Customer Success Manager – Business Application

Job description

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us to achieve our mission.

Microsoft envisions a world where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envisioning what can be and taking their careers places they simply couldn’t anywhere else. This is a world of more possibility, more innovation, more openness, and sky’s-the-limit thinking – a cloud-enabled world.

We are always learning. Insatiably curious. We lean into uncertainty, take risks, and learn quickly from our mistakes. We build on each other’s ideas, because we are better together. We stand in awe of what humans dare to achieve and are motivated every day to empower others to do more and achieve more through our technology and innovation. Together we make a difference.

We are looking for a Customer Success Manager (CSM) Business Applications to drive successful adoption and expansion of Business Applications workloads within her/his accounts. The CSM role will collaboratively drive change management and adoption activities with key Business Decision Makers, help reduce implementation risk, drive usage of existing workloads, and identify opportunities in her/his accounts. The CSM is also a key part of our customer facing sales teams and will be called on frequently to leverage their deep knowledge of CRM or ERP to support sales growth.
• *Responsibilities**:
• *Understanding the Customer**
– Utilizes information on customer business, needs, strategy, competition, and industry to support customer success, challenge the customer when necessary, and position the organization to deliver solutions that satisfy customer and market needs. Applies understanding of competitive landscape and industry trends by drawing connections. Seeks to understand customer’s future needs, outlook, and outcomes by meeting with and leading conversations with customer stakeholders and business decision makers (e.g., Chief Experience Officers [CxOs]). Ensures customer insights are communicated to internal teams (e.g., Engineering, Specialists, Account teams). Aligns with internal teams.
• *Business Value Communication**
– Demonstrates business value of solutions for complex customer organization and tailors message to their business strategy. Provides evidence of business value in the customer environment and connection to customer needs through demonstrations, storytelling, etc. Serves as a sought-after resource and trusted advisor based on deep knowledge of product capability and scenarios and ability to connect relevant industry, competitive, and/or customer insights to business outcomes.
• *Business Value Realization**
– Provides guidance to customers in defining and measuring key performance indicators (KPIs) as appropriate, leveraging Microsoft value maps and aligning customer needs with tools and processes. Drives innovation in customer success plans to optimize customer value. Leverages understanding of strategic intent and business outcomes to facilitate discussions around KPIs. Optimizes value realization by engaging other resources (e.g., Engineering, Partners) and ensuring progress reporting.
• *Guiding Customer Strategy**
– Influences long-term customer strategy and growth for Microsoft by cultivating customer preference for Microsoft programs/solutions that drive impact for the customer and establishing Microsoft as a leader through new reference cases, leveraging functional expertise. Provides feedback to Microsoft on customer development needs. Resolves blockers as needed to guide customer strategy. Acts as a strategic partner to executive-level business and technical decision makers (e.g., Director level, Vice President) to support customers in defining and realizing their digital and business transformational targets.
• *Partner Engagement**
– Proactively builds and leverages relationships with relevant internal and external partners and/or Services to develop partner network and support business outcomes. Collaborates with senior partners (e.g., Chief Experience Officers [CxOs]) to leverage strategic and updated offerings for plays. Recommends partnerships with high strategic value and cultivates their support.
• *Cross-Team Collaboration**
– Leads and inspires internal and customer teams across functions to support business outcomes and enable execution of customer success through One Microsoft, and inform programmatic improvements. Identifies and integrates key stakeholders to support execution. Shares best practices and engages in global Customer Success Manager community.
• *Operational Excellence**
– Manages operational excellence and customer health by ensuring consumption process compliance and managing pipeline (e.g., customer