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World Wide Technology

Associate Customer Success Manager

World Wide Technology, New York, New York, United States

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Why WWT?

At World Wide Technology, we work together to make a new world happen. Our important work benefits our clients and partners as much as it does our people and communities across the globe. WWT is dedicated to achieving its mission of creating a profitable growth company that is also a Great Place to Work for All. We achieve this through our world-class culture, generous benefits and by delivering cutting-edge technology solutions for our clients.

Founded in 1990, WWT is a global technology solutions provider leading the AI and Digital Revolution. WWT combines the power of strategy, execution and partnership to accelerate digital transformational outcomes for organizations around the globe. Through its Advanced Technology Center, a collaborative ecosystem of the world's most advanced hardware and software solutions, WWT helps clients and partners conceptualize, test and validate innovative technology solutions for the best business outcomes and then deploys them at scale through its global warehousing, distribution and integration capabilities.

With over 12,000 employees across WWT and Softchoice and more than 60 locations around the world, WWT's culture, built on a set of core values and established leadership philosophies, has been recognized 14 years in a row by Fortune and Great Place to Work® for its unique blend of determination, innovation and creating a great place to work for all.

Want to work with highly motivated individuals on high-performance teams? Join WWT today!

Why should you join the Customer Experience team?

WWT’s Customer Experience (CX) team is focused on our customers first, partnering with them to ensure we understand their goals, then applying the efforts necessary to achieve those goals. It is a rewarding way to ensure that our relationships continue foster quality business outcomes and our customers view us as their strategic advisors.

CX is also a thriving area of growth for many companies who are making the shift from transactional sales models to supporting recurring revenue. Customer Experience has become a key driver to ensuring that any customer who commits to a contract with a vendor sees success and continues to renew that business. This industry trend towards recurring revenue models makes WWT Customer Experience an area of great opportunity for potential candidates.

What will you be doing?

World Wide Technology (WWT) is currently looking for an Associate SLED Customer Success Manager (CSM) who will manage the software lifecycle activities of customers who have signed long term recurring revenue agreements with WWT. This position will ensure all client roadmap items are addressed in a timely manner, setting up a frictionless renewal of the contract or continual use of their recurring revenue model. The goal of this position is to ensure all entitled software and available features are fully consumed enabling our customers to achieve their desired business outcomes.

This job requires that the Associate CSM look at our client’s goals as their own and their singular focus to be on ensuring that clients are successful in driving their business initiatives. The ideal candidate for this role will need to learn the entire business, including Sales, Operations, Marketing, and Finance, partnering with these groups to drive towards our customers’ vision. Candidates should display tenacity and an eagerness to learn and help develop the quickly-growing CX team. The day-to-day tasks of the Customer Success Manager will vary on a daily basis but creating campaigns and executing those campaigns will be a daily goal. This position requires extreme flexibility and agility, with the comfort and ability to create and develop new processes.

We are looking for the type of candidate that has the creativity to overcome challenges, a passion for success, the tenacity to accomplish a goal and the desire to succeed.

To be successful in this role you should:

Be able to create and present content to customer contacts & stakeholders

Be highly organized with the ability to easily toggle between tasks and areas of focus

Be a self-starter, comfortable working within an ambiguous and quickly changing environment

Be able to solve problems quickly and take a “common sense” approach to challenges

Be capable to work independently and evaluate where and how your day-to-day efforts should focus

Be eager to learn and approach the position and responsibilities with ongoing agility

Be a problem-solver with an anticipatory mindset that is able to quickly identify needs and desired outcomes

Be tenacious and have a “by any means necessary” attitude

Be willing to self-educate to appropriately support customers within their purchased technology(ies)

Be comfortable learning from and shadowing senior team members with minimal or limited guidance

Be able to translate learning opportunities and coaching into customer-facing application

Responsibilities include:

Serve as primary contact for the Customer Experience team, Field Sales, OEM relationships and all internal teams for EA or Subscription activities.

