The Customer Success Manager (CSM) is an integral part of the Customer Success Team’s renewal and cross-sell strategy. In this role, the CSM will serve as the main point of contact for an assigned portfolio of customers, fielding customer questions on products/services, handling escalations, and will ultimately deliver on-time contract renewals as well as identify and secure cross-sell opportunities.
The Opportunity
The Customer Success Manager (CSM) is an integral part of the Customer Success Team’s renewal and cross-sell strategy. In this role, the CSM will serve as the main point of contact for an assigned portfolio of customers, fielding customer questions on products/services, handling escalations, and will ultimately deliver on-time contract renewals as well as identify and secure cross-sell opportunities.
What You Will Do
- Take full accountability for your accounts in all aspects from onboarding to renewal.
- Manage a portfolio of mid to enterprise level customers, with the goal of increasing renewal-based revenue.
- Anticipate customer needs and proactively mitigate risk throughout the customer life cycle, ensuring a frictionless renewal and negotiation process, and ultimately positioning your accounts for growth.
- Ongoing customer consultation - Successfully navigate, interpret, and leverage provided tools and systems to measure and report on customer experience and product utilization. Take corrective actions in a timely manner based on this visibility and make strategic recommendations to help customers be more successful.
- Prepare and facilitate business review meetings, trainings, webinars, demos, and other strategic and supportive interactions to ensure a seamless renewal.
- Predict and forecast risk, renewal and expansion within customer portfolio.
- Develop and share best practices with team members to continually improve the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of our processes.
- Meet and exceed quarterly gross and net revenue retention targets, or other targets defined by the business.
- Document customer suggestions for product enhancements and innovation and share this input with the Product Team.
- Work with the Support Team to process customer terminations.
- Identify and share opportunities for renewal process improvements.
What You’ll Need to Succeed:
- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent professional experience required.
- 5-8 years of customer success experience or similar field such as Sales/Business Development, Consulting, Account Management (SaaS industry experience highly preferred).
- Effective communication skills; both verbal and written.
- Self-motivated, team-oriented, responsible, and focused on exceeding customer expectations.
- Self-directed and able to work independently in a remote work environment.
- Conscientious regarding deadlines and a strong sense of urgency.
- High attention to detail.
- Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong on negotiation, presentation and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to manage a diverse portfolio of customers with efficiency.
- Experience negotiating renewals and closing deals.
- Experience with HubSpot or other CRM tools preferred.
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