Sr. Staff Customer Success Manager

Job description

3134540
Additional Cities

Minato
Career Level

Experienced
Relocation Assistance

No
Business

GE Digital
Business Segment

Digital Commercial Professional Services & Support
Function

Services
Country/Territory

Japan
Postal Code

107-6115
Role Summary/Purpose

The Customer Success Manager is responsible for driving the ongoing attainment of outcomes for GE Digital’s strategic customers. They act as internal champion and quarterback, coordinating the cross functional approach required for sustained customer success and growth. Key focus areas will include outcome attainment, retention, expansion, and customer advocacy.
Essential Responsibilities

• Lead the development and execution of action plans to achieve identified customer outcomes for named accounts by establishing critical goals or other key performance indicators.
• Manage overall post-sales relationship with assigned accounts.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to shepherd customers through the onboarding process by providing clear guidance about next steps, maintaining open lines of communication, and connecting customers to the appropriate internal resources.
• Monitor post-sales customer lifecycle activities including training, professional services, technical support, renewals, expansion, and advocacy.
• Manage customer interactions in a manner that establishes credibility and trust as a business advisor.
• Execute growth plans at named accounts to increase adoption/utilization of existing offerings and demand/consumption of new offerings.
• Lead the development and measurement of key performance indicators for identified accounts to establish a baseline as well as continued reporting capabilities on outcomes achievement.
• Work with customer advocacy team to develop customer specific case studies and references to share covered account’s success.
• Achieve customer success outcomes including reduced customer churn, revenue expansion opportunity identification, higher customer product adoption, customer satisfaction, and overall customer health scores.
• Advocate customer needs/issues cross-departmentally and program manage account escalations.
• Provide timely updates to sales team about potential commercial opportunities at customer site.

Critical to success will be driving cross-functional collaboration and communication across sales, services, support, and product management to facilitate specific customer success touch points such as on-boarding, implementation, training, outcomes project planning /execution, and regular troubleshooting.
Qualifications/Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university or college in business discipline
• At least 5 years of experience in software or high tech marketing, commercial operations, sales, or service
• At least 3 years of experience in a direct customer facing role
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job
• Must be willing to travel 30%
• Must be willing to work out of a GE office located in Japan
Desired Characteristics

• Multilingual language skills
• MBA or similar a plus
• Background in consulting or business development
• Familiarity or past experience with customer success team
• General urgency in execution and tendency toward speed with ability to adapt and change
• Experience managing deep customer relationships (e.g. strategic account management or customer service)
• Strong empathy for customers and capability for enabling profitable growth
• Proven ability to influence through persuasion, negotiation, and consensus building
• Strong executive presence
• Strong business acumen including experience working in a B2B environment
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
About Us

GE is the world's Digital Industrial Company, transforming industry with software-defined machines and solutions that are connected, responsive and predictive. Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale, GE delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.
Primary Country

Japan