Customer Success Manager 2

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Customer Success Manager 2

Job summary

Provide best in class support through the evaluation of customer loyalty and oversight of regional customers. Typically manages a larger number of smaller sized accounts within a moderate scope. Works independently and receives instructions on new assignments.

Responsibilities

Customer Onboarding

• Utilizes onboarding templates and checklists and uses judgment within a moderate scope to make modifications to the standard during onboarding based on customers needs and project scope 

Uses the 3 Phase Methodology for onboarding:

• Phase 1 - Conducts pre-onboarding for key customers

• Phase 2 - Kick-off Onboarding: Sets up, facilitates and conducts kick-off meetings for customers

• Phase 3 - Continuous Follow-up: Within a moderate scope, follows up with key customers

All Phases: 

• Communicates effectively, able to translate internal processes to be able to set customer expectations within a moderate scope. Communicates with developed skills in a way that allows the CSM to influence the customer and others

• Able to communicate with customers what other teams at Equinix do and how customers should utilize them

General:

• Collects in depth information about the customer, so that the experience is personalized

• Proficient in Equinix's processes, policies and escalation paths

• Post onboarding, follows up on actions and tasks and understands how these tasks connect to customer's goals

• Able to articulate trends for this customer

• Able to utilize moderate inquiry (questioning) skills with the customer in order to better understand their business

• Able to use prior information to inquire more deeply about the customer

Adoption and Customer Success Management

• Develop, maintain and track progress of a Customer Success Plan within a moderate scope

• Drive product and process adoption by understanding customer usage trends of key customers

• Able to articulate a moderate understanding of Equinix's products (current and future) and provide customer education

• Collect customer feedback, providing it to relevant teams to improve the customer experience

• Proactively identifies feedback trends across customers and drives process improvements for key accounts

• Proactively review product utilization and propose potential solutions for key customers

General:

• For key customers only, partners with account team for presale discussion to facilitate account growth and gain insight and understanding of the customer

• Acts as a customer advocate 

• Ensure smooth and clear handoff to/from internal teams

• Proactively reaches out to customers to touch base (i.e. heath check) on key customers

• Accumulate, utilize and distribute methods of best practices, May develop and implement new methods of best practices

• Participate in key customer projects, may lead cross functional teams for key customer projects, within a moderate scope

Issue and Escalation Management

• Assess issue/escalation to validate, prioritize and progress accordingly

• Manage, document and raise visibility of critical escalations as appropriate

• Engage key stakeholders as needed to ensure adherence to standard operating procedures, policies/rules/restrictions and when resolving issues and communicating externally with support from management

• Identifies process improvement opportunities or plans while leveraging what is already in place

• Participate in and/or collects issue post mortem/root cause analysis, to communicate resolution and any improvement plans when required

General:

• Main point of contact for the customer providing honest and empathetic support, for CSM managed escalations. Escalates to GEM and functional teams as agreed

• Work cross functionally to proactively engage internal colleagues in order to provide ongoing, timely updates and resolutions to the customer within a moderate scope

• Provides globally consistent communication

Account Management & Retention

• Involved in managing accounts in conjunction with sales and management, including support of order fulfillment and other contractual obligations within a moderate scope

• Flags churn risks as they become known and proactively engages with sales and management to raise awareness of potential churn

• Manages delivery of regular Operational Survey Review for selected accounts, within a moderate scope

• Supports resolution of follow-up actions from CBRs and project manages follow-up actions from OBRs

General:

• Drives high customer satisfaction

• Able to support moderate customer projects independently and more complex projects under supervision

Qualifications

• 3+ years of CSM / Customer Support related experience

• Understanding datacenter / telecommunication / networking /cloud industry

• Ability to work with minimum supervision

• Eagerness to grow/learn

• Comfortable with ambiguity

• This position is only open to candidates who are currently based in Singapore, as we are unable to provide relocation assistance

• Bachelor's degree preferred

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