Customer Success Manager - SaaS
About this position
The Customer Success Manager at Oracle SaaS is responsible for ensuring the success of SaaS customers, driving value from their investment, and expanding their usage. The role involves collaborating with sales teams, developing account strategies, maintaining customer relationships, and coordinating activities across different pillars.
Responsibilities
• Collaborate with the Sales Manager and broader account team to develop and deliver an overall account strategy and plan for the customer, that directs company resources to encourage renewal and return of investment cross pillar.
• Develop and maintain a continuous close relationship with the relevant Account Team throughout the customer lifecycle.
• Facilitate relationships across various customer teams, brands, and/or departments to further strengthen Oracle’s partnership with customers.
• Regularly provide visibility of account at an executive level both internally and externally, defining progress against customers’ business objectives; any metrics that define success to the customer (return on investment); and identifying risks and appropriate mitigations.
• Deliver regular business reviews and success plans to senior executives and key business collaborators.
• Coordinate cross pillar activities across the account to ensure significant achievements for your customer such as upgrades, new releases and new features are managed effectively and with no adverse impact on co-existing pillars and identifying lessons learnt for future achievements within or across pillar.
• Engage and understand the customers cloud strategy within and cross pillar in order to guide the customer by providing resources that can assist their strategic business direction across pillar.
• Support other CSMs in their role acting as a ‘coach’ in working effectively with the customers support service to ensure it is being effective for enhancement requests and blocking issues.
• Develop a strong relationship with the senior leadership in your customer on a technical and business level.
• Support in collaborating with Oracle’s Reference team to ensure ‘reference fatigue’ is avoided and customers can take advantage of our reference program.
• Understand the value of the internal Oracle processes and tools available to
Requirements
• Creative person who loves a challenge.
• Experienced and self-motivated individual.
• Ability to work at a strategic level across all product pillars in the cloud.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to develop and deliver account strategies.
• Relationship-building skills with customers and internal teams.
• Ability to provide visibility of account progress at an executive level.
• Strong understanding of cloud strategies and business direction.
• Leadership skills to guide and support other CSMs.
• Ability to develop strong relationships with senior leadership.
• Familiarity with Oracle’s internal processes and tools.