Sr. Customer Value Manager - 11587

Coupa; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Coupa is seeking a Senior Customer Value Manager to lead a portfolio of customers with a focus on Business Spend Management. You will develop mutual success plans, engage stakeholders, and influence executive leadership to drive measurable value across P2P/S2C domains.

The role requires strong relationship-building, strategic thinking, and collaboration with pre/post-sales, product, and other teams. Remote-friendly with travel up to 40% across the Eastern US.

Qualifications

• 6 Years P2P and/or S2C domain expertise.
• Customer/client management experience in consulting/BPO or S2C SaaS preferred.
• Strong executive presence and ability to influence stakeholders.
• Willingness to travel up to 40%.

Responsibilities

• Establish yourself as trusted advisor to the customer with strategic direction and advocacy.
• Deliver an exceptional customer experience with proactive communication and orchestrated internal resources.
• Collaborate across the Coupa ecosystem to drive GRR and NRR, aligning business objectives.
• Develop customers into advocates through events, webinars, case studies, and references.
• Strengthen Coupa’s market presence by fostering influential relationships and references.
• Build Tomorrow Together by sharing best practices and driving continuous improvement.

Skills

Customer management

Executive relationships

Negotiation

Data analytics

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Entrepreneurial mindset

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Job description

Coupa makes margins multiply through its community-generated AI and industry-leading total spend management platform for businesses large and small. Coupa AI is informed by trillions of dollars of direct and indirect spend data across a global network of 10M+ buyers and suppliers. We empower you with the ability to predict, prescribe, and automate smarter, more profitable business decisions to improve operating margins.

Why join Coupa?

• Pioneering Technology: At Coupa, we’re at the forefront of innovation, leveraging the latest technology to empower our customers with greater efficiency and visibility in their spend.
• Collaborative Culture: We value collaboration and teamwork, and our culture is driven by transparency, openness, and a shared commitment to excellence.
• Global Impact: Join a company where your work has a global, measurable impact on our clients, the business, and each other.

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The Impact of a Sr. Customer Value Manager at Coupa:

We are seeking a Senior Customer Value Manager to lead a portfolio of customers across different industries and customer segments. In this role, you will be the primary customer‑facing advocate, responsible for developing and driving mutual success plans, engagement strategies, and frameworks for measurable impact. You will use a strong executive presence and a deep understanding of Source‑to‑Pay (or what we call, Business Spend Management) to advise customers on how to transform the way they manage BSM, creating immediate value and efficiency.

Senior Customer Value Managers represent the primary point of contact between Coupa and our customers. As a trusted partner, you will drive customer value by building strong relationships with a variety of stakeholders and customer leaders. You will also work with, coach, and advise customer teams to drive success strategies and mutual goals. In addition, you will collaborate directly with pre‑sales, post‑sales, product, and other internal teams, while also gaining exposure to different customer industries.

• Establish your role as trusted advisor to the customer by bringing strategic direction and providing strong internal advocacy on behalf of your customers
• Deliver an exceptional customer experience with proactive communication, orchestrating the right internal resources, and using the customer engagement model to align, track and evolve customer business objectives
• Collaborate across the Coupa ecosystem to drive GRR and NRR, ensuring customers are achieving the defined business outcomes, realizing value and expanding their Coupa partnership
• Develop customers into advocates by creating opportunities to showcase success via events, webinars, case studies, and analyst references.
• Strengthen Coupa’s market presence by fostering relationships that generate references, peer‑to‑peer influence, and NPS growth.
• Build Tomorrow Together by developing and sharing best practices, challenging the “status quo” and providing feedback to ensure Customer Value Management is continuously improving

Qualifications

• 6 Years P2P and/or S2C domain expertise
• Preferred candidates will have customer / client management experience, either via consulting/BPO experience or from S2C SaaS software/solutions
• Ability to collaborate naturally and incorporate big‑picture, “win‑win” negotiation skills
• Perseverance in both challenging and recurring situations
• An entrepreneurial mindset, focusing on outcome‑based problem solving
• Solid organizational, interpersonal and data analytics skills
• Ability to develop and maintain executive relationships and incorporate associated influencing strategies
• Project management skills, including managing disparate, cross‑functional teams across internal, customer and 3rd party teams.
• Minimum Bachelor’s degree required – Master’s degree is preferred
• Candidate need to physically reside in Eastern US (preferably east of Mississippi river)
• Flexibility to travel up to 40%

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