Associate Customer Value Manager

Mimecast South Africa; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 384,000 - 576,000; Full time

Job summary

Mimecast South Africa is seeking an Associate Customer Value Manager to drive adoption and realise value for a high-volume SMB portfolio. You will translate Mimecast capabilities into customer outcomes, build trusted relationships, and guide customers toward best practices while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

The role emphasizes proactive value realization, data-driven insights, and scalable enablement to protect and grow customer relationships across time zones and regions.

Qualifications

• Customer-facing experience in CS, value management, or related roles.
• Technical aptitude and curiosity about security or SaaS tech.
• Knowledge of Mimecast platform or ability to learn quickly.
• Ability to interpret usage data and health metrics.
• Strong written and verbal communication; influencing stakeholders.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Proficiency with MS Office and common business tools.

Responsibilities

• Drive value through adoption by helping customers utilise Mimecast to achieve outcomes.
• Monitor product adoption across customers and identify gaps early.
• Lead value reviews and translate capabilities into customer-specific use cases.
• Build trusted relationships and act as the voice of the customer inside Mimecast.
• Provide enablement and education via onboarding, sessions, webinars.
• Develop a technical understanding of Mimecast and customer IT environments.
• Guide configuration best practices and escalate when needed.
• Stay current on roadmaps and threat landscape to position new capabilities.
• Protect and grow the customer base by surfacing expansion opportunities.
• Work with data, AI insights, and CRM to track engagement and value.

Skills

Customer-facing experience

Technical aptitude

Security or SaaS curiosity

Mimecast platform knowledge

Data interpretation

Communication and influence

Organization and time management

MS Office proficiency

Tools

Salesforce

Gainsight

Job description

Overview

Customer Value Management is looking for a customer-centric, technically-minded and proactive Associate Customer Value Manager to help customers realise real value from their investment in Mimecast. As the named ACVM for a high-volume portfolio spanning SMB customers, you will drive the adoption and effective utilisation of our products so that customers achieve the security outcomes they set out to. Rather than waiting for issues to arrive, you anticipate needs, guide customers toward best practice, and translate what our technology can do into outcomes that matter to each customer’s business. You will manage a high volume of accounts as the named ACVM on each, building direct relationships while using efficient one-to-many and digital motions to work at scale, and partner closely with Account, Sales and specialist teams to keep customers adopting, protected and successful. The through-line of the role: adoption drives outcomes, and outcomes create value.

What you’ll do

Drive value through adoption Help customers adopt and fully utilise the Mimecast products they own, so that capability translates into protection and measurable outcomes. Monitor product adoption and usage health across your customers; proactively identify gaps, under-utilised capabilities and at-risk behaviour, and act early. Lead structured value reviews that assess progress against each customer’s goals, evidence the outcomes achieved, and agree the next steps to deepen value. Translate Mimecast’s capabilities into customer-specific use cases, connecting features to the customer’s security priorities and business objectives. Be a customer-centric, trusted advisor Build trusted relationships by understanding each customer’s environment, objectives, risks and definition of success. Act as the voice of the customer inside Mimecast, channelling feedback to Product and Engineering to shape the roadmap. Deliver enablement and education - onboarding guidance, best-practice sessions, webinars and one-to-many programmes - that accelerate time-to-value at scale. Apply technical aptitude Develop and maintain a strong working knowledge of the Mimecast platform and of the customer’s wider security and IT environment. Guide customers on configuration best practice and feature enablement; troubleshoot within your remit and escalations done cleanly to the right specialists when needed. Stay current on the product roadmap and the evolving threat landscape, positioning new capabilities as value-enabling opportunities for customers. Protect and grow the customer base Protect revenue by ensuring customers realise ongoing value; spot churn risk early and coordinate the response to mitigate it. Surface expansion and cross-sell opportunities that emerge from adoption insights, and partner with Account and Sales teams to pursue them. Grow advocacy — references, case studies, testimonials and referrals — from customers who are achieving strong outcomes. Work with data, tools and AI Use customer data and health metrics to prioritise where to focus and to make value conversations evidence-based. Leverage AI-guided insights and next-best-action recommendations to work in a way that is tactical, methodical, impactful and scalable across every customer, not only the largest. Keep accurate, disciplined records of engagement and value delivered in the CRM and Customer Success platform.

