Manager, Customer Success

4 weken geleden


Amsterdam, Nederland Palo Alto Networks Voltijd
Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.

Job Description

Your Career

This role is focused on ensuring our customers’ success, driving growth/adoption of our technology as well as boosting renewals and gleaning strategic insights that improve our product value. This is an exciting opportunity to unequivocally influence our customers and Palo Alto Networks success. Reporting to the EMEA SASE Customer Success Sr Manager, in this role you will lead an internationally dispersed team of Customer Success Managers, responsible for managing strategic and enterprise accounts.

This is a challenging role that requires exceptional customer relationships, team building, deep management and demonstrated coaching skills, a motivational style, and analytical skills. We are looking for someone who is truly passionate about customer advocacy and team development and has a proven track record to talk about Additionally, you will have a focus on quality management; foster an environment of innovation and high accountability, and demonstrate the ability to drive continuous operational improvement as a way of working and managing. Are you a person, by nature, that is a risk-taker, with a high level of ambition, and who thrives in an environment of change?

Your Impact

  • Manage your team to develop delivery plans that maximize the customer experience and achieve higher product adoption, customer satisfaction, and overall health scores
  • Leading a team of about 10 Customer Success Managers - assisting the team with key escalations and, where required, the production of best practice blueprints for the portfolio of customers
  • Measure effectiveness of Customer Success Managers, ensuring the team delivers on Key Operational metrics, including Customer Health - Green/Yellow/Red, Adoption (Consumption & Usage), Reference-ability, Renewal Likelihood, Upsell / Cross-Sell Potential, and % Retention / Renewal
  • Create cadence for review within the team to drive premier programmatic Customer Success practice
  • Attracting, hiring and retaining a group of Customer Success Managers, attract high potential individual contributors into the team, ensure rapid onboarding process for new team members, foster collaboration within internal teams and across the customer lifecycle
  • Working closely with Sales reps and Renewals managers to identify new opportunities and upsell potential
  • Increase the lifetime value of the Customer through greater advocacy and reference-ability; serving as a customer advocate in the evolution of our products and platform functionality integral to the customer's success
  • Engage broadly across the Customer organization from management through to C-Level/Influencer as required
  • Ensure customer feedback is clearly captured and conveyed internally to enable ongoing improvement of products and services
  • Actively assess the interactions with our top customers (product performance, depth, and breadth of usage, Support experience)

Qualifications

Your Experience

  • Relevant Master degree or equivalent experience or equivalent military experience - preference for computer science or related background
  • 10+ years experience working in pre-sales, account management, customer success, consulting or similar roles related to driving customer success and adoption
  • 3+ years of recent experience in people management role, or equivalent experience
  • An enthusiastic and creative leader with the ability to inspire others
  • Demonstrated trajectory of success with people-management, coaching, and up-leveling and amplifying team’s competencies
  • Ability to manage influence through persuasion, negotiation, and consensus building
  • Deep business operations expertise - has solid experience with SFDC, Gainsight, and adept with creating reports and dashboards is highly preferred
  • Ideally combined background of post-sales, sales, consulting services experience
  • Strong empathy for customers AND passion for revenue and growth
  • Deep understanding of value drivers in recurring revenue business models
  • Analytical and process driven mindset
  • Demonstrated desire for continuous learning and improvement
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Strong leadership skills with validated ability to influence inside and outside of the organization at the highest levels to garner support
  • Demonstrated success at skillful negotiation and strategy implementation
  • Able to balance providing extraordinary service with the need to improve financial performance, and increase revenue and profits
  • Experience with SaaS technologies and go-to-market
  • Experience with Cybersecurity solutions

Additional Information

The Team

Our Customer Success team is critical to our success and mission. As part of this team, you enable customer success by providing support to customers after they have purchased our products. Our dedication to our customers doesn’t stop once they sign – it evolves. As threats and technology change, we stay in step to accomplish our mission.

The Customer Success mission is to “guide the customer” with their product journey to help increase license and feature adoption to gain maximum value from their investment.

Customer Success extends a client’s capacity to reach maximum operational efficiency. We guide customers in adopting best practices to take advantage of their investment, with a pointed focus on providing the best customer support in the industry.

Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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