Customer Success Management

This Customer Success Manager role will managed Modern Work customers in their area. This is an exciting role that will drive usage and consumption of customer owned workloads that will create bonds with our Enterprise customers and will fuel customer success, retention, growth, renewal and inoculate us against the competition. Your work will be focused on helping our customers achieve their desired business outcomes and IT goals by working with Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams workloads, with focus on Meetings, Teams as a Platform, and emerging technologies like Microsoft Viva.

**Responsibilities**:
Understanding the Customer
- Utilizes information on customer business, needs, and strategy to support customer success. Meets with and holds conversations with customer stakeholders and business decision makers (e.g., Chief Experience Officers [CxOs]) to develop deep understanding of the customer business, business outcomes, competition, and industry trends, challenging the customer as appropriate. Ensures customer insights are communicated to internal teams (e.g., Engineering, Specialists, Account teams). Aligns with internal teams.

Business Value Communication
- Identifies and articulates business value of solutions for customer organization through demonstrations, storytelling, etc. to provide evidence of business value in the customer environment. Tailors relevant customer stories and industry, competitive, and/or Microsoft best practices, leveraging knowledge of product capability and scenarios to support business outcomes.

Business Value Realization
- Performs assessments and analyses to optimize Microsoft solutions against relevant business goals measured by business and adoption key performance indicators (KPIs), success measures, and customer expectations, as appropriate. Adapts customer success plans for anticipated tradeoffs as needed. Leverages understanding of strategic intent and business outcomes to facilitate discussions around KPIs. Optimizes value realization by engaging other resources (e.g., Engineering, Partners) and ensuring progress reporting.

Guiding Customer Strategy
- Influences customer strategy and future growth for Microsoft by cultivating customer preference for Microsoft programs/solutions that drive impact for the customer and establishing Microsoft as a leader through new reference cases. Provides feedback to Microsoft on customer development needs. Resolves blockers as needed to guide customer strategy. Engages with and influences business and technical decision makers by providing feedback or insights to help customers define and realize their digital and business transformational targets.

Partner Engagement
- Engages with, leverages, and seeks to build relationships with relevant internal and external partners and/or Services to support business outcomes. Leverages strategic offerings for plays with partners based on knowledge of the customer. Builds a joint plan with partners. Recommends partnerships with high strategic value and cultivates their support.

Cross-Team Collaboration
- Leads and inspires internal and customer teams across functions to support business outcomes and enable execution of customer success through One Microsoft, and inform programmatic improvements. Identifies and integrates key stakeholders to support execution. Shares best practices and engages in global Customer Success Manager community.

Operational Excellence
- Manages operational excellence and customer health by ensuring consumption process compliance and managing pipeline (e.g., customer relationship management systems), engagements, and blockers through leveraging key tools, programs, and insights (e.g., End Customer Investment Funds [ECIF], Consumption and Renewal Review). Establishes and maintains governance processes. Leads rhythm of business (ROB), reports on overall health across territories within the Operating Unit (OU), interpreting and providing data-based insights focused on the business unit. Shares success stories and best practices across communities and provides feedback and insights into the playbook for optimization.

Execution Excellence
- Ensures execution and assessment of the delivery of services/programs that drive customer objectives, outcomes, success, and help realize customer digital transformation (e.g., facilitating workshops), engaging other resources as necessary. Proactively guides customers in solving business issues, engaging other resources as needed.

Change ManagementCustomer Advocacy
- Acts as the voice of the customer and Partner by driving new feedback, blockers, insights, resources, etc., across communities and internal teams (e.g., product teams, programs, policies, Engineering) so they can be added and prioritized, leveraging relevant tools (e.g., OneList). Drives action based on feedback and advocates on the customer's behalf to drive resolution. Brings in advocates to showcase success as references and advocates for customers by sharing stor