Presales Operations Manager

What success looks like in this role:

Work Intake and Deal Coordination

• Manage intake of qualified and early-stage opportunities

• Confirm GDS requirements and expectations with requesting teams

• Represent GDS in deal qualification discussions when required

• Classify and track deals in the central tracker

• Escalate gaps in deal qualification

• Act as gatekeeper for incoming presales work, ensuring requests are properly qualified and information is complete

• Challenge incomplete requests and clarify expectations before engaging Solution Architects

Pipeline, Tracker Ownership and Reporting

• Maintain the Deal Tracker and Presales Planner

• Track deal status, ownership, blockers, and artefact readiness

• Maintain visibility of SA workload and deal flow

• Produce weekly capacity snapshots highlighting workload, risks, and resourcing gaps

• Support backlog reviews and pipeline hygiene

• Summarise operational risks when relevant

Coordination and Governance

• Maintain and update the Loopio collateral tracker and response plan

• Identify content gaps and coordinate updates

• Complete Loopio responses where appropriate

• Monitor upcoming Solution Validation Reviews (SVR)

• Confirm GDS attendance

• Identify preparation requirements

• Flag missing artefacts

• Coordinate Strategic Solutions team meetings when required

• Schedule meetings

• Draft agendas

• Capture actions and track follow-ups

Team Support

• Track follow-ups from Simon’s 1:1 meetings with Solution Architects

• Maintain and update the Book of Business (BoB)

• Support coordination across the SA team on active opportunities

• Assist with workload planning and coverage

Operational Administration

• Perform weekly hygiene checks across SharePoint repositories

• Maintain folder structure, naming conventions, and version control

• Archive outdated material

• Perform Salesforce hygiene checks

• Ensure GDS offerings are correctly tagged

• Validate SA ownership

• Identify stage or naming inconsistencies

• Maintain clean and structured repositories for presales artefacts

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You will be successful in this role if you have:

Organisation and Workflow Management

• Highly organised, structured, and reliable

• Able to manage multiple workstreams and follow up consistently

• Strong prioritisation and organisational discipline

• Comfortable escalating when progress stalls

Tools and Systems

• Strong Excel or Smartsheet capability (filters, formulas, conditional formatting)

• Confident using SharePoint, Teams, PowerPoint, and Planner

• Comfortable using Power BI and Salesforce for reporting and data validation

• Familiarity with Loopio or similar RFP response platforms desirable

Communication and Interpersonal

• Comfortable engaging with people at all levels of the organisation

• Polite but firm when requesting information or chasing actions

• Able to manage expectations clearly and diplomatically

• Strong verbal and written communication

• Able to summarise complex information clearly

Work Style and Personal Traits

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

• A confident and proactive personality capable of getting things done

• Strong follow-through and persistence when chasing inputs or actions

• The ability to challenge incomplete requests and ask the right questions

• Focus and discipline in managing a busy workflow

• Ability to cut through noise and maintain priorities

• Professional judgement balancing diplomacy with firmness

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