Customer Success Manager

Customer Success Manager

  

This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2-3 days per week from an HPE office.

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know diverse backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description:

   

Job Family Definition:

The Customer Success Architect (CSA) plays a critical role in the customer's digital transformation journey. The CSA is a key member of HPE's account team and serves as a direct point of contact, understanding client business objectives, project priorities, and desired outcomes. With this insight, they align the service adoption journey to best suit the client's needs and optimize their experience with HPE.

A primary function of the CSA is to help clients make the most of HPE's solutions, ensuring they achieve the desired results and realize the maximum return on their investment. Their involvement continues throughout the client's engagement with HPE, from onboarding through to solution adoption. This involves ensuring consistent and meaningful engagement, optimizing usage, and aiming for revenue growth, account expansion, and sustained customer loyalty.

CSAs are directly responsible for driving usage growth and the upsell sales motion within their designated accounts. Partnering closely with Sales Specialists, they harness their specialized knowledge to identify and nurture new sales pipeline within their accounts. This responsibility comes with an ownership of a quota, emphasizing the significance of maximizing the customer adoption.

The CSA continuously promotes the value of HPE's as-a-service offerings to meet client business objectives. CSA's post-sales activities are focused on maintaining and deepening relationships, accelerating consumption and utilization of existing services, identifying opportunities to introduce additional HPE solutions, and consistently delivering tangible business value with a high standard of customer service. The CSA is dedicated to client success, ensuring they benefit from our solutions while also providing feedback and insights to our internal teams for continuous improvement.

The CSA is customer facing and may regularly be present onsite on customer premise.

Management Level Definition:

Applies developed subject matter knowledge to solve common and complex business issues and recommends appropriate alternatives. Works on problems of diverse complexity and scope. May act as a team or project leader providing direction to team activities and facilitates information validation and team decision making process. Exercises independent judgment to identify and select a solution. Ability to handle most unique situations. May seek advice in order to make decisions on complex business issues.

Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of a portfolio of customer accounts.
• Cultivate strong relationships within the customer's organization, including engagement with key stakeholders.
• Successfully onboard customers and help them define and achieve their adoption success criteria.
• Acts as primary advocate for the customer, ensuring their needs, objectives, and desired outcomes are understood and prioritized.
• Develop and maintain a Customer Success Plan for assigned accounts; outlining customer goals, desired outcomes, and timelines to ensure customers receive consistent experience throughout the customer’s entire journey.
• Serve as a point of contact for customer issues, coordinating with various internal teams, including technical support, product management, and engineering, to ensure swift and effective resolution.
• Capture HPE’s capabilities through offerings and identify gaps related to customer use cases through a closed loop process at each step of the engagement life cycle.
• Drives upsell sales motion in the assigned account base, identifying and closing new expansion opportunities.
• Create a pipeline in collaboration with Sales Specialists.

Education and Experience Required:

• University or bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• CCSM (Certified Customer Service Manager) – Level 3 or higher certification preferred.
• HPE GreenLake ATP certified p