Customer Success Manager

Skillsoft is seeking an experienced Customer Success Manager who has a passion for digital learning to support organizations with their skills transformation and measure its effectiveness. They manage a portfolio of more complex customers across all market segments and are responsible for customer retention and satisfaction. 

As a Customer Success Manager, you will have the opportunity to work closely with the customer’s learning leader(s) after the purchase of Skillsoft solutions to ensure the customer’s desired outcomes are met through onboarding, adoption, expansion, and renewal. The Customer Success Manager plans and drives ongoing account strategy working with the customer to establish critical program goals, or other key performance indicators, and aids the customer in achieving their goals and desired outcomes. The Customer Success Manager teams with Skillsoft Account Executives and other internal partners to ensure high renewal rates. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Establish a trusted/strategic advisor relationship with each assigned customer and drive continued engagement and demonstrate value of our products and services 

• Conduct business review meetings with customers to measure progress, assess key trends and ensure value realization 

• Ensure customer success by consulting during the process of defining, implementing, launching, promoting, and continually evaluating the digital learning program 

• Provide guidance or advise customers on Skillsoft content, platform solutions, and service offerings using Skillsoft’s Learning Strategy Framework and other frameworks 

• Drive retention and growth among customers by understanding their business needs and helping them succeed by achieving targeted activity and renewal goals on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis 

• Take proactive steps to address potential issues before they become larger setbacks to success and manage resolution and escalation of on-going support issues to relevant stakeholders (internal & external) 

• Build relationships by being a customer advocate. Develop and enhance customer learning initiatives and facilitate the resolution of customer problems and concerns 

• Guide customers to develop and enhance their digital learning program by providing relevant tools and other resources 

• Maintain a cadence of communicating with customers about their adoption and usage trends, overall satisfaction, and mining opportunities for deeper engagement 

• Stay up to date on new trends and regulations and may make recommendations to Skillsoft development on customer content needs. 

• Analyze white space and identify up-sell and cross-sell opportunities 

• Collaborate with Account Team to ensure expansion and renewal 

• Respond to activities and create follow up tasks in a timely manner 

Skills & Qualification Requirements 

• 5+ years Customer Success experience or equivalent (e.g., sales, professional services) with a Bachelor's Degree; or equivalent experience 

• Experience using Salesforce CRM and Customer Success tools such as Gainsight, etc. 

• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills and proficient in Word and Outlook with excellent facilitation and presentation skills for meetings and groups, both virtual and live, demonstrating the ability to guide individuals and groups, listen and question effectively                                                   

• Solid knowledge of the digital learning industry with the ability to articulate its features and benefits to all levels of the business enterprise, including understanding of the customer's business drivers 

• Ability to successfully support an account territory with a portfolio of more complex customers 

• Understanding of the regulatory environment and the relevance to the organization's training needs and risk reduction goals while continually expands knowledge of content areas as they are incorporated into the Skillsoft library 

• Effective project management and organizational skills, specifically managing a high-volume customer base 

• Critical thinking, problem solving and decision-making that balance data analysis with responsiveness for 

• Excellent teamwork skills and the ability to act as a strategic partner to the customer and sale team. 

• Ability to easily adapt to change as it relates to customer strategy, internal/external relationships, and organizational direction 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Training or consulting experience with account management responsibility 

• Experience in analyzing data, visualizing success, and demonstrating value