Microsoft Looking For Customer Success Account Manager at Columbus, OH Full Time

People Management

Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring.

Model – Live our culture; Embody our values; Practice our leadership principles.

Coach – Define team objectives and outcomes; Enable success across boundaries; Help the team adapt and learn.

Care – Attract and retain great people; Know each individual’s capabilities and aspirations; Invest in the growth of others.

Customer Relationship Management

Leads by example in creating and nurturing strategic relationships with key customer stakeholders, targeting the C-Suite (as appropriate), often as part of a steering committee, to ensure delivery value is on track and major issues are being anticipated, identified, and managed.

Synthesizes insights from their team regarding the business and Information Technology objectives, priorities, and strategies of customers across their Practice and more broadly across their practice in order to identify wide-spread patterns and develop strategies for the practice. Coaches others to do the same. Communicates current status of portfolio engagements to customer stakeholders on regular cadence. Coaches team to act on industry trends, anticipate and captures new customer needs and outcomes identified during customer engagement. Scopes for managed intellectual property (IP) that supports the practice, and provides feedback to corporate on the effectiveness of IP.

Account Planning

Cultivates the image of their team, practice, and Microsoft as a valued business partner by aligning customer strategy with Microsoft’s offerings and roadmap, as well as considering future industry needs, to agree on a long-term strategy (including for consumption) aligned to those objectives. Taking into account industry and customer insights, supports their team to lead with complex portfolio and program planning, engagement with executive sponsors, and prioritization of engagements to address strategic outcomes and drive customer success. Supports, in collaboration with other account team leaders, the Account Team in presenting the business and technical need for change and challenging customers’ thinking where appropriate, including insights from competitors. Supports account planning, acts as a change agent for the Practice, and advocates internally to help customers transform to modern digital approaches.

Cultivates transformational approaches in aligning growth goals, opportunities, and industry strategies enabling organizational and area portfolio and program planning excellence for the largest, most complex, strategic customers (e.g., global, high- revenue generation, complex transformation, strategic accounts) in partnership with Sales and account team leadership across solution areas. Supports the efficiency targets of their practice through the delivery of contracts and customer value, leveraging managed intellectual property (MIP) and enhanced offerings, in alignment with compliance policies.

Opportunity and Pursuit Management

Provides guidance and mentorship in leading a team in recommending innovative opportunities for growth to capture and communicate customer and industry insights to sellers. Partners with internal leadership teams (e.g., Account Technology Unit [ATU], Customer Success Unit [CSU], Specialist Team Unit [STU]) to identify, create, and strategize on growth opportunities for their Practice and Area growth goals. In partnership with Sales identifies and supports the development of new customer opportunities aligned with Microsoft strategic priorities.

Consumption and Delivery Execution

Coaches their team on the adoption and consistent use of appropriate delivery-management methodologies, processes, and tools. Coaches their team on effective customer communication and understanding customer expectations. Ensures that customer opportunities, questions, and/or issues are brought to the appropriate internal teams and management/leadership stakeholders. Encourages others to develop and/or expand awareness of internal mechanisms to best address global customer and industry needs. Establishes accountabilities to drive customer outcomes with internal stakeholders through their area’s Customer Success Account Managers (CSAMs). Coaches their team on mapping and traceability using complex artifacts or indicators (e.g. value realization metrics). Ensures that their team has processes in place to affirm that they will meet customer goals and expectations. Anticipates, identifies, and mitigates blockers to customer success goals and partners with internal and external leadership stakeholders. Develops widespread initiatives to coach leadership colleagues on common consumption blockers in the industry, implementing large-scale and innovative approaches to address them.

Sets the strategic direction of solution deliveries across the Practice, mentors others, and supports securing resources with internal leadership to deliver on customer obligations. Provides feedback and improves on delivery methodologies, processes, and tools. Accelerates production level consumption and ensures customer success in driving solution and operational health for Customers across the solution and support lifecycle. Seeks to resolve issues identified and escalated from direct reports regarding internal or critical customer issues (e.g., personnel change requests, threat of critical deal loss) with significant financial impacts on the business. Establishes global escalation standards for their Practice and Area and implements escalation management governance processes. Proactively manages customer and internal executive engagement through strategic relationships.

Technical Skilling

Supports their team in developing and executing skilling plans to build technical expertise (e.g., customer/industry knowledge, product skills) in alignment with business priorities. Leverages development opportunities (e.g., mentorships, role-based resources, training) and drives team technical capabilities by proactively providing development opportunities through coaching and mentorship to team members. Leverages deep industry insights and customer experiences to challenge internal peers and provide mentorship that enhances their understanding of the customer and industry. Builds and leverages deep partnerships with technical teams (e.g., Cloud Solution Architecture [CSA], Fastrack, Engineering) and uses technical expertise to integrate multiple cloud technologies into robust solutions. Engages with customers to deepen competitive and strategic expertise and to identify common technology trends.

Customer Success Strategy

Translates corporate and Customer Success strategy and regional and area direction into local action. Clarifies corporate and Customer Success strategies to build alignment with key stakeholder and customer strategies, and drive toward achieving practice goals. Leads trend identification and implementation across customer and functional teams and tailors practice planning and execution accordingly.

Other

Embody our culture and values

Responsibilities

Required/Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Information Technology, Business, or related field AND 6+ years solution delivery, practice management, customer-facing consulting, or portfolio management experience

OR Master’s Degree in Engineering, Information Technology, Business, or related field AND 4+ years solution delivery, practice management, customer-facing consulting, or portfolio management experience

OR equivalent experience.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Information Technology, Business, or related field AND 12+ years solution delivery, practice management, customer-facing consulting, or portfolio management experience

OR Master’s Degree in Engineering, Information Technology, Business, or related field AND 10+ years solution delivery, practice management, customer-facing consulting, or portfolio management experience

OR equivalent experience.

5+ years relevant work experience within customer industry.

Project Management Institute (PMI) or equivalent Project Management certification.

Prosci or equivalent certification.

Qualifications

Account Management

Business Acumen

Business Analysis

Business Knowledge

Business Relationship Management

Challenger Mindset

Change Leadership Facilitation

Change Management

Competitive Analysis

Conflict Resolution

Consultative Selling

Creativity

Customer Success

Data Analysis

Decision Making

Developing and Motivating Talent

English Language Proficiency

Executive Relationships

Financial Analysis

Inclusive Leadership

Influencing for Impact

Interpersonal Flexibility

Microsoft Product Knowledge

Microsoft Support

Multi-Initiative Program Management

Negotiation

Operational Excellence

Oral Communication

Presentations

Problem Solving

Project Management

Quality Assurance

Storytelling

Team Development

Team Facilitation

Technical Sales

Technology Industry Knowledge

Trusted Advisor

Written Communication

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