Customer Success Account Manager Job at Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington. It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft Office suite, and the Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers. 

At Microsoft our mission and values are to help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Customer Success Account Manager

Job ID: 1811162
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time

Responsibilities

• Customer Relationship Management: You will support foundational relationships with key customer stakeholders and technical professionals to enable quality solution delivery and health using partnerships with other account team leaders and with guidance from more experienced colleagues.
• Customer Success Leadership and Customer Strategy and Growth: You will listen to conversations with customers and begin to align objectives with the current Microsoft portfolio of work in the customer account.
• You will align with the account team to link Customer Success Plans (CSPs) with account plan priorities and develop bookable programs of work.
• Customer Success leadership - Delivery and Program Management: You will support the delivery of program planning and customer-facing program reviews, prioritization of engagements, and engagement with key technical stakeholders to address agreed-upon customer outcomes and account priorities to deliver ongoing customer success.
• You will initiate conversations with customers to connect customer objectives and the current Microsoft portfolio of work in the customer account. Adopts the organizational and customer success strategy and ensures you align Microsoft technology and services with the customer goals and objectives.
• You will meet consumption milestones as you track the  adoption and usage of Microsoft products and services, work with customers to identify areas where adoption could be improved and take action to drive usage while you develop and leverage an
• understanding of retention and churn in their customer portfolio to begin identifying potential opportunities where retention may become an issue.

Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Sociology, Psychology, Computer Science or related field AND 4+ years of customer success, solution delivery, practice management, customer-facing consulting, or portfolio management experience
  • OR Master's Degree in Business, Sociology, Psychology, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years of customer success, solution delivery, practice management, customer-facing consulting, or portfolio management experience
  • OR equivalent experience

Additional or preferred qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Sociology, Psychology, Computer Science or related field AND 8+ years of customer success, solution delivery, practice management, customer-facing consulting, or portfolio management experience
  • OR Master's Degree in Business, Sociology, Psychology, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years of customer success, solution delivery, practice management, customer-facing consulting, or portfolio management experience
  • OR equivalent experience
• 3+ years of relevant work experience within the customer industry
• Microsoft or competitor equivalent (e.g., AWS) certification in relevant technologies (e.g., Azure, 365)
• Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Foundation certification or equivalent service management certification
  • Project Management Institute (PMI) or equivalent Project Management certification
  • Prosci or equivalent certification.