Sales Operations Manager

Description

About Gapstars

About Gapstars

At Gapstars, we partner with some of Europe’s most ambitious tech companies from disruptive startups to fast-scaling scale-ups, helping them build high-performing remote engineering teams.

Headquartered in the Netherlands, with talent hubs in Sri Lanka and Portugal, we are home to 275+ engineers who thrive on solving real-world challenges with modern technologies. Our teams work across domains, from networking and marketplaces to SaaS and AI delivering scalable solutions that drive meaningful outcomes.

If you’re looking for a company that combines technical excellence, strong culture, and room to grow, welcome to Gapstars.

Purpose of the role

The Sales Operations Manager is responsible for enabling data-driven commercial execution across the organisation and supporting scalable sales expansion into new labels and countries. Bullhorn is a key enabling tool within this setup.

The role also ensures strong alignment between what Sales sells and what the organisation can deliver, while actively feeding back where innovation, capability development or changes in positioning are required.

You own the commercial system, the data, and the operating rhythm that connects Sales, Marketing and Operations.

The Role

Sales Operations Manager

Requirements

Core responsibilities

Commercial systems & tooling

  • End-to-end ownership of Bullhorn for Sales and Accounts

  • Drive adoption, correct usage and high data quality

  • Translate sales reality into effective system processes

  • Ensure Bullhorn is the single source of truth for pipeline, forecasting and performance

  • Coordinate with IT and external partners on continuous improvement

Data-driven commercial execution

  • Own dashboards, reporting and forecasting

  • Provide actionable insights on pipeline health, conversion, velocity and bottlenecks

  • Improve forecast accuracy and commercial predictability

  • Enable commercial leadership to steer based on data rather than assumptions

Sales rhythm and discipline

  • Own the commercial cadence (pipeline reviews, forecasts, performance reviews)

  • Enforce pipeline hygiene, clear next steps and ownership

  • Bring structure where execution risks becoming ad hoc

Alignment between Sales, Marketing and Operations

  • Ensure what Sales sells is structurally aligned with existing delivery capabilities

  • Translate sales data and market feedback into concrete input for Marketing

  • Help Operations understand commercial demand patterns, priorities and timing

  • Build tight feedback loops across teams to avoid misalignment

Innovation and capability feedback

  • Identify gaps between commercial promises and organisational capabilities early

  • Translate sales signals and client feedback into clear improvement or innovation proposals

  • Support leadership in deciding whether changes are required in Sales positioning, delivery capabilities or both

New labels and new countries enablement

  • Support the commercial setup of new labels and markets

  • Design and implement scalable sales processes, tooling and reporting for new teams

  • Support onboarding of new sales hires in new geographies

  • Ensure consistent ways of working across countries and labels

Profile

  • Senior experience in Sales Operations or Revenue Operations

  • Proven track record in building data-driven commercial execution

  • Strong analytical mindset combined with hands-on execution

  • Comfortable challenging Sales, Marketing and Operations

  • Experience supporting commercial expansion across teams, labels or geographies

  • Naturally operates with authority based on expertise, not hierarchy

Why this role matters

This role exists to:

  • Enable data-driven sales execution

  • Ensure commercial promises match organisational reality

  • Provide structured input for innovation and capability development

  • Support scalable growth into new labels and countries

  • Align Sales, Marketing and Operations around facts, not assumptions

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