Customer Success Manager

Customer Excellence Manager – North AmericaThe Customer Excellence Manager is responsible for engaging with clients to drive value realization in the solution and mitigate retention risk. Through direct client engagements, the Customer Excellence Manager ensures optimization and the resolution of issues related to client dissatisfaction so that clients can use the Cornerstone solution to achieve business outcomes.The Customer Excellence Manager will partner directly with clients and Account Management in achieving client satisfaction to drive retention and growth within Cornerstone’s customer base. This critical role is a one-stop trusted resource supporting customers with a blend of business process knowledge, talent management expertise and deep functional and technical knowledge of Cornerstone. They will also serve as a customer advocate cross functionally within the organization.The Customer Excellence Managers are part of a shared services team focused on optimization and driving resolutions to client business needs that are impacting client CSAT post go live. They leverage a strong understanding of key customer outcomes, strong product knowledge and a highly customer centric approach. They engage directly with clients to deliver optimization workshops and coaching. They also partner with Account Management to mitigate and address client satisfaction issues in a SWAT approach.This position will report to the Customer Excellence team within Customer Success.In this role you will:

Be a key part of a critical team focused on optimization, customer satisfaction and retention

Be a trusted partner for post-go live customers on process and product functionality

Understand customer business drivers and critical use cases and be able to align them to product functionality to drive key customer outcomes

Recommend best practice use case of Cornerstone based on understanding of customer’s business, use cases and success criteria for getting value

Partner with customers to understand their current and future business goals and provide recommendations on how to achieve those goals through Cornerstone

Navigate and mitigate post-go-live challenges blocking client from realizing value

Serve as an advocate for the customer cross-functionally across the organization

Work directly with clients to deliver optimization workshops and coaching

Help navigate complex software and technical questions for the customer and engage appropriate resources to resolve

Collaborate and work cross-functionally, engaging the appropriate resources as necessary

Empower customers to leverage best practices to increase adoption and utilization

Provide industry insights, guidance and recommendations to drive customer strategic outcomes

Understand and articulate key industry and product best practices

Provide just in time enablement, and how-to ‘quick wins’ to mitigate customer challenges

Support customers in understanding the resources, training, support, and services available to help make them successful

Deliver Office Hours sessions

Other duties or special projects as assigned

Pass initial certification exams and maintain expert level knowledge of Cornerstone product offerings and configuration options by staying current with releases

and being the rockstar you are, you will be willing to take on additional responsibilities as needed

You’ve got what it takes if you

Have a B.A./B.S. or equivalent professional experience in Human Resources, Organizational Development or Finance

Have a minimum of three years of experience using the Cornerstone application with a demonstrated high level of skill

Are highly detail-oriented and able to manage multiple projects simultaneously

Are organized and methodical with excellent follow-up to meet customer expectations and deadlines

Have excellent communication, presentation, consulting and analytical skills

Have passion for customer success

Enjoy working in a fast-paced, dynamic organization

Are able to adapt changes in roles and responsibilities

Are able to travel up to 15-30%

Extra dose of awesome if you have .

SPHR, SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, CCP, CPLP designation

MBA

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