Customer Success Manager (nonprofit / Ngo)

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · Amsterdam, Netherlands

Salesforce is seeking a Customer Success Manager for their Nonprofit/NGO sector. The role involves acting as a trusted advisor and strategic partner to customers, ensuring they maximize value from the Salesforce platform, particularly its AI capabilities. Responsibilities include managing customer relationships, coordinating service delivery, providing feature guidance, advising on new releases, and advocating for customers during issue resolution. The role requires significant experience in technical customer success, Salesforce CRM, and consulting, with a focus on understanding customer business needs and translating them into technical solutions.

What you'd actually do

  1. Serve as the single point of customer accountability responsible for the orchestration of all Signature deliverables, experience, renewal, and expansion.
  2. Build trusted relationships with nonprofit and NGO customers, acting as a strategic advisor
  3. Cultivate and maintain stakeholder relationships with the customer’s IT and business executive leadership, sponsors, and decision-makers within customer organizations that have purchased Signature.
  4. Help your customers achieve their business goals and outcomes on the Salesforce platform by:
  5. Act as an advocate for customers during the triage and resolution of high-severity cases to assist with the timely resolution of these issues.

Skills

Required

  • Minimum of 7 years of work experience in one or more of the following: Technical Customer Success, Salesforce CRM or SaaS platform use, project leadership, technology solutions development, technical solutions, and/or solutions architecture.
  • Experience with Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud and/or a relevant competing platform.
  • 4+ years’ experience in management consulting services.
  • Exceptional communication and presentation skills with demonstrated ability to communicate and influence effectively at all levels of the organisation, including executive and C-level.
  • Skills for analysing technical concepts and translating them into business terms and mapping business requirements into technical features.
  • Ability to explain complex technical concepts in business-friendly terms to customers, then explain customer needs to internal partners.
  • Knowledge of software development process and design methodologies.
  • Experience leading efforts of cross-functional teams to facilitate the resolution or disposition of customer needs or projects.

Nice to have

  • Experience working with Nonprofit Organizations
  • Salesforce product certifications are a plus (AI Associate, Administrator, Platform App Builder, Sales Cloud Consultant, and Service Cloud Consultant).
  • Knowledge of Salesforce products and features, capabilities, best use, and how to deploy.
  • Experience working with Enterprise-level customers.