Senior Customer Success Manager, Strategic Account Services

Amazon; Tempe (AZ); On-site; USD 72,000 - 154,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Senior Customer Success Manager for the Strategic Account Services team located in Tempe, Arizona. This role focuses on driving business growth and ensuring Seller satisfaction through providing customized insights and fostering strong Seller relationships. Candidates should have experience in client management, data analysis, and strategic planning, with a Bachelor's degree preferred. The successful candidate will lead initiatives that promote Seller success and optimize service delivery.

Qualifications

• 4+ years professional experience in Customer Success or Account Management.
• Proven track record of building relationships with stakeholders.
• Ability to manipulate large data sets for insights.

Responsibilities

• Drive Seller business growth through customized insights and recommendations.
• Develop strategic joint business plans with Sellers.
• Analyze data trends to improve metrics for Seller portfolios.

Skills

Client management

Data analysis

Problem-solving

Strategic insights

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

CRM tools

Oracle Business Intelligence

Microsoft Office Suites

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Description

The Strategic Account Services (SAS) organization is seeking a Senior Customer Success Manager to shape the future of the program. The Senior Customer Success Manager drives business growth for some of the most influential Sellers on the Amazon Store, ensuring Seller satisfaction by delivering an optimal level of service through strategic insights and relentlessly high operational standards. In this role, you will own building and executing strategic joint business plans with your Sellers; collaborating with them to explore innovative ways to identify and execute new selection, merchandising, traffic and conversion drivers, and operational improvement opportunities.

Description

The Strategic Account Services (SAS) organization is seeking a Senior Customer Success Manager to shape the future of the program. The Senior Customer Success Manager drives business growth for some of the most influential Sellers on the Amazon Store, ensuring Seller satisfaction by delivering an optimal level of service through strategic insights and relentlessly high operational standards. In this role, you will own building and executing strategic joint business plans with your Sellers; collaborating with them to explore innovative ways to identify and execute new selection, merchandising, traffic and conversion drivers, and operational improvement opportunities.

The ideal candidate for this role should possess client management skills with the keen ability to work backwards with Sellers to identify and prioritize the right inputs and outputs to deliver value and growth.

They will be able to manage multiple workflows in a fast-paced work environment and actively participate in continuous improvement initiatives to multiply impact beyond their portfolios. Above all, they should demonstrate ownership and the ability to embrace and navigate ambiguity and complexity.

They are agile, inventive, and an advocate for their Seller's experience on the Amazon Store. If you are interested in growing Amazon’s leading brands, then we’re interested in you.

Key job responsibilities

Responsibilities

Customer Success Managers are responsible for driving Seller business growth by providing customized insights and recommendations, educating regarding relevant tools, products, and services, and delivering a positive experience with our program. The key responsibilities of a Senior Customer Success Manager include but are not limited to:

Business Growth

• Identify, action and/or provide advice on how to improve business input metrics that drive growth and improve end customer experience. Identify what is hindering growth, develop solutions, and test before scaling to benefit to impacted Sellers.
• Analyze data and trends to identify, action and/or influence long term to maximize potential for your assigned portfolio of Sellers.
• Act as a strategic and influential partner for your Sellers. Proactively seek out new opportunities for customers and Sellers. Create tailored solutions and recommendations, where out of the box thinking is necessary. Present compelling value propositions using a strategic and consultative approach.
• Lead business strategy development and design long term account plans, collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams and your Sellers finding joint areas of opportunity to drive customer success with Amazon.
• Possess the ability to manage and deliver against complex account goals where strategy is not defined. Able to make tradeoffs between short term customer needs and longer-term strategic investment.
• Implement and track metrics to record the success and quality of your portfolio of Sellers. Use these metrics to guide your work and uncover hidden areas of opportunity.
  
  

Seller Relationship Management

• Build effective working relationships with your Sellers; be a trusted advisor and a business advocate.
• Deliver timely, accurate and professional operational support to all Sellers in your portfolio within a specified SLA.
• Drive optimal program and Customer Success Manager satisfaction.
• Liaise with other partner teams and coordinate cross-functionally to resolve Seller issues and questions quickly with high quality.
• Play a “consultant” role with oversight of key strategic activities that are underway for the Seller, following up, escalating, and clearing blockers as appropriate across multiple organizations. Advocate as the voice of the customer internally, using data and anecdotes to drive prioritization, to deliver value across a larger customer set.
• Educate Sellers on how to drive incremental growth on Amazon through frequent education on tools, policies, products and programs. Maintain in-depth knowledge in these areas to keep Sellers informed of new opportunities and tie recommendations to their specific goals and value proposition.
  
