Customer Success Manager

AVEVA•Lake Forest, CA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

AVEVA is creating software trusted by over 90% of leading industrial companies. In this role, you will have the opportunity to make a significant impact for AVEVA’s customers, including Fortune 100 companies, while simultaneously building upon your existing skillsets. We are looking for energetic, creative, confident, and well-organized individuals to help our customers and AVEVA succeed together through proactive customer engagements and joint experiences that deliver value for both parties. Customer Success Managers are the customer's primary contact to help them realize more proven value faster by achieving their business goals by leveraging AVEVA technology. They accelerate the customer's time-to-value in their use of our tools and foster higher levels of adoption and deployment leading to greater ROI and customer satisfaction. CSMs manage a set of accounts by creating success plans and executing against them. They regularly check-in with the customer, understand the customer's industry, business, and goals. They build a strong relationship toward becoming a trusted advisor, and service their transactional needs in an efficient and frictionless manner. They help the customer optimize the utilization of their existing and available products to ensure best practice adoption. They work in tandem with the Account Manager and hand off qualified opportunities for expansion. They act as the customer advocate internally to ensure timely and positive outcomes. They collect information and provide feedback to drive product improvements that lead to greater automation, self-service, usability and customer empowerment.

Requirements

Strong communication and presentation skills
Experience in effectively leading staff of different roles and levels
Ability to travel globally to customer sites and AVEVA offices, estimated 10-20%
Ability to work well with cross-function and geographically distributed teams
Strong multi-tasking ability with a keen sense of prioritization
Strong relationship management and organizational skills
Experience with project and program management methodology and techniques
Strong presentation skills on AVEVA core technologies, business initiatives and services
‘Out-of-the-box’ thinking that will enable delivery of solutions and services tailored for individual customer profiles and situations
Ability to think strategically, as well as tactically

Nice To Haves

Foreign language proficiency a plus
2-5 years of qualifying experience within the process manufacturing and/or services industry
2-5 years of AEVA software products working knowledge and/or similar products
3+ years of experience in a Customer Success Management role a plus
Effective use and understanding of CRM systems, Office 365, SharePoint, PowerBI, Salesforce, and Workday Support

Responsibilities

Manage a portfolio of customer accounts through proactive engagements
Build and maintain strong customer relationships, becoming a trusted partner and consultant
Understand the customer’s goals, initiatives, products, and the value that they realize from AVEVA’s software, services, and the overall relationship
Drive the success of our customers by greater adoption of the AVEVA technology and uncover possible expansion opportunities within the existing install base
Service customer needs in an efficient and seamless manner
Drive improvements in AVEVA processes and policies, helping to move toward greater automation, self-service, and customer empowerment
Onboarding – establishing relationships, educating the customer on AVEVA resources and services, set expectations, identify business goals and objectives, and accelerate deployment readiness
Deployment – work with the Delivery Services Team or AVEVA partners to define architecture, identify and prioritize the PI rollout, recommend AVEVA Services or Support, define the Enterprise Roadmap, define and manage the ‘Services’ budget, and request, quote, coordinate AVEVA Services and Resources
Adoption – understand customer’s business and operations, define Success Plan, educate and consult on AVEVA use cases of value to customer, leverage workshop services, drive adoption for strategic AVEVA software (Cloud, synergy Sales plays, etc.)