Staff Support Account Mgr

**Company Description**
At ServiceNow, our technology makes the world work for everyone, and our people make it possible. We move fast because the world can’t wait, and we innovate in ways no one else can for our customers and communities. By joining ServiceNow, you are part of an ambitious team of change makers who have a restless curiosity and a drive for ingenuity. We know that your best work happens when you live your best life and share your unique talents, so we do everything we can to make that possible. We dream big together, supporting each other to make our individual and collective dreams come true. The future is ours, and it starts with you.

With more than 7,400+ customers, we serve approximately 80% of the Fortune 500, and we're on the 2021 list of FORTUNE World's Most Admired Companies®.

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**Job Description** Senior Support Account Manager**

**Location**:
ServiceNow is changing the way people work. With a service-orientation toward the activities, tasks and processes that make up day-to-day work life, we help the modern enterprise operate faster and be more scalable than ever before.

We are disruptive. We work hard but try not to take ourselves too seriously. We are highly adaptable and constantly evolving. We are passionate about our product, and we live for our customers. We have high expectations and a career at ServiceNow means challenging yourself to always be better.

**Role**:
ServiceNow is seeking highly motivated and professional individuals to join our team and play a critical role in delivering world-class customer satisfaction. In the role of Support Account Manager (SAM), you will be a member of a highly skilled team focused on a select set of high profile, strategic customers whilst delivering high quality service. Additionally, you will be responsible for driving cross-functional teams to ensure customer issues are clearly identified and resolved effectively.

As a SAM, you will coordinate a high-touch support experience for our largest and more strategic customers. The SAM will be delivering both proactive and reactive services and act as a central point of contact for all support related activities. Working as a ServiceNow and a customer advocate, the SAM helps coordinate activities to ensure timely resolution of customer cases and problems. A SAM provides regular communications by conducting service reviews, providing operational summaries, and driving status updates on all open high-priority cases. A SAM should be comfortable presenting to all levels, including C-Level stakeholders.

**What you get to do in this role**:

- Use industry leading software management tools to proactively identify potential degradation of service issues to mitigate and/or resolve business impacting events for customers.
- Deeply understand the customer’s business strategies, challenges, and IT landscape. Possess the ability to deliver business value by aligning ServiceNow solutions to address the customer’s short and long-term support needs.
- Offer exceptional customer service, including maintaining customer relationships and ensuring ServiceNow’s reputation is protected.
- Partnering with the customers assigned counterpart on a frequent cadence with the intention of continually moving the relationship forward.
- Ability to maintain credibility and trust through action and responsiveness within your designated customer accounts.
- Drive regular scheduled customer conference calls and customer meetings to ensure the continual flow of information with timely updates on all open cases, changes, problems, and on-going projects.
- Facilitate summary status reports, including monthly performance reviews and quarterly service reviews.
- Act as the mediator between customers and ServiceNow with reference to mandatory upgrades, patches, and security requirements.
- Manage, document and report on performance against service level agreements (SLA's) and where SLA’s are not being met document and oversee an action plan that will result in meeting and exceeding those commitments routinely.
- Drive continual improvement for the customer and their environment through trend analysis and partnering with the internal account team to be a champion of change.
- Review open cases, problems and changes communicating aligned priorities to assigned ServiceNow teams to ensure a timely response and resolution.
- Act as an escalation point for customer impacting business critical issues.

**Qualifications** To be successful in this role, we need someone who has**:
Essential:

- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English language
- Account management experience
- Fundamental understanding of ITSM in large organizations
- Comfortable interacting with all levels of management
- Working knowledge of ITIL incident, problem and release management process and procedures
- Ability to effectively