Associate Customer Advocacy

JR United Kingdom; Brighton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic role as a Customer Referral & Advocacy Executive EMEA at a leading marketing team, focusing on customer advocacy initiatives. You will build and nurture relationships with customer advocates, coordinate events, manage content creation, and support business growth through customer insights. Ideal for those skilled in customer engagement and event management, eager to drive impactful marketing strategies.

Qualifications

• Experience in customer engagement and advocacy principles required.
• Ability to work within a distributed team.
• Working knowledge of CRM systems essential.

Responsibilities

• Identify and build relationships with potential customer advocates.
• Coordinate customer advocacy events and webinars.
• Manage customer advocacy program reporting.

Skills

Customer engagement

Stakeholder management

Event organization

Content creation

CRM usage

Tools

CRM systems

Job description

Social network you want to login/join with:

The Associate within Customer Advocacy Program is responsible for supporting the development and execution of customer advocacy initiatives within the marketing team. This person will play a key role in identifying, engaging, and nurturing customer advocates to help champion our products and services.

The Customer Referral & Advocacy Executive EMEA will report to the Senior Manager, Customer Marketing and Advocacy EMEA in a team of three. The person will also work closely with the wider Marketing EMEA team, Customer Success, Professional Services, Sales Operations and regional sales teams as well as partner teams.

The Customer Referral & Advocacy Executive EMEA will be responsible for managing a number of initiatives and supporting on wider programmes within the Customer Marketing Team in EMEA.

Some of your responsibilities:

• Identify potential customer advocates and build relationships.
• Assist in organizing customer advocacy events and webinars. Recruit and brief Verint customer advocates for public speaking or other engagements across Verint internal and third-party events.
• Coordinate the collection of customer testimonials and case studies.
• Assist in maintaining the customer advocacy database.
• Assist in the creation of customer advocacy content together with the Senior Content Writer EMEA and an external agency.
• Support in customer advocacy program reporting including activities in supporting new business and cross/up sell opportunities.
• Manage requests from internal teams for referencing opportunities – including requests for calls/visits and information to support new business opportunities/RFP’s. Ensure timely and high-quality responses to teams to support goals for driving sales pipeline.
• Support delivery of Verint’s annual Customer Awards event in London, a highly renowned evening which celebrates our customers’ achievements and their project’s visibility. The Awards also fuel the ongoing pipeline of customer stories and assets that drive preference for Verint. Responsibilities will include venue booking, internal and external event promotion, management of event logistics and customer travel.
• Experience of customer engagement and advocacy principles.
• Understanding of competitor customer advocacy programs.
• Awareness of industry regulations related to customer data.
• Ability to work within a geographically distributed team spread between multiple time zones and cultures.
• Ability to work across different business functions and external stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of using customer relationship management (CRM) systems.
• Ability to create and edit simple marketing collateral.