A Fractional Sales Operations Manager Who Owns the Numbers, Not Just the CRM

A senior fractional sales operations manager for B2B SaaS, professional services, and PE-backed scale-ups. CRM architecture, forecast accuracy, lead routing, territory design, sales-tech stack rationalization, and the operating cadence that lets the CRO sleep at night.

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A senior fractional sales operations manager for B2B SaaS, professional services, and PE-backed scale-ups

Why teams hire a Chameleon Fractional Sales Operations Manager

Operator who fixes the forecast

Most fractional sales-ops engagements deliver a CRM cleanup and a dashboard. Real sales ops work fixes the forecast accuracy problem the CRO has been hiding: stage definitions, qualification gates, deal-review discipline, late-stage hygiene. The CRM and dashboards are downstream of fixing the operating math.

Sales-tech stack rationalized, not expanded

Most companies have 10-20 sales tools that overlap, conflict, and consume more in license fees than they save in time. Our Sales Ops Managers consolidate the stack against the actual selling motion, kill the redundancies, and choose tools based on operating fit, not vendor relationships.

Lead routing that doesn't leak deals

Most lead-routing systems are quietly broken, leads sit in queues for days, territories conflict, ABM accounts get round-robined to the wrong rep, MQLs disappear into never-touched buckets. We rebuild the routing logic, the SLAs, and the closed-loop monitoring so nothing falls through.

Why hire a Fractional Sales Operations Manager from Chameleon Collective

Fractional Sales Operations Manager is the right call in three shapes: you're Series-B/C with a working sales motion but no senior ops leader and the CRO is the bottleneck on every operational decision; you're between Sales Ops leaders and need senior coverage during the search; or you're going through a transformation (post-PE, post-merger, CRM migration, sales-process rebuild) and need a senior operator to run it. The wrong call is hiring a Fractional Sales Ops Manager when the actual problem is a Sales Director gap.

Forecast accuracy as the first deliverable

Most engagements start with the forecast accuracy problem nobody wants to name. The first 30 days are typically: rebuild stage definitions, install the forecast cadence the CFO can trust, get the late-stage deals honestly visible, and ship the first quarter-end number that holds up to scrutiny. After that, every other improvement compounds.

Sales-tech stack against operating reality

The average B2B SaaS sales team operates 10-20 tools (Salesforce + 4-6 sales-engagement tools + 3-5 prospecting tools + ZoomInfo + dialer + recording + scheduling + signature + analytics). Most overlap, conflict, or duplicate. We audit against the actual selling motion, consolidate, and kill the redundancies. Typical engagement: 30-50% reduction in license fees with zero capability loss.

Lead routing and territory design

Lead-routing systems that worked at 10 reps fall apart at 30. We rebuild the routing logic against the current org shape: round-robin vs. account-ownership conflicts, ABM bypasses for target accounts, territory carve-outs, capacity-based load balancing. The right routing is invisible, leads get to the right rep within the SLA without a manager intervening.

Closed-loop reporting that the CFO can read

Sales reports that the CFO doesn't trust are sales reports that don't inform decisions. We design the reporting from the CFO's vantage point: pipeline by stage with conversion rates, forecast vs. actual cadence, cohort analyses on rep productivity, attribution that survives scrutiny. The CRO and CFO end the engagement looking at the same numbers.

What our Fractional Sales Ops Manager engagements cover

Most fractional sales operations manager engagements bundle four to six streams.

CRM architecture and hygiene, object model, custom field discipline, automation rationalization, data quality programs.
Forecast cadence and discipline, stage definitions, qualification gates, deal-review rituals, forecast-vs-actual cadence, board-level revenue reporting.
Lead routing and territory design, routing rules, SLA design, territory carve-outs, ABM bypasses, capacity-based load balancing.
Sales-tech stack audit and consolidation, license inventory, capability mapping, redundancy elimination, contract renegotiation.
Compensation and quota math, quota setting, OTE structure, accelerator design, SPIFF mechanics, ramp-period exceptions.
Marketing-sales operating contract, MQL/SQL/SAL definitions, lead scoring, joint pipeline goals, attribution.
Sales process and methodology, discovery framework, qualification model (MEDDIC, BANT, custom), mutual action plans.
Reporting and analytics infrastructure, exec dashboards, rep-level scorecards, win-loss program, cohort analyses.

How We Compare

Feature	Chameleon Fractional Sales Ops Manager	Sales-ops agency / consultancy	Full-time Sales Ops Manager hire
Operating responsibility.	Yes, runs the function	Project-based; recommendations only	Yes once ramped
Forecast-accuracy focus.	Primary deliverable	Often dashboards-only	Hire-dependent
Sales-tech stack rationalization.	Vendor-neutral	Often Salesforce-partner aligned	Hire-dependent
Time to active.	2-3 weeks	4-8 weeks of scoping	3-5 months including hire + ramp

Frequently asked questions

Common questions from CROs and Sales Leaders evaluating Fractional Sales Ops.

RevOps is the broader umbrella covering Sales + Marketing + Customer Success operations. Sales Ops is RevOps with the sales-organization scope only. For Series-B/C teams, the work usually starts as Sales Ops and expands to RevOps as the alignment surface broadens. We do both.

Most Fractional Sales Ops Manager engagements run 1-2 days per week with availability for the moments that matter (forecast meeting, sales kickoff, board prep, vendor escalations). Higher tempo in the first 60 days, settling into a sustained cadence afterward.

Both, as scoped. CRM migrations are major projects (Salesforce to HubSpot, HubSpot to Salesforce, Pipedrive to anything) and we can run them, but they're scoped as a separate engagement layer on top of the Fractional Sales Ops work. Most engagements clean up rather than replatform.

Most Chameleon Fractional Sales Ops Manager engagements run $10K-$25K per month, scoped to outcome. The lower end is 1 day/week with focused scope; the upper end is 2 days/week with broader operating ownership during a transition.

Yes. The Fractional Sales Ops Manager sits between the CRO and the CFO in most engagements, translating sales operating reality into CFO-readable reporting, and translating CFO requirements back into operating cadences. The CRO is the engagement sponsor; both functions are stakeholders.

Directly. Chameleon Collective is a senior-only collective. No account-management layer between you and the strategist.

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