Customer Success Manager

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Position: Customer Success Manager - Eastern Europe

Location: Remote working (based in Czech Republic or Poland)

The Job:

Customer Success Managers (CSM) 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 business 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.

Responsibilities:

As part of the Customer Success organization, the Customer Success Manager is responsible for managing existing accounts, ensuring the customer’s success and their perceived value of the AVEVA software set.

The Customer Success Manager will focus on these key areas for a defined customer portfolio as the CSM strives to become a trusted partner and consultant for those customers.

• 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.)
• Expansion – identify new business opportunity and team up with Sales to generate business revenue, leveraging both on deep expertise of customer’s business and frequent contacts.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Strong communication and presentation skills
• 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 OR similar products ( PI System, PIMS, Industrial Applications, Industrial IT)
• ‘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
• 2+ years of experience with AVEVA software products working knowledge and/or similar products (PI System, PIMS, Industrial Applications, Industrial IT)
• Effective use and understanding of CRM systems, Office 365, SharePoint, PowerBI, Salesforce, and Workday.
• Proficiency in English and Polish is required. Fluency in Czech will be an advantage.

Desired Qualification:

• Preferred 2-5 years of qualifying experience within the process manufacturing and/or services industry
• Experience in a Customer Success Management role is a plus
• Travel to customer sites and AVEVA offices might be expected (10% - 20% annually)

AVEVA requires all successful applicants to undergo and pass a comprehensive background check before they start employment. Background checks will be conducted in accordance with local laws and may, subject to those laws, include proof of educational attainment, employment history verification, proof of work authorization, criminal records, identity verification, credit check. Certain positions dealing with sensitive and/or third party personal data may involve additional background check criteria.

AVEVA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to being an exemplary employer with an inclusive culture, developing a workplace environment where all our employees are treated with dignity and respect. We value diversity and the expertise that people from different backgrounds bring to our business.

Come and join AVEVA to create the transformative technology that enables our customers to engineer a better world.