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Sales Territory Reassignment

Design a revenue-operations workflow for moving accounts between territories while protecting active relationships and credit rules.

Desktop web

The brief

Understand the problem

Background

Territory changes affect account ownership, opportunity credit, tasks, forecasts, support relationships, and compensation. A bulk reassignment based only on geography can disrupt live deals or double-count revenue.

User context

Revenue operations lead Simone is dividing one national territory into east and west regions next quarter. Twenty-six active opportunities require individual ownership decisions before the new structure takes effect.

Product problem

Operators need to model the proposed territory rules, expose exceptions, coordinate approvals, and execute changes at a controlled time.

Objective

Create rule setup, account simulation, exception resolution, approval, and scheduled reassignment for a territory redesign.

What to design

Define the experience

Required experience

  • Define future territory rules and effective date
  • Simulate account and opportunity movement
  • Resolve strategic-account and active-deal exceptions
  • Approve, schedule, and verify the reassignment

Screens and states

  • Territory rule setup
  • Movement simulation
  • Exception workspace
  • Execution report

Core user flow

Follow the critical path

  1. 01

    Simone defines east and west postal-code rules for next quarter

  2. 02

    The simulation shows account counts, pipeline value, and owner changes

  3. 03

    She keeps active late-stage opportunities with current owners through close

  4. 04

    Sales leadership approves and the scheduled job reports each completed or failed move

Product rules

Requirements and constraints

Requirements

  • Version current and future territory rules separately
  • Show account count, pipeline, forecast, owner, and compensation impact
  • Support per-account exceptions with reason and expiry
  • Produce approval history, scheduled execution, and item-level outcomes

Constraints

  • Active commission rules cannot be overwritten silently
  • The effective date must respect closed reporting periods
  • Administrators can reassign only authorized regions

Reality check

States worth considering

An account matches two territories
An owner leaves before execution
A postal boundary changes
The bulk job partially fails

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Mock data

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Simulation summary

  • 1,284 accounts move
  • $18.6M open pipeline affected
  • 26 active-deal exceptions
  • 14 owner changes pending approval

Finish line

What to deliver

  • Four desktop screens with simulation, exception, and partial-failure states

Optional direction

Visual resources

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Color palette
#A9A4CE
#05623B
#1F1109
#79829C
#6CBCB4
Font pairing
Libre BaskervilleSource Sans Pro

Libre Baskerville & Source Sans Pro

Clear interface writing gives people the confidence to understand what changed and decide what to do next.

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