Sr. Customer Success Manager

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Toronto, ON, CAN
Hybrid
Senior level
Information Technology • Software • Consulting
The Role
The Senior Customer Success Manager manages complex customer programs from implementation through renewal, serving as a trusted advisor and overseeing account health, adoption, compliance objectives, and business value. Responsibilities include executive business reviews, strategic planning, customer escalations, renewal support, CRM maintenance, platform permission coordination, regulatory consultation, and process improvement. The role also mentors customer success colleagues and collaborates with Sales, Product Management, Professional Services, and Program Support teams.
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Company Description

Assent empowers manufacturers and distributors with the intelligence to build sustainable products, meet global compliance requirements and drive better business outcomes.

At the center of our offering is the Assent Network, the industry’s most complete Product Intelligence Network, bringing together trusted parts and supplier intelligence, advanced AI and deep regulatory expertise to help organizations identify risk, make informed decisions and stay ahead of evolving requirements.

Trusted by more than 1,000 customers worldwide, Assent helps organizations stay ahead of evolving regulations across areas including responsible sourcing, human rights due diligence, PFAS reporting, Digital Product Passports, and other emerging requirements. Our platform empowers manufacturers to navigate change with confidence while building stronger supplier relationships and driving measurable business value.

With more than 1000 team members across India, North America, Malaysia, the European Union, and Kenya, Assent brings together global expertise, diverse perspectives, and a shared commitment to innovation. Our hybrid work model enables teams to collaborate across regions while staying connected to the communities where they live and work. As a certified B Corporation, we meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability, reflecting our commitment to creating lasting value for our customers, our people, and the planet.

People First. Technology Forward.

Our commitment to People, Culture & Community (PCC) is rooted in building a diverse, inclusive, and high-performing team. We recruit and retain team members with a range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, while fostering a culture of belonging where all Assentees are respected, supported, and empowered to contribute.

As we continue to embed AI into how we work, we do so thoughtfully, enhancing human potential, supporting better decision-making, and prioritizing appropriate oversight, privacy, and fairness.

At Assent, we value your privacy and are committed to maintaining transparency in how we handle your personal information. As part of our talent acquisition and management processes, we may use AI technologies to support activities such as resume screening, candidate communication, and talent analytics.

Job Description

The Senior Customer Success Manager will play an integral role in delivering our services to customers on their purchased programs, working with our customers to define and execute on their project plans from start to finish. This position involves a broad spectrum of responsibilities aimed at guaranteeing program success and delivering exceptional service to customers. The ideal candidate is highly motivated, experienced working with senior level stakeholders (internally & externally) and managing complex/non-standard projects, with impeccable attention to detail and excellent interpersonal skills. Compensation for this role includes a competitive base salary plus eligibility to participate in our annual incentive plan.

Key Requirements & Responsibilities 

  • Develop and nurture lasting relationships with customers, serving as a trusted advisor throughout the entirety of the customer lifecycle journey. Defining compliance programs from start to finish, working with the Program Support teams to execute on tasks required to achieve client milestones; 

  • Provides senior level support while managing the client relationship and the lifetime value of each assigned account, helping clients realize the economic value of their subscriptions to preserve and grow revenue.

  • Manage an assigned book of business, overseeing the overall Customer Health and associated performance metrics. 

  • Lead high-level strategic planning sessions with Assent's customers, including Executive Business Reviews: 

    • Conduct program reviews to have a deep understanding of the needs, status, gaps and next steps to ensure all client tasks are proactively anticipated and supported. 

    • Aligns solutions to address customers’ specific challenges, optimizing business value and increasing product adoption;

    • Analyze program results and supply chain responsiveness to identify additional program strategies and opportunities for improvement with the Program Support teams. 

  • Identify client goals and success metrics, ensuring quality product configuration during implementation and conducting regular progress check-ins, in collaboration with Assent's Professional Services team.

  • Available to provide best practice and guidance where needed for Associate CSMs and CSMs for client escalations;

  • Support the Sales team in ongoing renewal management of owned accounts to meet renewal targets.

  • Serve as a peer partner to new team members as required.

  • Coordinate user permissions in the Assent platform with Platform Operations.