  

Program Process Excellence

• Act as a thought leader in defining success criteria and understand business needs of Sellers in an ever-changing business environment.
• Improve team efficiency and optimize previously defined processes. Manage initiatives, deliver critical solutions, improvements, and mechanisms by working independently across teams.
• Assist with the definition and design of tools, standard operating procedures and processes of Seller Services.
• Identify, quantify, and define feature enhancements and new products to improve Amazon product based on customer feedback, data analysis, and feature gaps with competitive products.
• Aggregate themes and data to advocate to function as Voice of the Seller with owning teams to address opportunities at root cause level, keeping their relative experience at the forefront of decision making and design.
• Own project status communication. Consistently impart clear and concise summaries for the projects you own to your leadership/management team and are effective at answering questions in detail.
  
  

About The Team

Strategic Account Services (SAS)

Welcome to Strategic Account Services (SAS). Our Northstar vision is to provide a suite of services designed to help any seller, at any point in their selling journey, accelerate growth in the Amazon store.

Our Charter

Established in 2018, SAS empowers sellers to grow through our tools, models, and insights delivered by Customer Success Managers (CSMs). SAS Customer Success Managers are supported by a team of specialists focused on the inputs to seller growth including increasing selection, improving catalog quality, maximizing Prime commitment, optimizing deals and advertising spend while educating on account health to drive seller growth.

Our Tenets

1 | Focused on growth. We empower SAS selling partners to grow by delivering insights, models, and tools that enable them to increase selection, improve catalog quality, and optimize their business model in the Amazon store.

2 | Working backwards from the customer. We improve the customer experience by enabling better selection and fewer defects in their shopping experience. To do this, we work backwards from the customer, so if customer needs are ever at odds with selling partner ones, we’ll always favor the customer.

3 | All Amazon Sellers should have access to tools and support. We believe that every Amazon selling partner (whether in the SAS suite of programs, or not) should have the tools and support they need to be successful on Amazon, and that all Amazon policies should be applied equally.

4 | Fueled by feedback. We aim for SAS to be the preferred partner for strategic account services. We strive to maximize selling partner engagement, and regularly seek out feedback, bench-marking against external offerings to ensure we’re serving seller needs.

5 | Focused on transparency and honesty. We offer a suite of SAS services, with benefits that are are transparent and accessible to all selling partners. We offer selling partners options so they can make an informed decision about the service offering that best suits their needs.

6 | Invent and Simplify and Automation. We focus on increased scalability through system automation, technical innovation, process standardization, quality control, and operational excellence.

7 | Committed to diversity. We recognize that diversity is not just about gender, but includes race, ethnicity, nationality, sexual identity and religion. SAS is committed to creating a truly diverse team where everyone feels valued, appreciated and included.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience: 4+ years professional experience in Buying, Merchandising, Planning and/or relevant experience within Customer Success, Account Management, Management Consulting and/or relevant experience in negotiating, nurturing, and growing customer relationships.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Goal Attainment: Demonstrated success identifying business opportunities for clients and increasing adoption and utilization of company products.
• Relationship Development Proven track record of building and cultivating relationships with internal and external stakeholders driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts, and ensuring follow-through.
• Data Manipulation: Ability to digest and manipulate large data sets by use of pivot tables, lookups, and compound formulas.
• Data Analysis: Analytical problem-solving ability. Uses data analysis, reporting, and forecasting to guide business decisions.
• Planning: Track record of developing business plans with a demonstrated ability to effectively manage multiple projects and priorities across teams in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in E-Commerce, Corporate Retail, Consulting and/or B2B.
• Communication and presentation skills.
• Effective territory/account management.
• Strategy development with multi-phase execution and delivery: planning, opportunity qualification and creation, stakeholder and executive communication, needs analysis, value engineering, services/partner engagement, opportunity management, and negotiation.
• Understanding of retail math and formulas for the purpose of making business decisions.
• Experience using analytical, account management, and productivity tools including Oracle Business Intelligence, CRM tools like SalesForce, Tableau, and Microsoft Office Suites.
• Self-Starter: Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced environment where continuous innovation is desired and ambiguity is the norm.
  
  

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.


Company - Amazon.com Services LLC

Job ID: A3008819

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Sales, Advertising, and Business Development

• Industries

  Software Development

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