Renewals Specialist (remote)

CrowdStrike CrowdStrike · Enterprise · TX +1 · Remote

This role is for a Renewals Specialist at CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity company. The primary focus is on retaining and expanding customer revenue by managing contract renewals, quoting accurately, and collaborating with sales teams. The role involves understanding customer license history, preparing proposals, and ensuring timely renewal of contracts. It also includes gathering requirements for upsells and providing customer feedback to product teams. The role requires experience in renewals, sales operations, or account management, proficiency in Salesforce, and strong communication and organizational skills.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work with Sales Operations/Finance/Deal Desk to validate that ACV categories and account ARR is accurate in Salesforce.com and escalating complex scenarios for review.
  2. Research customer license purchase and renewal history and making recommendations based on prior activity.
  3. Gather requirements from Sales/Partners/Customer for renewal, expansion and upsell opportunities with clear understanding of co-term/true-up calculations and quoting.
  4. Be a trusted resource for Sales on all things Sales Process as well as CrowdStrikes’ Pricing & Packaging policies. Build Proposals, proposals, price, and discount product portfolio.
  5. Help to calculate and validate challenging quoting scenarios including multidate co-terms, staggered deployments, module/feature upgrades with product dependencies and securing necessary internal approvals.

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years of experience in Renewals, Sales Operations, Account Management, or Customer Success
  • Proficient with MS Excel; Advanced formulas, prior work with large data sets, connectors & pivot tables highly preferred.
  • Experience with Salesforce.com and/or Salesforce CPQ (SteelBrick)
  • SFDC Report building and Opportunity/Contract management experience
  • Ability to successfully balance a wide variety of daily tasks and adjust priorities on the fly in a fast-paced environment over multiple engagements.
  • Exceptional communication skills demonstrated through email, conference calls, presentations, and internal meetings
  • Ability to work independently or in a team environment.
  • Extreme attention to detail and highly organized

Nice to have

  • High Tech, SaaS, Cybersecurity preferred
  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university or relevant experience.
  • Previous experience managing SaaS Subscription renewals process ideal.
  • Experience managing forecasts in Clari preferred but not required.
  • Tech savvy & excited to work in a fast-paced environment

What the JD emphasized

  • customer revenue
  • customer revenue
  • customer proposals
  • renewed on-time
  • quoted accurately
  • pricing uplifts
  • module upsells
  • entitlement vs actual usage
  • Salesforce.com
  • Sales
  • Business Value Consultants
  • pricing
  • packaging
  • product portfolio
  • co-term
  • true-up
  • Sales Process
  • decision maker
  • buying process
  • budget
  • timeframe
  • renewal quotes
  • Product teams
  • new feature requests
  • product enhancements
  • customer service
  • escalation
  • support issues
  • Churn Risk Mitigation
  • Protect ARR
  • Avoid Surprises
  • at-risk renewals
  • Call to Action
  • account team