Customer Success Account Mgmt

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**Customer Success**:
***Microsoft aspires to help our customers achieve their own digital transformation, leveraging the power of Microsoft Cloud solutions and support offerings. To this end, Microsoft invests in a dedicated Customer Success team that will help Microsoft customers successfully realize their business outcomes.
- We are always learning. Insatiably curious. We lean into uncertainty, take risks, and learn quickly from our mistakes. We build on each other's ideas because we are better together. We stand in awe of what humans dare to achieve and are motivated every day to empower others to do more and achieve more through our technology and innovation. Together we make a difference.
**Responsibilities**:
As a Customer Success Account Manager (CSAM), you are the primary customer facing role responsible for customer success through delivery management of cross-functional programs and strong customer and internal stakeholder relationships. The prevailing business priority is the customers' successful adoption and productive use of Microsoft cloud technologies. You are front and center with our customers in support of their digital journey and empowering them to achieve more and accelerating customer value.
The CSAM role is a leader on the account team who partners with the ATU to programmatically align the consumption plan to the account plan and leads the delivery execution and support team. The CSAM orchestrates prioritized programs, projects, and milestones for customer business value realization and consumption.
**Key Accountabilities include**:
**Partner with your customer and Account Team**- Bring Customer and industry insights to the Account Planning rhythm to lead prioritized programs that drive outcomes across all solution areas.
**Accountable for the Consumption plan**- In partnership with the account team, accountable for the development and execution of the internal and customer-facing aspects cross-cloud consumption plan, identifying and activating technical resources to deliver customer outcomes. Ensures prioritized Success Engagements progress from Validate through Commit with a Program Delivery plan and up-to-date milestones.
**Engages Customer Sponsors**- Establishes and nurtures strong sponsorship and manages the relationships with the customer to drive the execution of the support coverage model, consumption roadmap & delivery execution oversight. and manage the communication & escalation strategies with customer stakeholders.
**Leverages technology knowledge**- Has the technical depth and confidence to identify and propose outcomes related to the deployment and health of customer solutions and workloads, leveraging deeper technical resources as needed
**Accountable for Delivery Orchestration & Support Outcomes that support Solution and Operational Health outcomes**- Provides leadership and orchestration across the Success & Support (CSU) team, Microsoft technical specialists, customer technical teams, Microsoft and partner project teams, balances prioritization between implementing new capabilities and ensuring customer operational health, while fulfilling Support contract obligations- Define outcomes to improve the health, performance, and business capabilities of the prioritized workloads to drive customer value realization.- Track, escalate, and plan for the remediation of technical blockers and provide engineering feedback to further our product and solutions as appropriate.
**Qualifications**:
**Key Capabilities**:
We are looking for a highly motivated and passionate Customer Success Account Manager to drive program management for strategic customers that have a significant number of key cross-cloud workload engagements running concurrently. As the CSAM you will drive consumption planning & execution, as well as the acceleration of cloud adoption from Pilot/MVP to production for customer cloud engagements. This will be done by providing cross-engagement oversight, resource orchestration, and blocker escalation, all while operating in close collaboration with key account team unit members and business partners who are supporting customer success.
**Experience**:
***5+ years of success in complex technical engagement management and/or program management required. Prior work experience in a Program Manager or Engagement Manager position focused on Cloud and software/services solution preferred.
**Leadership**:
***This role requires strong communication skills, as well as displaying
- executive presence and confidence in varying levels of customer situations. The CSAM must show

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