Customer Success Manager
5 hours ago
Customer Success Manager
This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2-3 days per week from an HPE office.
**Who We Are**:
The Customer Success Manager (CSM) is a strategic customer centric role. The CSM is a key member of HPE's account team and serves as a trusted advisor, understanding client business objectives, project priorities, and desired outcomes. With this insight, they align the service adoption journey to best suit the client's needs and optimize their experience with HPE. Customer Success Manager proactively engages with customers to help them achieve their targeted business outcomes, maximize value of their HPE investment, and transform their aaS experiences into unparalleled value.
A primary function of the CSM is to help clients make the most of HPE's solutions, ensuring they achieve the desired results and realize the maximum return on their investment. Their involvement continues throughout the client's engagement with HPE, from onboarding through to solution adoption. This involves ensuring consistent and meaningful engagement, optimizing usage, and aiming for revenue growth, account expansion, and sustained customer loyalty.
CSMs are directly responsible for driving usage growth and the upsell sales motion within their designated accounts. Partnering closely with Sales Specialists, they harness their specialized knowledge to identify and nurture new sales pipeline within their accounts. This responsibility comes with an ownership of a quota, emphasizing the significance of maximizing the customer adoption.
The CSM continuously promotes the value of HPE's as-a-service offerings to meet client business objectives. CSM's post-sales activities are focused on maintaining and deepening relationships, accelerating consumption and utilization of existing services, identifying opportunities to introduce additional HPE solutions, and consistently delivering tangible business value with a high standard of customer service. The CSM is dedicated to client success, ensuring they benefit from our solutions while also providing feedback and insights to our internal teams for continuous improvement.
The CSM is customer facing and may regularly be present onsite on customer premise.
**Management Level Definition**:
**Responsibilities**:
- Take ownership of a select group of Align to select strategic customer accounts to:
Customer Relationship Management
- Cultivates strong senior-level relationships with stakeholders at all levels within the customer’s organization, including engagement with key stakeholders.
- Acts as primary advocate for the customer, ensuring their needs, objectives, and desired outcomes are understood and prioritized.
Onboarding & Adoption
- Successfully onboard customers and help them define and achieve their adoption success criteria.
- Develop and maintain a Customer Success Plan for assigned accounts; outlining the customer goals, desired outcomes, and timelines, ensuring customers are receiving consistent experience throughout the entire customer journey.
- Serves as a point of escalation for customer issues, coordinating with various internal teams, including technical support, product management, and engineering, to ensure swift and effective resolution.
Customer Advocacy & Growth
- Identify and drive opportunities to deliver additional value through advanced features or services
- Drives upsell sales motion in the assigned account base, identifying and closing new expansion opportunities.
- Identify Cross-Sell opportunities and collaborate with Sales Specialists to pursue.
- Capture the capabilities of HPE’s offerings and identify gaps related to customer use cases through a closed loop process for each step of the engagement life cycle.
**Education and Experience Required**:
- A university or bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience; advanced University or MBA preferred.
- CCSM (Certified Customer Service Manager) - Level 4 or higher certification preferred.
- HPE GreenLake ATP certification preferred.
- Proven experience in customer success management, managing large customer accounts, developing customer success plans, and achieving customer success objectives.
- Considered a trusted advisor externally and a mentor of customer success management internally.
- Viewed as an expert in the given field by company and customer.
- Experience in project/program management preferred.
- Experience in cloud operating models.
- A natural relationship builder, capable of earning respect both inside and outside the company.
- Typically, 7-10 years of direct, work-related experience.
Knowledge & Skills:
- A thorough understanding of the technology industry, including trends, market dynamics, emerging technologies, cloud computing and competitive landscape.
- Stay current with industry developments to provide valuable insights to customers.
- Comprehensive knowledge of the company's products and serv
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