Register Your Interest: Senior Customer Success Manager (9 month fixed-term contract)

LinkedIn; Netherlands; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

LinkedIn is seeking a Senior Customer Success Manager for the Benelux market on a 9-month fixed-term contract. You will partner with Relationship Managers to drive onboarding, large-scale deployments, and high product adoption of Sales Navigator across enterprise customers.

You’ll act as a trusted advisor to c-level stakeholders, define success plans with KPIs, measure ROI, and help customers realize value from LinkedIn’s Sales Solutions. Fluency in Dutch is preferred.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in a Customer Success, Account Management or Management Consultancy role.
• Fluency in Dutch is preferred.
• Strong knowledge of the Customer Success Industry.
• Experience presenting to large audiences e.g. Sales Kick-offs, Executive Forums.
• Experience implementing change management best practices to drive product adoption.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Relationship Managers to enable clients on the optimal way to implement a successful modern selling program using LinkedIn's Sales Navigator platform, in order to drive overall customer adoption and success.
• Develop, execute and continuously review customer success plans to define shared goals, KPIs, and align our LinkedIn Sales Solutions to our customers organizational objectives, initiatives and strategies. Ability to prove ROI.
• Act as a trusted advisor to key customer stakeholders and executive sponsors to drive product adoption, ensuring they leverage the solution to achieve full business value, through training, consulting, communication about product features and regular metrics review.
• Think scale, encouraging clients to utilize appropriate LinkedIn resources to increase their proficiency with Sales Navigator and with other modern selling features on the LinkedIn platform.
• Mitigate churn by tracking customer activity and creating custom plans for accounts at risk; partner with RM on mitigation strategies including attendance at Strategic Value Reviews where necessary.

Skills

Customer success

Account management

Management consultancy

Change management

Stakeholder engagement

Project management

Dutch language

Education

BA/BS or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Salesforce

Gainsight

Microsoft Office

Job description

LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We're also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that's built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun - where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.

This position is a 9-month fixed-term contract.

The Senior Customer Success Manager (CSM) partners closely with Relationship Managers to ensure LinkedIn Enterprise Customers achieve a significant return on investment, and feel successful with their LinkedIn Sales solution.
The CSM serves as a key consultant to assigned accounts, to support effective onboarding, complex implementation and driving engagement of products and services to new and existing customers.
As a Customer Success Manager for Sales Solutions, you will ensure customer success by liaising with key stakeholders (c-level executives, sales leaders, program managers) within our customer base to plan and drive large scale deployments. Taking a consultative and prescriptive approach to our customers is crucial, acting as their trusted advisor and consistently showing the value and ROI our solution can offer.
Sales Navigator is constantly evolving through integrations with CRM, Marketing Automation, Business Intelligence, Sales Acceleration and Web Conferring applications, a core part of this role will be empowering our customers to activate these by showing how critical they are to help their business to thrive.
Our main goal is to achieve our customers outcomes by turning the vision they hold for their business into a reality and delivering and articulating value.
You will be a product expert; you will be a change management leader, helping your clients adopt modern selling best practices; and you will be a core part of LinkedIn's retention strategy, preventing customer attrition (churn) by ensuring customers get value from their investment in Sales Navigator.

Responsibilities

• Working and partnering with our Linkedin Sales Solutions customers for the Benelux market
• Partner with the Relationship Managers on assigned accounts to enable clients on the optimal way to implement a successful modern selling program using LinkedIn's Sales Navigator platform, in order to drive overall customer adoption and success
• Develop, execute and continuously review customer success plans to define shared goals, KPIs, and align our LinkedIn Sales Solutions to our customers organizational objectives, initiatives and strategies. Ability to prove ROI.
• Act as a trusted advisor to key customer stakeholders and executive sponsors to drive product adoption, ensuring they leverage the solution to achieve full business value, through training, consulting, communication about product features and regular metrics review
• Think scale, encouraging clients to utilize appropriate LinkedIn resources (i.e. community forums, learning center, workshops, etc.) to increase their proficiency with Sales Navigator and with other modern selling features on the LinkedIn platform
• Mitigate churn by tracking customer activity and creating custom plans for accounts at risk; partner with RM on mitigation strategies including attendance at Strategic Value Reviews where necessary
• Proactively identify risk and deliver coaching to improve utilization of low usage clients
• Monitor customer engagement and health metrics in assigned accounts, analyses and develop strategies to increase usage i.e. sales leadership educational sessions, best practices workshop
• Document all communication with users and accounts accurately and in a timely manner via system tools (Gainsight). Ensure that issues are escalated appropriately to appropriate internal departments and management.
• Use LinkedIn, client and other data to derive insights to drive greater client engagement
• Become a client partner in maximizing the benefits of their investment with Sales Navigator
• Maintain a deep understanding of LinkedIn products and industry knowledge to effectively drive greater customer engagement on the most relevant features/functionality for their specific business needs

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years working in a Customer Success, Account Management or Management Consultancy role

Preferred Qualifications

• Fluency in Dutch
• BA/BS or equivalent practical experience
• Strong knowledge of the Customer Success Industry
• Ability to establish and grow trusted relationships with internal stakeholders and clients to allow you to be a trusted advisor and consultant, and a modern selling industry expert.
• Experience presenting to large audiences e.g. Sales Kick-offs, Executive Forums
• Experience implementing change management best practices to drive product or process adoption
• Experience driving large scale global deployments
• Excellent organizational, project management, consulting and time management skills
• Experience analysing data, trends and client information to identify product or service growth opportunities
• Proficient in Salesforce, Gainsight & Microsoft Office

Suggested Skills

• Communication skills
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Project Management

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