Customer Success Manager Job at Cisco Careers, North Carolina

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  • Cisco Careers
  • North Carolina

Job Description

The application window is expected to close on: 12/23/24. However, the job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

The required locations for this role are: RTP, North Carolina, US - Charlotte, NC, US - Greensboro, NC, US.

Meet the Team

You will work closely with a diverse range of Customer Experience (CX) resources, including Customer Success Specialists (CSS), Renewals teams, and Partners. Your role involves partnering with Sales and Renewals teams to drive Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) growth. This collaborative environment will enable you to leverage the expertise and support of various team members to achieve shared goals and deliver exceptional value to our customers.

Your Impact

As a Customer Success Manager, you play a crucial role in helping our customers successfully adopt and use Cisco technologies, driving value realization and growth. You will be the primary point of contact for customers, guiding them through software adoption and enabling them to accomplish their business and technical goals.

You are a technical professional whose sweet spot is in customer relationships and success. You are proactive and strategic, with a passion for driving software utilization to accelerate business outcomes. You excel at creating and implementing Technical Adoption Plans that lead software outcomes and optimize Return on Investment. Your ability to connect Cisco's offerings to success measures and remove adoption barriers is unmatched. You focus on driving ARR growth and work collaboratively with Renewals and Sales teams. You have a keen eye for identifying new opportunities and are dedicated to ensuring customer success and satisfaction.

• Acting as a technology advocate, providing feedback to Cisco’s product teams for development and enhancements, and staying current with the latest Cisco technologies, competitive landscape, and industry trends.

• Offering expert guidance to customers, ensuring they achieve their business and technical goals with Cisco technologies.

• Driving software utilization and value realization, leading to customer renewals and business growth.

• Proactively handling renewal risks, demonstrating insights to increase customer retention, and facilitating workshops to review adoption progress and ensure successful onboarding.

• Building strong relationships with customer partners to understand their challenges and objectives, and collaborating with Sales, Customer Success, Renewals, and Business Entities to identify use cases that drive value and business outcomes.

• Advocating for the customer within Cisco, ensuring their needs are met and that they receive a high-quality customer experience.

• Build and implement Technical Adoption Plans in partnership with Customer Success Specialists (CSS) that align with customer goals to maximize their technology investments and promote the full use of our technologies.

• Staying up-to-date with the latest Cisco technologies, competitive landscape, and industry trends to provide expert mentorship to customers

Minimum Qualifications

  • 8 + years working in a customer facing role in an IT company or in an Enterprise IT organization

  • Understanding of fundamental networking concepts - skills and knowledge to set up, manage, fix, and troubleshoot small to medium-level networks.

  • Experience developing software adoption plans across technology portfolio

  • Experience driving software adoption with customer executives and technical leaders

  • Experience leading cross-functional teams in a matrix organization

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Knowledge of Data Center and/or Security technologies

  • CCNA or or CompTIA Network+ certification (or equivalent work experience

  • Financial, Renewal, and/or adoption forecasting experience

  • Experience as a technology advocate

  • Proven ability to offer expert guidance to customers, helping them achieve business and technical goals

  • Experience driving software utilization and value realization (Customer renewals)

  • Proficiency in proactively managing renewal risks, demonstrating insights to increase customer retention

  • Strong relationship-building skills

  • Experience collaborating with teams to drive value and business outcomes.

  • Advocacy skills

  • Experience building and implementing Technical Adoption Plans

#WeAreCisco

#WeAreCisco where every individual brings their unique skills and perspectives together to pursue our purpose of powering an inclusive future for all.

Our passion is connection—we celebrate our employees’ diverse set of backgrounds and focus on unlocking potential. Cisconians often experience one company, many careers where learning and development are encouraged and supported at every stage. Our technology, tools, and culture pioneered hybrid work trends, allowing all to not only give their best, but be their best.

We understand our outstanding opportunity to bring communities together and at the heart of that is our people. One-third of Cisconians collaborate in our 30 employee resource organizations, called Inclusive Communities, to connect, foster belonging, learn to be informed allies, and make a difference. Dedicated paid time off to volunteer—80 hours each year—allows us to give back to causes we are passionate about, and nearly 86% do!

Our purpose, driven by our people, is what makes us the worldwide leader in technology that powers the internet. Helping our customers reimagine their applications, secure their enterprise, transform their infrastructure, and meet their sustainability goals is what we do best. We ensure that every step we take is a step towards a more inclusive future for all. Take your next step and be you, with us!

Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.

Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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