OpenBlue Customer Advisor

Alloy Enterprises; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson Controls is seeking an OpenBlue Customer Advisor in the UK to partner with customers and deliver value across the lifecycle. You will drive onboarding, adoption, advocacy, and growth for OpenBlue solutions in large facilities, leveraging OT know‑how and a customer‑first mindset.

The role requires strong communication, enterprise CRM experience, and the ability to navigate a matrix organization while delivering measurable outcomes. Travel up to 10% may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, or a related field.
• 5+ years recent experience in HVAC systems, building automation systems, energy management solutions, facility management, or building maintenance services.
• Hands‑on experience with installation, deployment, or use of 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, coordinating across teams and mobilizing resources.
• Enjoys learning new things in a self‑directed fashion, 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.

Responsibilities

• End‑to‑end delivery of customer value for OpenBlue solutions.
• Onboarding customers: kickoff calls, deployment milestones, train end users, share resources, confirm scope per contract.
• Adoption: help customers understand and use the product to achieve business outcomes, monitor usage analytics, and conduct regular check‑ins.
• Advocacy: triage issues, provide basic support, gather feedback, and close loops via NPS surveys and QBR participation.
• Retention and Growth: ensure customers' success definitions are met and identify opportunities for further value.

Skills

Communication

CRM

Project management

Matrix leadership

Self-directed learning

Process improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or business

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 entrepreneurial 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

  • Customer Onboarding

    • 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.