Customer Success Account Manager

Are you excited about how innovative tech can be used for business and societal growth? Are you a business minded, result driven person with a curious mind? We are looking for a person with passion for people, business and tech, and the magic that occurs in the intersection of the three.

With over 17,000 employees worldwide, the mission of the Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization is to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft’s products, services, and partnerships. Come join CE&S and help us build a future where customers achieve their business outcomes faster with technology that does more.

As a Senior Customer Success Account Manager, you are the primary delivery and operations lead and a partner for our more strategic customers, empowering them to achieve more by accelerating their value realization across our Digital Cloud platforms. Our focus is the Telco, Retail and Energy industries. By leveraging your business acumen, industry perspectives and technical insights you will be responsible for the end-to-end post sales delivery across the Microsoft and Partner ecosystem, to align the right resources at the right time to achieve customer business outcomes.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities Customer Relationship Management

• Create, influences and evolve healthy, strategic relationships with key customer stakeholders, partners, and technical professionals to lead quality solution delivery and health, using partnerships with other account team leaders and lead orchestration across internal/external stakeholders

Customer Success Leadership - Customer Strategy and Growth

• Drive conversations with customers to demonstrate alignment between customer objectives and the current Microsoft portfolio of work in the customer account
• Align with the account team to link Customer Success Plans with account plan priorities and develop bookable programs of work

Customer Success Leadership – Delivery and Program Management

• In partnership with key stakeholders and executives, develop and deliver strategic roadmaps for executing program planning and customer-facing program review, prioritizing engagements, and influencing key stakeholder and executive expectations to address agreed-upon customer outcomes and account priorities to deliver ongoing customer success

Customer Success Leadership - Consumption Leadership

• Partner with customers to understand their business objectives and priorities, identify cross-selling and add-on opportunities, optimize usage, drive adoption, prioritize Microsoft products and services delivery to meet the most critical agreed-upon customer outcomes and account priorities, and develop and execute Customer Success plans to meet them in order to manage consumption holistically across the entire portfolio

Technical Relevance

• Leverages foundational industry, technical expertise, and visionary mindset to enable customer success

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Masters Degree in Business, Sociology, Psychology, Computer Science, or related field with customer success, solution delivery, practice management, customer-facing consulting, or portfolio management experience
• OR Bachelors Degree in Business, Sociology, Psychology, Computer Science or related field with considerable years customer success, solution delivery, practice management, customer-facing consulting, or portfolio management experience
• OR equivalent experience

Additional Preferred Qualifications

• Business acumen and extensive experience of driving value based business dialogues
• Microsoft or competitor equivalent (e.g., AWS) certification in relevant technologies (e.g., Azure, 365)
• Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Foundation certification or equivalent service management certification
• Project Management Institute (PMI) or equivalent Project Management certification
• Prosci or equivalent Change Management certification

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