About the Role
The Operational Readiness Manager leads global, regional, and functional operational readiness changes and integrations for recent acquisitions, ensuring a common approach to commercial, packaging, and pricing processes across the enterprise with a focus on simplification. This role also leads operational systems readiness for product divestitures and acquisitions, establishing guidelines and processes within TR’s system infrastructure to seamlessly translate strategic packaging and pricing configurations into TR's billing, ordering, and technology systems with zero operational disruption to the order-to-cash cycle. This position requires close collaboration with various departments and the ability to react with speed and agility in an evolving world, managing changing timelines, multiple priorities, deliverables, and uncertainty. Strong commercial thought leadership, business partnership, problem-solving skills, and the capability to influence while building effective relationships across geographically disbursed teams are critical. This position resides in the Revenue Operations & Management organization and reports to the Director of Commercial Transformation and Operations.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute commercial, packaging, and pricing models and strategies, reviewing alignment to current TR Tech Stack with gaps and synergies documented
- Map out short-term and long-term operational workflow including contracting, ordering, entitlement, billing, royalties, etc., addressing documented gaps and driving prioritization of operational activities
- Assist with product/pricing model determination with focus on revenue optimization
- Possess TR subject matter expertise on preferred commercial models and alignment within tech stack capabilities
- Drive simplification and standardization mindset
- Determine relevant stakeholders to involve in the end-to-end operational flow conversations
- Work with team to determine if technology development will be required to support proposed operational model
- Lead conversations in regards to existing customers - if/when to migrate to TR tech stack, if/when to migrate to product/pricing model, if/when to migrate to TR contracts, etc.
- Document Operational Readiness action items and hold team accountable to deliverables and timelines
Requirements
- BA/BS degree required; advanced degree highly desirable
- 5+ years of experience in Lead-to-Cash, Order-to-Cash (OTC), or Quote-to-Cash (QTC) systems implementation and process design
- Direct, hands-on experience working with Salesforce CPQ and SAP billing/ordering infrastructure
- Demonstrated experience mapping complex system workflows, database integrations, and legacy platform migrations
- Strong knowledge of commercial constructs, pricing methodologies, and packaging best practices
- Strong project management skills related to planning and overseeing multiple projects simultaneously from the initial ideation through to completion, adhering to specified timelines and budget
- Proven leadership of results-oriented virtual teams – requiring strong interpersonal skills and team player mindset, partnering with others to develop solutions
- Ability to deploy influencing techniques to drive cross-functional alignment and change across broad audience
- Strong communication and exceptional stakeholder management capabilities
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment of change, with strong organizational and time management skills
- Proficient in use of MS Office Suite
- Knowledge of Order Capture, SAP and Business Objects familiarity is highly preferred
- Knowledge of the TR products and customer landscape a plus
- This is a backend systems, process, and integration-focused role residing in Revenue Operations. This is not a sales enablement, training, or client-facing account management position.
Skills
- Salesforce CPQ
- SAP billing/ordering infrastructure
- System workflows mapping
- Database integrations
- Legacy platform migrations
- Commercial constructs
- Pricing methodologies
- Packaging best practices
- Project management
- Virtual team leadership
- Interpersonal skills
- Team player mindset
- Influencing techniques
- Cross-functional alignment
- Change management
- Communication
- Stakeholder management
- Independent work
- Organizational skills
- Time management
- MS Office Suite
- Order Capture
- SAP
- Business Objects
- TR products
- Customer landscape
Location
- US
- Ontario, Canada
Work Type
- Hybrid Work Model
- Flexible work arrangements
- Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
Experience Level
- 5+ years of experience in Lead-to-Cash, Order-to-Cash (OTC), or Quote-to-Cash (QTC) systems implementation and process design
Education Level
- BA/BS degree required
- Advanced degree highly desirable
Salary/Compensations
- USD $100,100 - $185,900
- CAD $108,000 - $158,000
Benefits
- Flexible vacation
- Two company-wide Mental Health Days off
- Access to the Headspace app
- Retirement savings
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee incentive programs
- Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
- Market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs
- Competitive 401k plan with company match
- Competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Parental leave
- Sabbatical leave
- Optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee
- Optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee
- Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
- Fitness reimbursement
- Access to Employee Assistance Program
- Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee
- Access to 529 Plan
- Commuter benefits
- Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance
- Access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan
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