Director – International Revenue Operations
Company | Cengage Group |
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Location | Massachusetts, USA, Ohio, USA |
Salary | $160000 – $180000 |
Type | Full-Time |
Degrees | |
Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Minimum 8 years of experience in Revenue Operations, Sales Operations, or Business Operations, ideally in a global SaaS or digital education environment.
- Proven track record of building and scaling RevOps capabilities across multiple regions or business units.
- Deep expertise in Salesforce CRM and SAP integration; familiarity with data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI) and data modeling.
- Strong leadership and change management skills, comfortable working in a complex, matrixed organization.
- Proven success in process improvement, forecasting, pipeline analysis, and GTM alignment.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across executive, regional, and functional teams.
- Experience working in international markets and multicultural environments is a strong advantage.
Responsibilities
- Establish a global RevOps charter aligned to business goals: forecast accuracy, pipeline health, and GTM scalability.
- Define and track KPIs: forecast accuracy %, pipeline coverage, time-to-close, regional adoption, and data integrity.
- Conduct a global diagnostic to assess current data systems, forecasting, and sales operations.
- Deliver a gap analysis highlighting data silos, tech limitations, and process inconsistencies.
- Partner with Enterprise Analytics team to consolidate customer and sales data into a centralized, trusted system; and define taxonomies, owner roles, update cadences, and audit mechanisms for data governance.
- Partner with Sales to design opportunity stages, forecasting cadences, and review workflows.
- Build automations, dashboards, and validations within Salesforce to support regional and global needs.
- Redesign processes from lead to cash, optimizing for scalability and system alignment.
- Produce globally standardized (yet locally adaptable) playbooks and process maps.
- Use a network of regional RevOps Business Partners to localize strategy and ensure execution fidelity.
- Train and support regional partners to drive adoption and surface field insights.
- Launch global cadences for forecast reviews, pipeline health checks, and data audits.
- Create a centralized hub for training, documentation, and team collaboration.
- Validate ongoing data quality and Salesforce/SAP tool usage.
- Lead retrospectives and backlog grooming sessions to continuously improve RevOps effectiveness.
- Regularly report RevOps contributions to growth through KPIs such as improved forecast accuracy, faster time-to-close, and higher system adoption.
- Deliver quarterly updates to executive stakeholders that showcase measurable impact.
Preferred Qualifications
- Salesforce Admin/Developer certification preferred
- Experience in EdTech, publishing, or education-focused SaaS preferred
- Exposure to Lean/Six Sigma methodologies preferred