We are looking for a Senior Customer Success Manager (CSM) Business Applications to drive successful adoption and expansion of Business Applications workloads within her/his accounts. The CSM role will collaboratively drive change management and adoption activities with key Business Decision Makers, help reduce implementation risk, drive usage of existing workloads, and identify opportunities in her/his accounts. The CSM is also a key part of our customer facing sales teams and will be called on frequently to leverage their deep knowledge of CRM or ERP to support sales growth. 

Responsibilities

The Customer Success Manager Business Applications role will enable our customers to realize business value from their investment and make our customers passionate advocates of Microsoft. 

• Create value for customers by ensuring they clearly define business outcomes and then build a "success plan" with the appropriately identified objectives, stakeholders, milestones, risks and metrics needed to achieve them 
• Be accountable to drive high usage of D365 within customers by driving the creation and execution of a thorough and action-oriented adoption Plan 
• Leverage deep functional expertise to increase the customer’s usage of existing workloads 
• Proactively identify new workloads and expansion opportunities in each account to drive value both for the customer and for Microsoft 
• Build, maintain and leverage strong relationships with Business Decision Makers (BDMs) and IT Decision Makers (ITDMs) within each customer to influence solution adoption, create strong support for new opportunities and to secure their willingness to advocate on Dynamics’ and Microsoft’s behalf 
• Build/maintain rapid channel of communication to customer in case of online service-related issues and events 
• Orchestrate and gain strong buy-in with multiple external (e.g. customer’s Partner) and internal Microsoft sales and services teams and be highly connected to Microsoft SMEs throughout the customer’s Dynamics lifecycle 

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Engineering, Technology, or related field AND 4+ years related work experience (e.g., consulting, pre-sales/post-sales, business analysis, technical sales, customer change management)
  • OR Master's Degree in Business, Engineering, Technology, or related field AND 3+ years related work experience (e.g., consulting, pre-sales/post-sales, business analysis, technical sales, customer change management)
  • OR equivalent experience.

 Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Engineering, Technology, or related field AND 6+ years related work experience (e.g., consulting, pre-sales/post-sales, business analysis, technical sales, customer change management)
  • OR Master's Degree in Business, Engineering, Technology, or related field AND 4+ years related work experience (e.g., consulting, pre-sales/post-sales, business analysis, technical sales, customer change management)
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years experience in change management and/or technology adoption.
• Change Management Certification (e.g., Prosci).
• 5+ years of experience in functional CRM or ERP consulting with top consulting firms or business applications vendors, and/or in a pre-sales CRM or ERP solution engineering capacity for a top business applications vendor. Experience in both consulting and pre-sales is ideal 
• Proven ability to map the customer’s business process to product capability 
• Experience in driving CRM or ERP transformation in enterprises through effective change management and adoption highly preferred 
• Experience in one of the following industries highly preferred – Professional Services or Technology, Media, Entertainment, Telecom 
• Deep understanding of SaaS customer engagement 
• Top-notch executive engagement skills with an ability to establish strong relationships with business decision makers 
• Strong interpersonal skills that establish Trusted Advisor relationships with clients 
• Strong organizational/time management skills and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously 
• Cultural awareness and appreciation for diversity 

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.