Customer Success Manager
S&P GlobalAbout the Role:
Grade Level (for internal use):
10The Team:
It’s a dynamic global team, where the work changes daily. You are responsible for a successful customer journey and touch points that create long term client engagement, driving adoption, retention, user/usage growth and supporting strategic objectives on the account level. This team will develop and execute data driven processes to deliver world class customer experience. Your role may focus on migration, onboarding or global strategic accounts.
The Impact:
Your interactions with the client will reaffirm and strengthen the organization’s relationship with existing accounts and their decision to work with S&P Market Intelligence. Through delivering a positive overall client experience, supporting strategic objectives on the account level, and driving increased client adoption, this role will educate and spread awareness within our client base about S&P Global Market Intelligence’s capabilities. These efforts are a key factor in revenue retention and growth.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and execute proactive, creative, and ongoing contact initiatives in partnership with Marketing, Product, and account team(s)
- Drive continuous service improvement with ultimate goal/focus of product adoption and usage growth
- Evolve the profiles on accounts including all affiliations, geographic presence, and business interests through Salesforce
- Educate and spread awareness within the client-base about our capabilities to increase usage, leveraging the knowledge of product specialists Increase adoption/usage by focusing on distinct users to increase usage and overall increase in number of users
- Provide platform, product functionality and new release training (on-site or virtually) specific to a user job function, liaise with product management team to master new product enhancements and relay client feedback on an ongoing basis
- In partnership with our usage analytics team, monitor product usage and develop account profiles including geographic/departmental presence, relationship history and business interests to support in the develop of renewal proposals and potentially identify upsell opportunities
- Ongoing learning, and deepening that knowledge, of the suite of products and services offered and ongoing enhancements and new offerings and how they relate to customers
- Understand customer business and market trends and suggest ways to help clients address them through education on the product and/or connecting them with the right people internally to address those needs
- Ensure enhancement requests from clients are routed to product stakeholders
- Leverage internal sales tools to optimize client engagement, eg. CRM and Cadence systems
- All employees are required to work from the office a minimum of 2 days per week.
What We’re Looking For:
- Positive, proactive attitude and ability to work well in teams
- Exceptional skills in listening to clients, articulating ideas and complex information in a clear and concise manner
- Proven record of maintaining strong relationships with senior members of client organizations, addressing their needs, and maintaining a high level of client satisfaction
- Goal and action orientated, with ability to organize, multi-task and prioritize in a fast-paced environment
- Experience in a consultative sales or a client facing role (inside sales, prospecting, sales support, customer support) and in dealing with challenging situations
Basic Qualifications:
- Strong MS office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) skills are required
- Working experience in financial services industry and/or in a sales/account management role preferred
- Any knowledge of CRM systems (such as Salesforce.com, SalesLoft) or research platforms would be advantageous
- We require all candidates who reach the final stage of our interview process to attend at least one in-person interview, which is ordinarily at your nearest S&P Global office. This must be completed before we can proceed to an offer.
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