Senior Customer Success Account Manager (german Speaking)

Microsoft Microsoft · Big Tech · Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal +1 · Customer Success Account Mgmt

Senior Customer Success Account Manager for Microsoft's AI-powered global sales team, focusing on Small Medium Enterprises and Channel partners. The role involves accelerating customer business value across Microsoft's Digital Cloud platforms by leveraging business acumen, industry perspectives, customer knowledge, and technical expertise. Responsibilities include customer relationship management, customer success leadership, and delivery/program management to ensure customers achieve their strategic and transformational cloud projects.

What you'd actually do

  1. Customer Relationship Management: You will develop relationships and influence with key customer stakeholders, that build joint accountability of their defined outcomes and long term trust.
  2. Customer Success Leadership and Customer Strategy and Growth: You will align planning and execution to priorities that have been agreed on between the customer and Microsoft unlocking tangible customer value.
  3. You will bring operational rigor to planning and delivery, leveraging resources and investments optimally, to achieve accelerated consumption and usage outcomes.
  4. Customer Success Leadership - Delivery and Program Management: You will lead the delivery of program planning, execution and customer-facing delivery reviews, and engagement with key customer stakeholders to address agreed-upon customer outcomes and account priorities that deliver ongoing customer success.
  5. You will initiate conversations with customers to connect customer objectives and the current Microsoft portfolio of work in the customer account and ensure alignment of Microsoft technology and services with the customer goals and objectives.

Skills

Required

  • Fluent in English and German languages
  • Microsoft or competitor equivalent (e.g., AWS) certification in relevant technologies (e.g., Azure, 365)
  • Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Foundation certification or equivalent service management certification
  • Project Management Institute (PMI) or equivalent Project Management certification
  • Prosci or equivalent certification

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Sociology, Psychology, Computer Science or related field AND several years customer success, solution delivery, practice management, customer-facing consulting, or portfolio management experience
  • OR Master's Degree in Business, Sociology, Psychology, Computer Science, or related field AND several years customer success, solution delivery, practice management, customer-facing consulting, or portfolio management experience
  • OR equivalent experience
  • Multiple years relevant work experience within customer industry