This comes up constantly in every resume help thread I've been in, so let me try to give a real answer instead of the usual 'add numbers!' advice that's useless without context.
First: not every bullet needs a metric. Hiring managers know this. What kills a bullet isn't the absence of a number, it's the absence of stakes. 'Managed stakeholder relationships' tells me nothing. 'Managed quarterly reviews with six business unit leads across two regions' tells me scale and scope even without a revenue figure.
Second: proxy metrics are real metrics. If you can't cite revenue, cite: Team size you influenced (not just managed) Project timeline (cut 3 weeks off a 6-month rollout) Scope (owned end-to-end delivery for a product used by X teams) Volume (reviewed 40+ vendor proposals in one quarter) Frequency (weekly executive briefings, not 'ad-hoc reporting')
Third: before/after framing works when numbers don't. 'Rebuilt the onboarding process; new-hire ramp time dropped from 8 weeks to 5' is concrete even if you never touched a dashboard. You just need to know what changed.
Fourth, and this one people skip: it's okay to say 'approximately' or use ranges. 'Reduced manual work by roughly 30%' is still credible if you can explain how you got there in an interview. Precision theater on a resume is worse than honest approximation.
I spent years in consulting coaching people to turn ambiguous project work into clear stories. The discipline is the same: identify the problem, the action, and the outcome. The outcome doesn't always have a dollar sign. It just needs to show that something was different after you showed up.
If you want to test a specific bullet, post it in the replies and I'll give you a rewrite.