With over 17,000 employees worldwide, the mission of the Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization is to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft’s products, services, and partnerships. Come join CE&S and help us build a future where customers achieve their business outcomes faster with technology that does more. Are you a tech-savvy cloud loving person that has Cloud and IT (information technology) Service Management blood running in your veins? Do you want to be that key person that helps our more strategic enterprise customers achieve the most out of the Microsoft products and services they use? Do you get your energy from making your customers succeed in making their strategic and transformational cloud projects real? Check out the Lead Customer Success Account Manager (CSAM) role in the Customer Success Unit at Microsoft! Be ready to make an impact! As a Customer Success Account Manager, you are the primary delivery and operations lead and a partner for our more strategic customers, empowering them to achieve more by accelerating their value realization across our Digital Cloud platforms. By leveraging your technical expertise, business acumen and industry perspectives you will be responsible for the end-to-end post sales delivery and support orchestration across the Microsoft and Partner ecosystem to align the right resources at the right time to achieve customer business outcomes. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, leverage your delivery management capabilities and deepen your cloud and industry expertise.
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Responsibilities

Customer Relationship Management

• You will nurture, establish, and expand relationships with key C-level customer stakeholders to enable clear understanding of customer priorities and goals to align quality solution planning, delivery execution and governance.

Customer Success Leadership - Consumption Leadership

• Lead the delivery of Microsoft solutions and take ownership of team orchestration and coordination that accelerates production level consumption and customer adoption across all three clouds (Azure, M365 and Business Applications).
• Ensure there is alignment to top customer priorities to help our customers get value from their Microsoft investments and leverage support agreement to achieve their goals.

Customer Health, Security & Resiliency orchestration

• You will prioritise and optimise your customer portfolio's resiliency and security through operational leadership and mutual accountability. This will involve responsibility on reactive support top level escalations and outages, problem management, and proactive support to result in a healthier customer.

Technical Relevance

• Develop technical competency (specially on Azure) across a breadth of Solution areas which supports customer advice, connecting their business goals to Microsoft solutions

Customer Success Leadership – Customer Strategy and Growth

• Identify , establish and own relationships to uncover customer opportunities and guide value driven deliveries that increase velocity of deployment and adoption of their Microsoft investments.
• Partner with Account team peers to review customer opportunities, drive conversations with customer leadership that define and prioritize the strategic alignment between your customer’s and Microsoft’s goals and objectives.

Customer Success leadership - Delivery and program Management

• Leads the strategic execution of program planning and customer-facing program reviews, prioritization of engagements, and management of key stakeholder and executive expectations to address agreed-upon customer outcomes and account priorities to deliver ongoing customer success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in tech fields or similar experience
• first experience in project management or consulting
• fluent English is a must, German a big plus
• ideally first Microsoft or competitor equivalent (e.g., AWS (Amazon Web Services)) certification in relevant technologies (e.g., Azure, 365)
• ideally Project Management Institute (PMI) or equivalent Project Management certification
• ideally Prosci or equivalent Change Management certifications
• ideally Manufacturing Industry experience

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