Customer Success Manager

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Your Mission:

The Customer Success Manager is responsible for driving the ongoing satisfaction, adoption enablement, and outcomes realization for Medidata's customers. They act as internal champion to coordinate the cross-functional motions required for sustained customer success and growth. Key focus areas will include retention, advocacy, adoption, and growth for a defined portfolio of customers.

·        Lead the development and execution of action plans to achieve identified customer outcomes for a defined portfolio of accounts

·        Manage customer interactions in a manner that establishes credibility and trust as a business advisor to a specified portfolio of accounts

·        Collaborate cross-functionally to shepherd customers through an optimal customer journey that engenders strong satisfaction, supports high-levels of software utilization, and enables true business value attainment.

·        Maintain an effective account governance process in collaboration with customers key stakeholders as well as the internal account team.

·        Execute growth, advocacy, and adoption plays at named accounts to increase customer utilization, maturity, and drive demand for incremental solutions.

·        Achieve outcomes based on the measurement of key performance indicators for a defined portfolio of accounts.

·        Maintain a portfolio of accounts with low churn, high adoption, and high health scores.

·        Advocate customer needs/issues cross-functionally to complete full resolution by developing and running cross-functional remediation/escalation plays.

·        Provide timely updates to commercial teams about potential qualified opportunities.

·        Continually work to improve the Customer Success methodologies, including processes and documentation across Medidata

·        Advocate on behalf of the Customer Success organization, internally and externally, to show our specialization in customer satisfaction, adoption, and outcomes enablement.

·        Evangelize Customer Success cross-functionally to promote the work being done by the CS organization

Your Competencies:

·        Familiarity with customer success organizations

·        Orientation toward problem solving with a systematic and managed approach

·        Technical aptitude with an ability to understand SaaS and software business models

·        Social Skills for interactions with sales, systems engineering, product development, and other members of cross-functional teams

·        Urgency in execution and tendency toward speed with ability to adapt and change

·        Empathy for customers

·        Strong verbal/written communication and organizational skills

·        Business acumen including experience working in a B2B environment

·        Influence abilities through persuasion, negotiation, and consensus building

·        Exercise independent judgment in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results

Your Education & Experience:

·        Experience within life sciences or medical devices industry experience; clinical trial software or similar a plus

·        Experience in marketing, customer success, sales, or services

·        Experience in a direct customer facing role

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