Manager, Services

Celonis Celonis · Data AI · New York, NY · Services

Manager for a Services team at Celonis, a leader in Process Intelligence and Process Mining. The role focuses on leading consultants and project managers to drive successful deployments of Celonis technology, including services sales cycles, project scoping, and customer engagement. The role involves partnering with Sales and Value Engineering, managing project portfolios, driving value and adoption, ensuring product knowledge, leading people, and building partner relationships.

What you'd actually do

  1. Sales - position and sell the right services, work closely and build trust with Sales and Value Engineering to support ACV land and expand motions; maximize services revenue and ensure utilization targets
  2. Delivery - manage portfolio of projects to success, build relationships directly with largest/most strategic customers in region; ensure timely and high-quality deployments of the Celonis technology, with a constant focus on driving measurable business impact and delivering tangible value, that meet customer requirements, accelerate time to first value and drive measurable business impact; communicate with stakeholders in Celonis’ largest customers, handle escalations and navigate challenging situations with positive and balanced results; manage, forecast and monitor resource capacity and utilization, staffing appropriately all customer engagements
  3. Value and Adoption - Drive a value-focused mindset within the team, ensure project governance to deliver rapid, tangible improvements and fast ROI; drive adoption by ensuring comprehensive adoption plans are incorporated into each project, including user onboarding, training, and knowledge transfer, in collaboration with the Academy.
  4. Product - ensure a focus on deep product and technical knowledge, that will provide thought leadership for our customers, and best practice implementation and adoption of Celonis software, especially in the area of new product introduction. Ensure that the Consulting team is fully enabled and leverages all product capabilities on customer deployments
  5. People - build, support, enable a high performance team; lead and manage a team of approx. 5-10 Celonis Project managers and Consultants, specializing one or more industry verticals; proactively manage hiring, attrition, productivity, morale, resource allocation, team motivation and training, across the Consulting team

Skills

Required

  • Program Management
  • Project Management
  • Team Leadership
  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Sales Support
  • SaaS Implementation
  • Enterprise Software Deployment
  • Recruiting
  • Talent Management
  • Communication Skills

Nice to have

  • Process Mining
  • BI/Analytics Project Leadership
  • Transformational Customer Programs
  • Celonis Product Knowledge

What the JD emphasized

  • 7+ years of experience in delivering high complex projects as a Program Manager or Program Director
  • Proven leadership experience either directly managing or indirectly leading teams focused on BI/analytics project
  • Proven track record of leading complex transformational customer programs
  • Good understanding of the implementation of Celonis products, at a level required to lead and direct Celonis Consultants and Project Managers
  • Experience in managing professional services teams, preferably in enterprise SaaS companies
  • Experience of building relationships with sales teams, involvement in deals
  • Proven leadership in interacting with senior / executive level customers
  • Experience in recruiting, motivating and retaining top talent