Prepare and present detailed briefing materials & pointed analytics

Manage all aspects of client requests to drive consumption with full engagement with WWT delivery departments

Support appointed customers within their predefined EA License Management process, including license requests, provisioning, user training and move, add, change, delete (MACD) management

Aid team members (Customer Experience Executives and/or Customer Success Managers) in crafting customer-facing collateral, metrics and data, consumption & utilization reporting, etc.

Maintain &/or develop customer-facing digital Community site(s) on WWT’s Platform

Document all activity in a Customer Success Roadmap through Gainsight (internal Customer Relationship Management tool). Gainsight guidance & training provided by senior team member(s), as well as product owner

Engage with our OEM partners to achieve expertise around assigned OEM’s products, people, and processes

Assist in the development and delivery of customer health checks, quarterly success reviews, and workshops

Support in the presentation and/or creation of Business Reviews (at cadence appropriate to each stakeholder team) to offer customer insights into their current business outcomes and ROI

Develop, communicate and track KPIs

Identify new areas of opportunity beyond current organizational thinking

Analyze statistics and compile accurate reporting

Create customer experience roadmaps, informed by the needs of the customer. Roadmaps will include short- & long-term plans to deliver on customer strategies

Attend work on a regular and reliable basis and may be called upon to work outside regular business hours

Future growth opportunity: Develop skill set to present and delivery directly to C-suite and/or customer-facing executives

Qualifications:

Experience (1-2 years) in the fields of Customer Success, Sales, BD, Project Management, Operations, IT, or Business Analysis

Direct experience supporting and engaging customers that have purchased large-scale, recurring technology agreements is preferred

Functional understanding of Cisco Enterprise Agreements, products and solutions is required

Working knowledge of Cisco Licensing & associated user portals is strongly preferred

Experience supporting and engaging with customers within the Public Sector space is strongly preferred

Ability to solve problems quickly and take a “common sense” approach to challenges

Capability to perform comfortably within an ambiguous and quickly changing environment

Comfort in quickly learning from and shadowing Senior team members with minimal guidance and direction

Ability to self-educate and self-regulate time, focus and efforts to appropriately onboard yourself into the role/team, leveraging senior team members as mentor-type partners

Experience dealing with all levels of corporate structure

Strong internal motivation and passion for learning

Strong project or process development skills

Ability to prioritize and organize effectively and manage multiple projects and assignments

Ability to develop strong working relationships with peers and project members

Ability to analyze and interpret data

Critical thinker with a common-sense skillset

Education:

Undergraduate Degree in a related field or equivalent work experience is required

10% Nationwide Travel is possible

Certain states and localities require employers to post a reasonable estimate of salary range. A reasonable estimate of the current base pay range for this position is $45,000.00 to $57,000.00 annually. Actual salary will be based on a variety of factors, including shift, location, experience, skill set, performance, licensure and certification, and business needs. The range for this position in other geographic locations may differ. Certain positions may also be eligible for variable incentive compensation, such as bonuses or commissions, that is not included in the base pay.

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The well-being of WWT employees is essential. So, when it comes to our benefits package, WWT has one of the best. We offer the following benefits to all full-time employees:

Health and Wellbeing: Health, Dental, and Vision Care, Onsite Health Centers, Employee Assistance Program, Wellness program

Financial Benefits: Competitive pay, Profit Sharing, 401k Plan with Company Matching, Life and Disability Insurance, Tuition Reimbursement

Paid Time Off: PTO & Holidays, Parental Leave, Sick Leave, Military Leave, Bereavement

Additional Perks: Nursing Mothers Benefits, Voluntary Legal, Pet Insurance, Employee Discount Program

We strive to create an environment where all employees are empowered to succeed based on their skills, performance, and dedication. Our goal is to cultivate a culture of belonging that encourages innovation, collaboration, and respect for all team members, ensuring that WWT remains a great place to work for All!

If you have any questions or concerns about this posting, please email taposting@wwt.com.

WWT will consider for employment, without regard to disability, a disabled applicant who satisfies the requisite skill, experience, education, and other job-related requirements of the job and is capable of performing the essential requirements of the job with or without reasonable accommodation. World Wide Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or other characteristics protected by law. We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you have a disability and you believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to submit an online application, please call 1-800-432-7008 and ask for Human Resources.