Bachelor's Degree in Business, Sociology, Psychology, Computer Science or related field AND 6+ years customer success, solution delivery, practice management, customer-facing consulting, or portfolio management experience
OR Master's Degree in Business, Sociology, Psychology, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years customer success, solution delivery, practice management, customer-facing consulting, or portfolio management experience
OR equivalent experience
Preferred Qualifications (PQs)
Bachelor's Degree in Business, Sociology, Psychology, Computer Science or related field AND 12+ years customer success, solution delivery, practice management, customer-facing consulting, or portfolio management experience
OR Master's Degree in Business, Sociology, Psychology, Computer Science, or related field AND 10+ years customer success, solution delivery, practice management, customer-facing consulting, or portfolio management experience
OR equivalent experience
5+ years relevant work experience within customer industry
Microsoft or competitor equivalent (e.g., AWS) certification in relevant technologies (e.g., Azure, 365)
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Foundation certification or equivalent service management certification
Project Management Institute (PMI) or equivalent Project Management certification
Prosci or equivalent certification
Customer Relationship Management
Builds customer, partner, and internal stakeholder engagement models. Manages and/or supports foundational relationships with key customer stakeholders and technical professionals to enable quality solution delivery and health using partnerships with other account team leaders in collaboration with more experienced colleagues. Develops customer relationships beyond the current Unified Support contract consumers with a focus on understanding business priorities and how they align and realize the business value for customers and Microsoft.
Spportsfoundational relationships with key customer stakeholders and technical professionals to enable quality solution delivery and health using partnerships with other account team leaders and with guidance from more experienced colleagues.
Identifies, navigates, communicates, and influences key customer technical and business stakeholders at different levels. Guides and leads conversations to facilitate the achievement of customer business objectives by leveraging their investment in Microsoft. Maps internal roles to customer priorities to action the needs of customers. Holds, maintains, and nurtures internal stakeholder relationships. Learns how to establish senior/executive internal relationships. Develops communication techniques for holding business value conversations at customer executive levels.
Gathers information on the business and Information Technology objectives for customer organizations to identify customer priorities and map them to appropriate solutions. Contributes to the development of a shared customer account plan to support customer objectives using partnerships with other account team leaders.
Customer Success Leadership and Customer Strategy and Growth: You willlisten to conversations with customers and begins to align objectives with the current Microsoft portfolio of work in the customer account.
You will align with the account team to link Customer Success Plans (CSPs) with account plan priorities and develop bookable programs of work.
Customer Success leadership - Delivery and program Management: You will support the delivery of program planning and customer-facing program reviews, prioritization of engagements, and engagement with key technical stakeholders to address agreed-upon customer outcomes and account priorities to deliver ongoing customer success.
You will initiate conversations with customers to connect customer objectives and the current Microsoft portfolio of work in the customer account. Adopts the organizational and customer success strategy and ensure you align Microsoft technology and services with the customer goals and objectives.
You will meet consumption milestones as you track adoption and usage of Microsoft products and services, work with customers to identify areas where adoption could be improved and takes action to drive usage while you develop and leverage an
understanding of retention and churn in their customer portfolio to begin identifying potential opportunities where retention may become an issue.
Technical Relevance
Understands, identifies, and aligns Microsoft solutions, and technical capabilities (e.g., Azure, Modern Work, Dynamics) to customer needs and priorities. Leverages technical aptitude and industry awareness to translate customer interactions into customer business impact and value. Identifies customer scenarios and aligns with technical specialists to identify relevant cross-cloud technology solutions. Develops an awareness of the cloud technology marketplace, including Microsoft competitors.