Customer Success Manager

The Customer Success Manager is responsible for driving client satisfaction, increasing retention and lifetime value for the business. He/ She ensures the clients derive optimal value from the use of products and services. He develops programmers to onboard the clients and manages the entire onboarding process, determining key milestones with clients and celebrating achievement of milestones. He engages the clients to gain insights on usage and satisfaction with the organization’s products and services, formulates plans to address challenges for the clients, and helps the clients derive greater value. He analyses client data to enhance the client experience and satisfaction, and at the same time identifies opportunities for up-selling and cross-selling. He works in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, and visits clients' premises as and when required. He is familiar with client relationship management and sales tools, as well as customer service frameworks and practices. He is knowledgeable of best practices pertaining to the use of the organization's products and services, and the clients’ industry and business needs. The Customer Success Manager possesses strong analytical and problem solving skills. He is able to build and sustain relationships with clients, and is seen as a trusted advisor. He is a creative thinker, patient and client-oriented.

Skills and Competencies

Technical Skills & Competencies

Account Management
Proficiency Level
Engage with customers, providing solutions, gathering feedback and managing customer satisfaction for a given account.
3
Budgeting
Proficiency Level
"Prepare business unit’s operational budgets "
3
Business Performance Management
Proficiency Level
"Monitor performance of the department "
3
Customer Experience Management
Proficiency Level
"Recognise customer profiles and preferences, and execute the customer engagement strategy, creating a positive customer experience through day to day interactions "
2
"Analyse implications of customer profiles, requirements and buying patterns on organization's marketing strategy, and propose customer engagement initiatives "
3
Business Needs Analysis
Proficiency Level
"Elicit and analyze business requirements from key stakeholders and assess relevant solutions and their potential impact"
3

Generic Skills & Competencies

Service Orientation
Proficiency Level
Model, lead, train and motivate staff with a focus on sustaining a culture that encourages commitment to service excellence and high performance.
Advanced
Communication
Proficiency Level
"Articulate and discuss ideas and persuade others to achieve common outcomes "
Intermediate
Interpersonal Skills
Proficiency Level
Detect and decipher emotions of others to manage interpersonal relationships in social situations.
Intermediate
Problem Solving
Proficiency Level
Identify less perceivable problems and use problem solving tools and techniques to solve the problems.
Intermediate
Sense Making
Proficiency Level
Interpret data to uncover patterns and trends between various sources of data.
Intermediate

Critical Work Functions and Key Tasks

Implement customer success strategy

• Design initiatives and programs to drive client satisfaction, retention and lifetime value 
• Develop service level agreements with various functions to facilitate implementation, feedback and collaboration 
• Analyse operating landscape, technology developments, and client feedback to derive insights 
• Determine key performance indicators and goals to measure progress and achievement of client success 

Onboard new customers

• Manage the client onboarding process and provide recommendations to improve the process 
• Determine objectives and success measures of the onboarding process with the client 
• Design and manage delivery of client onboarding programmers
• Engage clients throughout the onboarding process to identify and address concerns, provide support, 
obtain feedback and understand client needs 
• Evaluate success of the client onboarding process and celebrate wins

Optimise derivable value of products and services for customers

• Conduct reviews on usage of and satisfaction with products and services to determine opportunities 
for optimizing value for the client 
• Formulate solutions to address challenges, underutilization, and improve utilization of solutions to deliver greater value to clients 
• Create client success case studies and educational resources for internal teams and clients 
• Conduct sharing sessions with clients on industry best practices 
• Analyse client data to improve client experience, engagement and satisfaction with the organization’s products and services 
• Engage clients to understand their business challenges and variables that may impact future growth and performance 
• Direct technical issues of products and services to relevant technical teams for resolution

Optimise derivable value of products and services for customers

• Identify opportunities for upselling and cross-selling of products and services based on 
analysis of the client’s business strategy, needs and maturity of technology 
• Provide inputs to conceptualize new products and services and increase the value of existing products and services 
• Provide inputs to the sales team on securing renewal of contracts and additions to existing contracts 
• Manage the renewal sales cycle and pipeline 

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