Customer Success Manager
Port Melbourne - Australia
Job Summary
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Job Summary
The Customer Success Manager is responsible for driving initiatives that enhance customer engagement satisfaction and retention throughout the customer lifecycle. The CSM partners on the post sales customer journey developing strategies to resolve pain points improve customer experience and maximize the value realized from products. The CSM will help build best-in-class retention and satisfaction developing a revenue generating success plan and working with cross-functional teams to ensure a world-class customer experience and value realization. Acts as a trusted strategic advocate that drives customer engagement adoption and retention ultimately enabling customer success and contributing to long-term business growth. Responsible for post-sale relationships including enablement renewals upselling and collaborating with the Service Manager to support and monitor service management while supporting the overall customer experience. The role requires an individual with exceptional influencing and interpersonal skills and a results-driven approach.
Responsibilities
Onboarding
Facilitate customer onboarding training (ECP best practices) and resource sharing (user guides FAQs etc.)
Develop and track success plans for effective adoption and value realization
Adoption and Success Management
Develops maintains and tracks the progress of a Customer Success Plan. Conducts regular CBRs with customers for strategic business conversations
Proactively monitors customer utilization performance and compliance to drive product and process adoption
Able to articulate Equinixs products (current future) to educate customers on concepts practices and recommend add-ons
Collect and manage customer feedback providing information to relevant teams to improve the customer experience
Accountable for driving incremental sales and retaining existing revenue by proactively sharing fit-for-purpose benefits that support adoption / growth and capture as CSQLs
Account Management & Retention & Growth
Serve as primary post-sales contact and strategic consultation
Proactively manage renewals and retention
Flag churn risks and identify growth opportunities
Issue & Escalation Management
Assesses issue/escalation to validate prioritize and progress accordingly
Ensure adherence to standard operating procedures policies/rules/restrictions and resolve customer issues and escalations
Engage stakeholders and conduct post-mortem analyses
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Collaborates across cross-functional teams (e.g. Delivery Support Sales Marketing Product Operations) to enhance customer experience
Support organizational evolution and ongoing process improvements
Qualifications
- 4 years of experience in Customer Success Account Management Customer Experience Service Delivery Customer Engagement or a similar customer-facing role.
- Experience working within B2B technology SaaS cloud telecommunications digital infrastructure or related industries.
- Proven ability to build and maintain trusted customer relationships while driving customer satisfaction and business outcomes.
- Experience working within account teams to align service delivery and customer success initiatives with customer and business objectives.
- Demonstrated success driving customer adoption retention and long-term value realization.
- Experience identifying churn risks and implementing proactive retention strategies.
- Experience managing customer escalations and coordinating cross-functional teams to achieve successful outcomes.
- Proven ability to conduct business reviews and engage with senior customer stakeholders.
- Customer-centric mindset with exceptional relationship-building and stakeholder management capabilities.
- Strong communication influencing and presentation skills.
- Strategic thinker who can align customer goals with business outcomes.
- Proactive problem-solver with strong risk identification and mitigation skills.
- Analytical and data-driven with the ability to interpret customer health usage and performance metrics.
- Change-enablement mindset comfortable leading onboarding transitions adoption initiatives and process improvements.
- Negotiation and financial acumen to support renewal discussions demonstrate value and identify growth opportunities.
- Ability to influence without direct authority and build alignment across multiple teams.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience with Customer Success platforms such as Gainsight and CRM tools such as Salesforce.
- Experience managing enterprise or strategic customer relationships.
- Knowledge of customer lifecycle management retention strategies and customer success methodologies.
- Experience working with customer health scoring adoption analytics and success planning frameworks.
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This posting is for a backfill position meaning it is to fill an existing vacancy within our organization.Required Experience:
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About Company
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) connects businesses with partners and customers around the world through a global platform of high performance data centers, containing dynamic ecosystems and the broadest choice of networks. Platform Equinix connects more than 4,000 enterprises, cloud, d ... View more