We are looking for an action-oriented and self-motivated individual to join our growing managed services team. The mission of the Customer Success Manager is to ensure that our customers realize the total value of the offerings and services they have purchased from us, ultimately maximizing renewals and upsell opportunities.
This is a post-sales, customer-centric role in a fast-paced environment that demands interaction with customers at senior levels and internal/external technical subject matter experts. Successful candidates will have outstanding communication skills, a proven track record of successfully interacting with customers regarding business and technical interests, and a solid technical background, especially AWS and Salesforce. The Customer Success Manager will have extensive experience managing key accounts and issues to completion with little or no direction and a passion for ensuring a world-class customer experience.
Summary of Key Responsibilities:
Become the trusted advisor and partner for our key accounts in IL.
Manage the post-sales customer journey for your book of business from Onboarding through Renewal and Advocacy, utilizing a growth mindset throughout to uncover upsell and cross-sell opportunities.
Partner closely with the customer executives and key stakeholders to ensure metrics for success are agreed upon and a mutual success plan of action is in place.
Meet regularly with customers to ensure the maximum value of the contract is being attained and continually verify and document customers' objectives, requirements, and value that they receive from our service.
Create key customer deliverables (presentation, recommendations, and risk mitigation plans).
Develop an understanding of each customers business and managed services needs, providing proactive recommendations that support the customers roadmap and vision.
Generate reports on our managed services offerings, providing insight and recommended next steps to maximize the customers ROI.
Strategically manage your portfolio via robust account plans - prioritizing your business book by renewals, expansions, and risk.
Be the voice of the customer inside the organization, driving process improvements and product roadmap decisions based on your frontline visibility of the key accounts.
Identify root causes of customer churn and possible client dissatisfaction and engage appropriate team members from cross-functional teams to help address underlying causes of churn and dissatisfaction.
Demonstrate your understanding of our offering, administrative procedures, and organization to effectively answer customers questions in a timely fashion.
Maintain an understanding of our competitor offerings (i.e., price, offerings, service, or solution) to communicate the advantages effectively.
Meet or exceed monthly and annual revenue objectives.
Requirements: BS/BA or equivalent
3 years of proven customer success management experience or relevant industry experience. Work experience in the professional environment of managed services is desirable.
Must demonstrate strong persuasion skills to influence colleagues and customers and thrive in high-impact situations.
Strong oral and written communication skills as well as presentation skills.
Excellent organizational skills, and you can conscientiously manage and follow up on multiple concurrent tasks.
Ability to take ownership of complex customers and mediate between competing interests and personalities to improve customer satisfaction and drive growth.
Must be able to quickly develop an in-depth understanding of our offerings and services and how they apply to the customers needs.
Demonstrate outstanding networking capabilities and exhibit a professional demeanor, business maturity, and technical knowledge
Experience working with Salesforce to manage customer interactions, track engagements, and drive business insights.
Fluent in English.
This position is open to all candidates.