Customer Success Account Manager (CSAM) at Microsoft Corporation

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At Microsoft our mission and values are to help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Customer Success Account Manager (CSAM)

Job number: 1206929
Location: Nigeria
Travel: 0-25 %
Profession: Services
Role type: Individual Contributor
Employment type Full-Time

Summary

• We are looking for a highly motivated and passionate Customer Success Account Manager (CSAM) to drive program management for Commercial accounts that may have Cloud, on-premise, and hybrid workload engagements running concurrently.
• The CSAM owns consumption and delivery execution of operative solutions and operational health as the single point of orchestration for technical delivery teams and cross-cloud project oversight.

Responsibilities

• As a Customer Success Account Manager, you are the primary customer-facing role responsible for customer success by managing program deliveries and strong customer relationships.
• Our priority is the customers' successful adoption and productive use of Microsoft cloud technologies.
• You are front and center with our customers supporting their digital journey and empowering them to achieve more!

Responsibilities
Key Accountabilities include:

• Fulfill Support contract obligations by driving quality planning and delivery of Support services to realize customer business outcomes and overall experience with Microsoft solutions.
• Partner with your customer and Account Team to prioritize and plan customer engagements and programs across Cloud and on-premises workloads.
• Define outcomes to improve the prioritized workloads' health, performance, and business capabilities to drive customer value realization.
• Orchestration, customer sponsor management, and stakeholder communication of prioritized engagements and programs.
• Track, escalate and plan to remediate technical blockers and provide engineering feedback to further our product and solutions as appropriate.
• We are always learning. Insatiably curious. We lean into uncertainty, take risks, and learn quickly from our mistakes. We build on each other's ideas because we are better together.
• We admire what humans dare to achieve and motivate each other every day to empower others to achieve more through technology and innovation. Together we make a difference.

Qualifications
Education:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience.

Experience:

• 2-3 years of success in engagement management and program management is essential. Prior work experience in a Program Manager position focused on Cloud and software/services solutions preferred.
• Leadership: This role requires effective communication and collaboration skills and displays executive presence and confidence in varying levels of customer situations. The CSAM must show leadership in collaborating with multiple teams and critical stakeholders who may deliver complex customer success solutions.
• Program Management: The ability to manage multiple tasks, prioritize activities, and determine outcomes is essential. Also, the capability to drive both customer and Microsoft activity is critical to achieving results.
• Collaboration and Communication: A proven history of driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts, and ensuring follow-through with verbal and written communication. Good presentation skills with various levels of management (Senior Executives and IT management).
• Technical: Knowledge of/Experience with Cloud and hybrid infrastructures, and migrations preferred. Knowledge of market trends and competitive insights preferred. Understanding of partner ecosystems and the ability to utilize partner solutions to solve customer needs.
• Relationship Building: A proven history of building relationships with senior customer executives in Commercial accounts. Experience in managing various stakeholder relationships to get a consensus on solutions/engagements is essential.

Language Qualification:

• English, French and Arabic Language: fluent in reading, writing and speaking.

Technologies:

• Awareness of all Microsoft solutions with a focus on Cloud, mobile, web application development, cloud-native application architecture is desirable, but a passion for technology is a requirement.

Travel required:

• 10-30%.

Benefits and Perks
Benefits / perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

• Industry leading healthcare
• Savings and investments
• Opportunities to network and connect
• Discounts on products and services
• Generous time away.
• Giving programs
• Educational resources
• Maternity and paternity leave

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply

Note

• Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.
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