
Senior Customer Success Manager
Key Skills
Job Description
Leads the end-to-end holistic delivery of the overall operational service for our strategic customers, across our
internal functions, processes, and people to enable effective and seamless service excellence with customer
success at the heart of our culture.
Responsibilities
- Accountable for overall post sales customer health for in scope customers across
- Client Engagement
- Meeting cadence, attendance, frequency
- Service Management – SLA attainment including implementation and support risk.
- Financial Health – Aged debt and churn risk
- Product utilization – Customer consumption and awareness gap
- Leading regular customer facing service reviews with reporting aligned to the contractual and DLR standards
- Increase customer awareness of organization changes, new and existing Product bulletins and System, process & policy changes
- Contractual SLA attainment tracking including SLA penalty review and validation based on contractual obligations
- Interlock with Implementation Services teams for post sales customer onboarding for new deployments successfully introducing customers to Digital Realty product and services
- Increase internal functional team awareness of enhanced customer operational requirements through Customer Playbooks.
- Enhanced Red event customer communication during & post incident to ensure key internal and customer stakeholders are appropriated informed.
- Identify ‘at risk’ renewals and potential churn ensuring awareness across accountable internal functional teams.
- Coordination of post RFS customer audits through to successful conclusion
- Closing the loop on all customer listening posts and surveys detractors to ensure follow up completed.
- Managing service-related customer escalations and complaints including their recording, management, escalation, and resolution
- Accountable for identifying and driving opportunities for service improvement through accountable functional teams and process owners Adhere to the Quality Management, Environment and Health & Safety Responsibility Matrix
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in, Business, IT, Engineering or related discipline or equivalent work experience in customer relationship
- Minimum 8+ years of experience in a customer facing roles in a service company, preferably a utility, data center, IT, or telecommunications company.
- Experience with Service Management, preferably of more complex international customers.
- ITIL qualifications and experience are preferred
- Levels of CSM will vary based on the customer type and expertise.
Core Responsibilities
The Senior Customer Success Manager leads the end-to-end operational service delivery for strategic customers to ensure service excellence. They are accountable for customer health, SLA attainment, financial health, and managing service-related escalations.
Requirements
Candidates must have a bachelor's degree in Business, IT, Engineering, or a related field. A minimum of 8+ years of experience in customer-facing roles within service-oriented industries like data centers or telecommunications is required.
About Digital Realty
Industry: IT Services and IT Consulting
Company size: 1,001-5,000 employees
Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company's global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data "meeting place". Digital Realty enables its customers with the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 30+ countries on six continents.