OpenBlue Customer Advisor

YDU JC Air Cond & Ref Inc.- Dubai; Greater London; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson Controls in the United Kingdom is seeking an OpenBlue Customer Advisor to partner with customers and drive value throughout the full lifecycle. You will deliver training, adoption programs, and act as a trusted advisor to ensure outcomes align with contract objectives.

This role requires strong stakeholder management, HVAC/building automation experience, and the ability to thrive in a fast-moving environment within a large global company. Travel up to 10% may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, or a related field is required.
• Strong customer relationship management experience with enterprise customers.
• Excellent communication skills to interact with stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience delivering training, product demonstrations, and handling operational questions.
• Ability to lead within a matrix organization and coordinate across teams.

Responsibilities

• Deliver end-to-end value for OpenBlue solutions across the customer lifecycle.
• Participate in kickoff calls, understand customer goals, and train users on value metrics.
• Act as a trusted advisor, monitor adoption, and drive value creation with customers.
• Coordinate with product and commercial teams to reflect customer feedback and issues.
• Manage multiple customers, maintain action plans, and track success metrics.

Skills

Customer relationship management

Communication skills

Project management

German language skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Self-directed learning

Process improvement

Energy management knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, or a related field

Job description

About the job At Johnson Controls, we’re shaping the future to create a world that’s safe, comfortable, and sustainable. Our global team creates innovative, integrated solutions to make cities more connected and buildings more intelligent. We are passionate about improving the way the world lives, works, and plays. The future requires bold ideas, an entrepreneuriales mind‑set and collaboration across boundaries. You need a career focused on tomorrow. Tomorrow needs you. We offer you a highly innovative and promising industry in an international environment. In this role you are given the responsibility to shape our common future business.

What You Will Do

OpenBlue is a complete suite of AI‑enabled smart building software solutions that delivers impactful outcomes in energy efficiency and sustainability, equipment uptime, facilities team productivity, workplace planning, and workplace experiences that combines Johnson Controls’ 140 years of building expertise with cutting‑edge technology. We are seeking an OpenBlue Customer Advisor to partner with customers to deliver value. You will drive successful outcomes for customers and serve as a key consultant throughout the entire customer lifecycle. This is a great opportunity for someone who likes a challenge, is comfortable with a start‑up environment in a large company, and open to growing the position as we grow as our business.

How You Will Do It

Responsible for end‑to‑end delivery of customer value for OpenBlue solutions

• Participate in customer kick‑off and key deployment milestone calls
• Understand customer personas, end users, use cases and goals; Ask questions to become deeply familiar with your customers’ businesses challenges
• Train end users on the OpenBlue customer value framework and success metrics to be measured
• Share product training resources and technical support processes
• Validate the completion of scope as per contract and customer needs
• Provide customers with a guided product tour after delivery

Adoption

• Become a trusted advisor by helping customers to understand and use the product to achieve business outcomes, including end users as well as internal and external channel partners
• Monitor product usage analytics and provide feedback to customers
• Establish 30‑60‑90 day check‑ins for new customers followed by regular touchpoints to discuss adoption, issues, and value creation

Advocacy (Build trust / transparency)

• Review any open issues / technical support tickets with customers
• Provide initial triage, basic support, and customer training to resolve problems quickly, leveraging technical support teams as needed
• Monitor customer health and value delivered; Conduct Net Promoter Score (NPS) surveys and ensure all feedback loops are closed
• Participate in Customer Business Reviews (QBRs) in partnership with digital commercial account managers
• Serve as the voice of the customer and share feedback with Product Management and Commercial teams on how we can better serve customers

Retention and Growth

• Ensure we are meeting customers’ definition of success
• Identify other opportunities to provide value
• Drive new business growth by earning favorable customer references

What we look for

• Required Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, or a related field.
• Minimum 5+ years recent experience in HVAC systems, building automation systems, energy management solutions, facility management, or building maintenance services.
• Hands‑on experience working with installation, deployment, or use of Operational Technologies (OT) in medium to large facilities.
• Experience delivering user training, product demonstrations, and addressing operational questions to drive end results.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, to work with customers or partners across operational and senior levels.
• Strong track record in customer relationship management with enterprise customers, supported by endorsements from references, in roles such as Customer Success Manager, Account Manager, Project Manager, Performance Assurance Engineer, and/or Technical Sales.
• Extremely organized project management skills to manage multiple customers in your portfolio, maintaining detailed notes and action plans.
• Demonstrated ability to lead within a matrix organization, effectively coordinating across teams and mobilizing resources.
• Enjoys learning new things in a self‑directed fashion, consistently building new skills, knowledge, and expertise in a fast‑changing environment with minimal formal training.
• Experience driving process improvements to enhance customer satisfaction.
• Candidates must already have a work authorization that would permit them to work for Johnson Controls in the UK.
• Preferred Certified Energy Manager® (CEM) certification (Association of Energy Engineers); Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) Certified Measurement & Verification Professional (CMVP) certification or EVO Performance Measurement and Verification Analyst (PMVA) or Performance Measurement and Verification Expert (PMVE) certification.
• Experience with smart building software and/or energy management systems.
• German language skills.
• The role may include up to 10% travel.

Johnson Controls: Enhancing the Intelligence of Buildings

Your buildings have a purpose. They are places for people to live or work. Facilities for learning or healing. Venues for entertainment and shopping. Sites for the specialized storage of tangible goods or mission‑critical data. Your buildings have a huge variety of functions; they are central to your mission. This is where Johnson Controls comes in, helping drive the outcomes that matter most. Through a full range of systems and digital solutions, we make your buildings smarter. A smarter building is safer, more comfortable, more efficient, and, ultimately, more sustainable. Most important, smarter buildings let you focus more intensely on your unique mission. Better for your people. Better for your bottom line. Better for the planet. At Johnson Controls, we’ve been making buildings smarter since 1885, and our capabilities, depth of innovation experience, and global reach have been growing ever since. Today, we offer the world’s largest portfolio of building products, technologies, software, and services; we put that portfolio to work to transform the environments where people live, work, learn and play.