Customer Success Account Management

1 week ago

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Microsoft Full time
The Customer Success Account Management role is a People Leader role.


This individual develops, maintains, and builds upon foundational relationships with key customer stakeholders and technical professionals to enable quality solution delivery and health using partnerships.

Guides and leads conversations to facilitate the achievement of customer business objectives by leveraging their investment in Microsoft.

Partners with Account Team to create a customer success plan and contribute to the shared customer account plan in support of customer objectives specific to the customer's business transformation programs and common to their industry.

Leverages understanding of the customer's technology platform and Microsoft's technology roadmap to enable customer digital transformation.

Engages in conversations with customers and demonstrates alignment between customer objectives and the current Microsoft portfolio of work in the customer account.

Leads the execution of program planning and customer-facing program reviews, prioritization of engagements, and management of key stakeholder and executive expectations to address agreed-upon customer outcomes and account priorities.

Partners with customers to proactively identify opportunities for growth, optimize usage, and drive adoption.

Responsibilities:

People Management

  • Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring.


 Model
  • Live our culture; Embody our values; Practice our leadership principles.


 Coach
  • Define team objectives and outcomes; Enable success across boundaries; Help the team adapt and learn.


 Care
  • Attract and retain great people; Know each individual's capabilities and aspirations; Invest in the growth of others.
Customer Relationship Management

  • Leads by example through owning operational executive relationships with key customer, partner, and internal contacts to further Microsoft's customer success goals, targeting executives (as appropriate). Ensures the customer is recognizing value as planned. Anticipates, identifies, and manages potential issues, escalating to appropriate teams for resolution. Expands customer relationships to create crosssell and upsell opportunities.
  • Identifies, understands, influences, and challenges and manages the needs, expectations, and interests of key customer technical, business, and executive stakeholders. Ensures key stakeholders (including partners) are satisfied with agreed upon objectives and outcomes and that their interests are protected and valued. Leads and coaches business value conversations key stakeholders.
  • Collects feedback from internal and customer stakeholders on business needs, preferences, values, and goals to identify important customer patterns, pain points, attitudes, and expectations and coaches others to do the same. Prioritizes resource efforts to meet the most critical needs and expectations of customers.
Reviews and communicates the status of delivery programs linked to customer priorities with internal stakeholders.

Technical Relevance

  • Coaches team members on implementing training plans focused on technical and industry knowledge development aligned with organizational goals. Coaches team members on and stays current with industry and Microsoft technical insights through consultation with the Customer Success community, peers, partners, and customer stakeholders. Advises customers on Microsoft technology trends and direction with relevance to Microsoft's competition.
Customer Success Leadership

  • Drives conversations with customers to demonstrate alignment between customer objectives and the current Microsoft portfolio of work in the customer account, promoting identified opportunities for growth. Leads the team to adopt organizational and customer success strategy to maximize customer's investments and value across all solution areas. Works with customers to define and agree upon a longterm approach to fuel adoption of Microsoft technology and services in alignment with the customers' current and future goals and objectives. Supports account team planning, promoting business and technical needs for change to challenge customer thinking that drives transformation towards modern digital approaches.
  • Coaches team on developing and delivering strategic roadmaps in partnership with key stakeholder and executives for executing program planning, managing key stakeholder and executive expectations via delivery of a Customer Success Plan (CSP), and prioritizing engagements to address agreedupon customer outcomes and account priorities to deliver ongoing customer success. Coaches team on leveraging, improving upon, and streamlining the use of Microsoft delivery management methodologies, processes, and tools to improve and mitigate risks to customer operational health. Coaches team on anticipating, identifying, and mitigating customer blockers and risks by leveraging Microsoft solutions and services, and developing del

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