Product Customer Success Manager

The EEM Product Customer Success manager is technical expert and source of knowledge for our Employee Engagement Product with a high degree of understanding within Workforce Management arena.  The primary goal is to work closely with our Employee Engagement (EEM) customer base, create loyal promoters, retain & increase revenue by helping pursue expansion and adoption opportunities, ensure product subscription renewal, and create valuable executive references from this customer base in to help drive additional business from new customers.     Additionally, this person should have the ability to solve for designs that combine multiple technical capabilities.  With deep and broad experience in multiple hardware and software environments, the role is comfortable navigating across complex systems.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Develop and present customized presentations to assigned clients that both quantify and qualify product/service usage, realized benefits through usage report, achievements, opportunities, and next steps to improve the customer’s value realization and ROI.
• Professionally and independently conduct complex discovery conversations, negotiations and needs analysis for technical topics, and prepare plans for establishing product expansion, ensuring subscription renewal, and promoting product adoption.
• Engage in proactive communication with each assigned customer on at least a monthly basis as their named TCSM, ensuring that they achieve their business objectives based on data analysis, achieve success with the EEM solution, and are using the solution in the most successful way possible.
• Work in tandem with NICE Account Executives and fellow Solutions Engineers to develop and deliver compelling presentations, product demonstrations, and Business Reviews
• Assist in the negotiation and facilitation of contract renewals and maintain high revenue retention rates.
• Lead proof-of-concept and custom demonstration activities
• Identify all technical challenges of the customer to assure a complete design and solution customer satisfaction through all stages of the sales process, and act as a strong customer advocate, while maintaining business priorities
• Provide training and produce associated material for customers and other members of the sales teams to educate, support and advance NICE sales.
• Engage and communicate effectively with senior leaders both internally and externally.
• Establish area of expertise, and act as source of knowledge between the organization, customer, and the product management, and to identify & support internal teams to remove friction in the customer experience.
• Maintain a working knowledge of competitive product lines, especially as it relates to technical strengths and weaknesses of the competitor's products and what strategy should develop to counter.
• Convey specific customer requirements to Product Management teams as well as provide product feedback and work closely with product management to distill marketplace requirements into product enhancements.

Required skills and relevant experience include:

• 2+ years of experience in the enterprise software marketplace with technical customer service, call/contact center and/or service delivery.
• Bachelor’s degree in information technology or business Administration or related field or equivalent work experience required - master’s degree or MBA an advantage.
• Manage and mitigate risk – Proactively identify risks of customer dissatisfactions and contract reduction or contract termination and developing and executing mitigation strategies as required.
• Development/computer skills: HTML, SQL, Sys admin, networking, and security.
• Desired experience with MS PowerBI for creating and maintaining utilization reports.
• Desired experience with Workforce Manager and Contact Center solutions.
• Desired experience with Gainsight for Customer Account Tracking.
• Demonstrated ability to manage time and multiple commitments/projects, independently apply tasks prioritization, meet tight deadlines, craft daily status reports.
• Ability to learn how analyze complex performance metrics for system and provide strategy and plan for increasing Return on Investment.
• Exceptional communication and presentations skills.
• Collaborative team-oriented approach to selling with the ability to develop relationships with the ‘C’ or VP level business users to sell based on business value and influencing on technical issues.
• Excellent project management skills with the ability to manage multiple, complex sales opportunities simultaneously and when needed propose and facilitate project recovery plans.
• Inherent self-sufficiency, flexibility, and confidence with a preference for autonomy to take ownership and manage activities & processes to achieve revenue results.

Personal Attributes:

• Persuasive, confident with excellent communication skills
• Strong communication, written, and formal presentation/public speaking ability.
• Passionate and empathetic towards the customer experience
• Self-motivated, pro-active, results-oriented professional with an ability to work with minimal direction.
• Diligent/detail oriented, very organized
• Self-motivated with strong communication skills and proven experience working with international and geographically dispersed teams.
• Good inter-personal skills to work well with clients and other team members.
• Be flexible and adaptable to changes and processes.
• Be willing to learn the Product and able to help the client setup and configure the program using Product self-service features. Act as a SME (Subject Matter Expert) on the client account.
• Must be able to travel up to approximately 10% domestically and internationally.

Additional Information:
Location: Richardson, TX

Travel: Able to travel if needed (eventually)