Essential skills and experience

Relevant experience in a customer-facing role — customer success, customer value, technical support, account management, professional services or similar. Technical aptitude and genuine curiosity: either existing familiarity with security or SaaS technology, or a strong willingness and ability to learn it quickly. A working knowledge of the Mimecast platform and the customer’s wider security and IT environment, or the ability to build it quickly. Comfort working with data — interpreting usage and health metrics and turning them into clear actions and recommendations. Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to explain complex ideas simply and to influence a range of stakeholders. Strong organisation and time management, with the ability to prioritise across a portfolio and re-prioritise as urgency shifts. Working knowledge of MS Office and common business tools.

Preferred qualifications

Exposure to email security, cybersecurity or SaaS concepts — through study, a certification, or a prior role. Familiarity with Salesforce and a Customer Success platform (e.g. Gainsight). Working toward — or a willingness to pursue — a relevant industry certification such as CompTIA Security+.

The attributes that make this role successful

Customer-centric & empathetic - genuinely cares about customers, listens actively, and sees challenges through their eyes.

Curious & a continuous learner - stays interested in the product, the customer’s business and the threat landscape, and keeps learning.

Proactive & takes initiative - anticipates needs and acts before problems escalate, rather than waiting to react.

Resilient, with grit - stays level-headed under pressure, doesn’t take setbacks personally, and keeps finding a way forward.

Adaptable - comfortable with change and ambiguity, and quick to adjust approach, tooling and process, including adopting AI into ways of working.

Outcome-oriented & analytical - connects everyday activity to measurable results and can evidence the value delivered.

Collaborative & influential - builds shared purpose across customers and internal teams, and guides without authority.

A clear, trusted communicator - credible with both practitioners and executives, and willing to offer respectful, honest guidance.

Flexible across time zones - comfortable adjusting their schedule to overlap with North America working hours, valuing the connection this creates with customers and teams across the region.

About Mimecast

Since 2003, Mimecast has stopped bad things from happening to good organisations. We protect more than 40,000 customers across the data, AI and human layers — from advanced threat protection and archiving to our pioneering Human Risk Management platform. If you have deep customer empathy, strong technical curiosity and a passion for helping organisations realise value and stay secure, we want to hear from you. Mimecast is an equal-opportunity employer and values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace.

Salary

The base salary range for this position is 384 000,00-576 000,00ZAR plus benefits. This range represents the minimum and maximum new hire compensation for this role. The position may also be eligible for incentive plans and additional benefits, in accordance with company policy and local regulations. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location with individual compensation also dependent on factors such as qualifications, experience, and skills. Final offers will reflect these considerations and may vary accordingly.

Equality and inclusion

Belonging at Mimecast Cybersecurity is a community effort. That’s why we’re committed to building an inclusive, diverse community that celebrates and welcomes everyone – unless they’re a cybercriminal, of course. We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affidavit Employer, and we’d encourage you to join us whatever your background. We particularly welcome applicants from traditionally underrepresented groups. We consider everyone equally: your race, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability, marital status, nationality, or any other protected characteristic won’t affect your application. Due to certain obligations to our customers, an offer of employment will be subject to your successful completion of applicable background checks, conducted in accordance with local law. It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. We save companies the embarrassment of awkward data slip ups by disrupting cybercriminal activity. We think fast, go big and always demand more. We work hard, deliver – and repeat. We grow with meaningful determination. And put success well within our reach. We empower each other, live by our values, and always deliver on our purpose. We push each other to be better and expect to be pushed back. This is a community of respect. Where everyone is counted.