Forecasting

Cross-functional leadership

Vendor management

Client relationship building

Business development

Solutions leadership

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Salesforce Sales Cloud

Salesforce Service Cloud

Salesforce Experience Cloud

Salesforce Data Cloud

Salesforce Industry Clouds

Salesforce Managed Services

Job description

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-its how we do it. At CDW we act as one-building trust, speaking candidly, and working together to achieve more. 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.

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.