Customer Success Consultant
PURPOSE OF ROLE:
- Build and maintain strong customer relationships that drive adoption, retention, and long-term success.
- Ensure customers achieve their desired business outcomes through the company’s software solutions and services.
- Act as a trusted advisor to customers, promoting satisfaction, growth, and advocacy.
- Serve as the customer’s voice within the organization, ensuring feedback informs solutions and service improvements.
OBJECTIVES OF ROLE:
- Retention – Strengthen customer loyalty by proactively managing relationships and resolving issues before they escalate.
- Satisfaction – Drive high customer satisfaction through regular check-ins, feedback loops, and timely support.
- Adoption – Ensure customers gain maximum value from solutions by promoting effective use of features and services.
- Expansion – Identify and support opportunities for customers to expand usage of the company’s solutions and services.
- Advocacy – Turn satisfied customers into advocates by encouraging case studies, testimonials, and referrals.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Customer Onboarding & Adoption
- Lead onboarding and training for new customers.
- Ensure smooth implementation and early realization of value.
- Promote adoption of key features aligned with customer goals.
Relationship Management
- Act as the primary point of contact for assigned accounts.
- Build strong, long-term relationships with decision-makers and end users.
- Conduct regular business reviews to measure progress and outcomes.
- Manage large-scale onboarding programs for EDI trading partners, including:
- Close collaboration with delivery teams to ensure on-time project completion.
- Weekly and monthly internal and external stakeholder meetings.
- Preparing and sharing progress reports with internal and external stakeholders.
- Escalating risks or issues internally to safeguard delivery timelines.
Understanding Customer Needs
- Analyze customer requirements and recommend suitable solutions in consultation with Delivery and Product teams.
- Perform high-level gap analysis between customer requirements and available solutions, collaborating with Product and Delivery teams to enhance offerings where possible.
Issue & Risk Management
- Monitor customer health, identifying risks such as low adoption or dissatisfaction.
- Coordinate with support, delivery, and product teams to resolve escalations quickly.
Commercial Support
- Prepare quotations for EDI integration and production change requests for existing customers.
- Assist revenue teams in pre-sales activities, including solution demonstrations, proposals, RFP/RFI responses, and customer presentations.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Strong business acumen and consultative approach.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to understand customer business and business structure
- Strong conflict resolution and problem-solving skills.
- Proficiency with CRM tools.
- Solid knowledge of the software industry, particularly EDI/integration and related business processes (e.g., Accounts Payable/Receivable).
- Ability to explain technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Fluency in English, spoken and written.
- Experience working in a global, virtual team environment with multiple projects.
- Project management experience, including use of tools for planning and presentations.