Customer Success Manager I

Customer Success Manager I

Job Description:

Reports In To

Director Customer Success EMEA, APJ & GC

Objective of the role

A Customer Success Manager at SUSE engages with customers to drive SUSE adoption and demonstrate ongoing value. You are responsible for the complete post-sales lifecycle and need to maximize the success of our customers and have the responsibility to coordinate all Customer Success activities (Onboarding, Adoption, Consumption and Retention) resulting in securing and expanding the SUSE footprint in customers environment. The CSM supports customers in their journey to create value out of their investments returning into (over)achieving their objectives and desired business outcomes.

Focus Area

• Develop and maintain strong customer relationships and be a trusted advisor to them.

• Prepare and execute a Customer Success Plan (CSP) based on a structured programmatic approach.

• Translate customer strategy and needs into usage of SUSE’s solutions (i.e. SUSE and Rancher products and services).

• Guide customers in their journey to discover full value out of SUSE’s Open Source Infrastructure solutions whilst covering both business and technical domains.

• Ensure that the customer experiences an easy onboarding process of our solutions as well as to provide strategic guidance on how customers can maximize the adoption and usage of our solutions to their benefit.

• Collaboration with cross functional groups across the organization to further develop customer relationship.

• Collaborate very closely with SUSE’s Account Executive to ensure growth and increased footprint including the identification of cross- and upsell opportunities.

• Collaborate with consulting, support and service team to maximize customer satisfaction by for example ensuring products & solutions are smoothly implemented, deployed and support tickets solved effectively.

• Support SUSE Services team to establish a collaboration model between customer and engineering to create a closed loop between product capabilities and customer needs.

• Regular collaboration with the SUSE Training & Enablement team to develop advanced competence of customers about SUSE’s portfolio.

• Influence lifetime value through higher product adoption, customer satisfaction and overall Net Promoter Score.

• Pro-active Customer Health monitoring and gaining real-time business insights.

• Schedule and lead QBR’s in which overall progress / status of CSP is reviewed and measured (using pre-defined metrics and KPI’s) in close collaboration with customers and sales.

• Take full responsibility to secure subscription renewals, increase renewal rates, drive upsell and reduce churn.

• Provide insights to customers to ensure that they get the most out of their investments into SUSE and Rancher products and services with the aim of helping grow our customer base.

• Being the main point of contact between SUSE and several named accounts. This will be in support of an AE where one has been assigned to the account.

• Enable successful roll-out of SUSE to customer employees, including sharing and developing relevant assets, brainstorming ideas, and attending launches virtually or in person.

• Maintain a cadence of communicating with customers about their adoption trends, sentiment, and mining opportunities for deeper engagement.

• Establish management level relationships between customers and SUSE.

About You

• 5+ years’ experience in client facing role.

• Have a significant experience collaborating with senior IT and business leaders as well as a variety of internal stakeholders from different departments.

• Direct customer advocacy and engagement experiences in post-sales functions.

• Successfully managed customer journeys and engagements to completion and customer satisfaction.

• Strong presentation, communication and cross-functional collaboration skills across all levels.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Demonstrate success in thinking strategically, executing tactically while providing consistent and high levels of customer satisfaction and retention.

• Bachelor’s Degree, MBA preferred.

• Knowledge of IT technology and an understanding of Open Source market and solutions.

• Proven track record of achieving targets and goals.

Job:

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SUSE, the world’s largest independent open source software company, powers digital transformation with true open source technologies for the enterprise that simplify, modernize and accelerate traditional, cloud and edge solutions. SUSE collaborates with partners, communities and customers to deliver and support solutions that enable mission-critical business outcomes. SUSE’s container and cloud platforms, software-defined infrastructure, and artificial intelligence and edge computing solutions allow customers to create, deploy and manage workloads anywhere – on premises, hybrid and multi-cloud. For more information, visit www.suse.com.