  • Provides consultation, advocates and collaborates with all internal groups to ensure client success, growth, and the creation of strong customer references and referrals.

  • Provides recommendations while working with Product Management to identify and drive improvements in product offerings, processes, systems, and tools.

  • Possess intermediate regulatory knowledge in order to consult with clients in program direction;

  • Input and maintain up-to-date communications, conversations, and correspondence with Assent clients in the CRM.

  • Take on special projects to enhance customer success management processes. This can include leading groups of individual contributors through projects and process development. 

Qualifications

  • Excellent oral and written communication skills in English (additional languages are an asset) - you communicate clearly, concisely and with tact;

  • A University, College and/or Post Graduate Certificate in Environmental Studies, International Business, Supply Chain Management, Product/Materials Compliance, a related area of study or equal working experience;

  • 6+ years of experience in customer success, project management, and/or consulting roles;

  • Proven experience in consultative customer management and/or project management roles, leading initiatives with external stakeholders;

  • Experience working in a technology/SaaS and/or a Professional Services organization would be considered an asset;

  • Advanced Microsoft Excel  and data management and analysis skills - able to leverage all Excel functions to analyze and report on complex datasets;

  • You are proficient in the use of MS Office Suite and Google Applications and other Office Productivity tools.

 

Additional Information

Life at Assent

Wellness: We believe that you and your family’s well being is important. As a result, we offer vacation time that increases with tenure, comprehensive benefits packages (details vary by country), life leave days and more.

Financial Benefits: It’s not all about the money – well, it’s a little about the money. We understand that financial health is important and we offer a competitive base salary, a corporate bonus program, retirement savings options and more.

Life at Assent: There is purpose beyond your work. We provide our team members with flexible work options, volunteer days and opportunities to get involved in corporate giving initiatives.

Lifelong Learning: At Assent, curiosity is not only valued but encouraged. You will receive professional development days that are available to you the day you start.

At Assent, we are committed to growing and sustaining an environment where our team members feel included, valued, and heard. Our diversity and equal opportunity practices are guided and championed by our Diversity and Inclusion Working Group and our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion includes recruiting and retaining team members from diverse backgrounds and experiences, and fostering a culture of belonging where all team members are included, treated with dignity and respect, promoted on their merits, and placed in positions to contribute to business success.

If you require assistance or accommodation throughout any part of the interview and selection process, please contact [email protected] and we will be happy to help.  

We use AI to support parts of our recruitment process, such as note-taking and initial shortlisting based on job-related qualifications. AI does not make hiring decisions. All candidates will speak with a real person, and final decisions are always made by our recruitment team.

Skills Required

  • Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
  • University, college, or postgraduate certificate in Environmental Studies, International Business, Supply Chain Management, Product or Materials Compliance, a related field, or equivalent work experience
  • 6+ years of experience in customer success, project management, and/or consulting roles
  • Experience in consultative customer management and/or project management, leading initiatives with external stakeholders
  • Intermediate regulatory knowledge
  • Advanced Microsoft Excel and data management and analysis skills
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, Google Applications, and other office productivity tools
  • Experience working in a technology/SaaS or Professional Services organization
  • Additional language proficiency
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The Company
HQ: Ottawa, Ontario
941 Employees
Year Founded: 2010

What We Do

Assent is the leader in supply chain sustainability management solutions. With more than a decade of experience, Assent is specifically focused on complex manufacturers, a subset of manufacturers in the industrial equipment, electronics, medical device, aerospace/defense and automotive verticals whose products have a long design cycle and shelf life. More importantly, with thousands of parts making up a single product — and equally as many supplier partners across their global supply chain — complex manufacturers have extreme supply chain sustainability requirements. The Assent solution blends the SaaS technology platform with managed services and its world-class Regulatory Team of subject matter experts who keep customers ahead of compliance and regulatory changes across the globe. Assent’s customers use our solutions across product compliance, trade compliance and ESG to capture, track, report on and manage supply chain compliance and sustainability performance of their suppliers. Assent is on a mission to make the supply chains of complex manufacturers deeply and durably good by helping them see deeper into their supply chains, be smarter with powerful data, and grow better to seize market opportunities.

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