Looking for candidates for a long term contract position of Customer Success Manager based in Berlin/Munich, Germany.
As a Customer Success Manager, you are a critical part of our customers’ adoption of security integrations. You act as their day-to-day contact for products in the Network Security portfolio, establishing relationships with them in order to understand security and business priorities, provide guidance, and share operational best practices for their secure environments. You’ll guide for quick and consistent adoption, accelerated integrations with new cloud security products, and real-time support and strategy. You have in-depth knowledge of indicators of success, leveraging data and your analytical aptitudes to guide changes, updates, and improvements
Your Impact
* Lead client's product onboarding experience, adoption, and expansion across a range of relationships
* Be the customers’ guide through the entire post-sales journey, and advocate in influencing product roadmap and improvements
* Develop a strong partnership with and become a trusted advisor to customer stakeholders, channel partners, and executive sponsors to drive product adoption - consult them on when to consider expanding their platform, adopt new features, how to reduce time to value, upgrade software and/or hardware, and when to engage additional Palo Alto Networks services
* Advise the customer on their platform adoption, their deployment of best practices using tools such as the Best Practice Assessment and partnering with Professional Services and Enablement on delivering on some of the services like security optimization and identifying training opportunities for their teams
* Coach customers on how to establish and implement their Network Security change management, governance, the center of excellence programs
* Identify and escalate risks and issues to the customer and Support team to achieve client success
* Gain a deep understanding of typical business challenges faced by our customers in order to appropriately map features in their security environments, as well as provide proactive information, guidance, and support
* Identify risks to customers’ subscription and service renewals on an ongoing basis and collaborate with internal teams to remediate client concerns and ensure renewal readiness
* Establish relationships with customer executive sponsors, speaking on a frequent cadence to strengthen relationships while uncovering new service and product opportunities for the account team
* Monitor key performance metrics like customer satisfaction, renewal rate, product upsell/cross-sell identification, reference-ability, renewal likelihood, adoption, consumption, and customer engagement - leverage these key metrics to build a strategic plan to address negative changes in the metrics
* Proactively engage Customer Support and Engineering to monitor and resolve complex technical issues
* Deliver Executive Business Reviews (Quarterly Services Review) with the support and involvement of the Account Team
* Internal collaboration with other services teams
Experience:
* Fluent in English and possibly in a second language among French and German
* Pre-sales, account management, customer success, consulting or similar roles related to driving customer success and adoption, along with client facing sales/services experience
* Experience working with Cloud platforms (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Azure) or in cybersecurity
* Experience in or ability to work with technical support and/or professional services within the high-tech industry
* Experience with a SaaS solutions company and/or an enterprise software company
* Strong consulting and project management skills, with proven results working as a reliable advisor to drive business value for customers - Preferably holds Project Management or Service Delivery qualifications such as PMP, PRINCE2, and ITIL
* Highly data-driven with a dedication to following the process, ability to prioritize work within a demanding environment, and consistently delivering results
* Ability to identify key customer stakeholders to engage and build relationships without direct supervision
* Ability to influence teams across the organization to achieve desired customer outcomes
* Passionate about driving and tracking a consistent engagement process with all supported customers
* Ability to multi-task and work in a dynamic environment to address emerging security risks and challenges
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills as well as the ability to clearly articulate technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences and to explain the impact in business terms
* Preferred Knowledge of Networking
* Knowledge of CyberSecurity Network Security is preferred
* Knowledge of heterogeneous environments used by enterprise customers
Please note, only candidates eligible to work in Germany can apply.
If interested, please get in touch with me on Linkedin or drop an email with your recent CV on usha@infotreeglobal.com and I'll get back to you at the earliest.
Best Regards
Usha
Infotree Global Solutions
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/usha-rahul-116453223