Senior Customer Success Manager

Optimizely; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software development company is looking for a Senior Customer Success Manager in London. This position involves driving customer success, managing renewals, and identifying opportunities within a growing portfolio. Ideal candidates will have significant experience in client relations, excellent communication skills, and a deep understanding of the digital marketing landscape while contributing to enhancing customer satisfaction and revenue growth.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a client-facing role.
• Ability to manage relationships with senior executives.
• Experience in digital marketing is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Drive customer success and manage renewals.
• Develop upsell and cross-sell opportunities.
• Cultivate relationships with senior-level executives.

Skills

Strong customer empathy

Negotiation skills

Communication skills

Analytical orientation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

CRM tools (Salesforce, Gainsight)

Job description

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At Optimizely, we're on a mission to help people unlock their digital potential. We do that by reinventing how marketing and product teams work to create and optimize digital experiences across all channels. With Optimizely One, our industry-first operating system for marketers, we offer teams flexibility and choice to build their stack their way with our fully SaaS, fully decoupled, and highly composable solution.

We are proud to help more than 10,000 businesses, including H&M, PayPal, Zoom, and Toyota, enrich their customer lifetime value, increase revenue and grow their brands. Our innovation and excellence have earned us numerous recognitions as a leader by industry analysts such as Gartner, Forrester, and IDC, reinforcing our role as a trailblazer in MarTech.

At our core, we believe work is about more than just numbers -- it's about the people. Our culture is dynamic and constantly evolving, shaped by every employee, their actions and their stories. With over 1500 Optimizers spread across 12 global locations, our diverse team embodies the "One Optimizely" spirit, emphasizing collaboration and continuous improvement, while fostering a culture where every voice is heard and valued.

Join us and become part of a company that's empowering people to unlock their digital potential!

To get a sneak peek into our culture, find us on Instagram: @optimizely

Introduction

The role of the Senior Customer Success Manager (CSM) will be accountable for driving customer success, leading renewals, creating qualified upsell leads and overall relationship management within the assigned client base.

As a Senior CSM within the organization, this role will be responsible for driving growth while demonstrating the ability to adapt to changing market and customer demands. The Senior CSM will be responsible for identifying new software and services opportunities within assigned client base while driving increasing renewals performance. This role will be accountable for driving financial performance including revenue and margin growth

Job Responsibilities

• Actively prospect and grow existing customers recurring revenue within the customer base
• Up-sell Education and Expert Services and Cross-sell additional products
• Achieve and exceed sales objectives within defined accounts and assigned territory
• Engage, strategize, and cultivate deep relationships with senior level executives at client companies
• Manage renewal pipeline and provide timely and accurate forecast reports
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge of Optimizely' s Commerce products
• Proactively provide smart client research and industry specific information
• Perform sales presentations to position products and services to the customer’s specific needs
• Identify, develop, and maintain long-term constructive and effective client relationships
• Maintain contact regular contact with client regarding account direction, project management issues through QBR’s and scheduled meetings
• Establish and maintain role as client advisor
• Maintain an in-depth understanding of financial status of accounts at all times
• Become a single point of contact for customers, partners, and internal sales for services opportunities
  
  

Knowledge And Experience

• Highly driven individual with strong desire to achieve top results and break through barriers, determined to adapt quickly to changing customer needs
• Strong customer empathy and desire for own company’s financial revenue growth
• Fluency in Arabic or Dutch is a plus, as it will support our work with clients in those regions.
• Demonstrated success using solid oral and written communication and presentation skills to achieve account and sales results
• More than 5 years of experience working in a client facing environment
• Very good technical understanding
• Basic Commercial understanding and experience
• Ability to act autonomously
• Very good presentation and communication skills
• Strong negotiation skills
• High level of energy & enthusiasm for Internet Marketing
• Other digital / direct marketing disciplines an advantage
• Knowledge of CRM tools (i.e. Salesforce and Gainsight)
• Ability to work effectively on multiple projects
• A passion for people, able to use your initiative and willing to go the extra mile
• Have a “Can Do” attitude
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Confident, self-motivated and driven to achieve
• Experience in Customer Success operations in the digital marketing industry
• Excellent planning and organizational skills
• Interpersonal and communication skills
• The ability to work effective across all parts of the organization
• Deep understanding of value drivers in a recurring revenue company
• Analytical and process oriented
• Flexibility in scheduling, occasional travel might be required
  
  

Education

Bachelors degree and preferably further professional training in direct marketing or a Masters degree a plus

Competencies

Establishing Relationships

Navigating Organizations

Prioritizing and Organizing Work

Making Convincing Arguments

Negotiating Agreements

Championing Customer Needs

Optimizely is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Optimizely is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Other

• Industries

  Software Development

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