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Join CDW as an Associate Customer Success Manager, where you'll drive customer engagement and relationship management for technology solutions, ensuring clients fully utilize their services.

Responsibilities: Establish and maintain trusted customer relationships, manage account onboarding, drive solution adoption, and lead customer consultations throughout their lifecycle to enhance customer loyalty and promote upsell opportunities.

Skills: Proficient in IT relationship management, strong communication skills, analytical abilities, and comfortable with technology solutions, including Microsoft Office Suite and Salesforce CRM.

Qualifications: Associate's degree with 2 years of relevant experience or 4-7 years of equivalent expertise in IT relationship management or customer success.

Location: Vernon Hills, Illinois, United States

Compensation: $60000 - $85600 / Annually

Description

At CDW, we make it happen, together. Trust, connection, and commitment are at the heart of how we work together to deliver for our customers. It’s why we’re coworkers, not just employees. Coworkers who genuinely believe in supporting our customers and one another. We collectively forge our path forward with a level of commitment that speaks to who we are and where we’re headed. We’re proud to share our story and Make Amazing Happen at CDW.

Job Summary

The Associate Customer Success Manager (ACSM) role focuses on lifecycle engagement management of their CDW supported solutions. This role coordinates across sales, pre-sales, services, and channel teams to plan, organize and execute customer success strategies at scale. The incumbent analyzes the environment including customer entitlements and onboarding needs and the customer's technology requirements to define and guide the actions to be performed in the solution lifecycle.  

The Associate Customer Success Manager develops and maintains strategic relationships to influence service adoption and engagement lifecycle. Throughout the customer journey they aim to achieve a post sale trusted advisor relationship with set customer base.  The ACSM is expected to be a licensing and entitlement expert in multiple families of technology solutions.  

What you will do:

• Establish a trusted relationship with each assigned customer and drive continued value of our technology solutions. 
• Specific identification of phased upsell and cross-sell opportunities of solutions and services, and CDW services. 
• Engagement with multiple customers through proactive, open, responsive, and collaborative account management. 
• Ability to orchestrate and gain strong buy-in with multiple external and internal teams and be highly connected to solution Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) throughout the customer’s lifecycle. 
• Software Licensing Management Training and Support – entitlement, structure, portal(s), conversions, etc. 
• Manage the overall and ongoing relationship with multiple customers through proactive, open, responsive, and collaborative account management. 
• Coordinate, plan and execute Customer Onboarding sessions. 
• Lead Digital Touch engagements – large scale customer interactions and campaigns. 
• Facilitate frequent customer consultations and communications to strengthen relationships, conduct gap analysis and report on usage to promote customer loyalty. 
• Act as ‘Voice of the Customer’ to advocate customer needs/issues cross-departmentally and vendor partners as appropriate. 
• Demonstrates advanced insights and understanding of customers business/industry. 
• Develop adoption strategy for new products / features. 
• Strive to continually drive faster “time to value” and improve overall experience for our customers. 
• Leverage CDW solutions and services to drive scale and efficiency internally and with customers to promote collective success. 
• Drive renewals across assigned customer base. 
• Ensure customers are actively participating in support of the field-winning new business. 
• Internal project participation. 
• Skilled in usage and implementation of tools and processes leveraged in the Customer Success role. 
• Process Improvement: Continually look for ways to improve processes. 
• Share experience and knowledge of the role with peers and colleagues to foster their growth and development to enhance the organization’s ability to deliver value to our customers. 
• Provide data analysis using customer information, Internal data and partner and provider data. 
• Provide oversight to partners and providers. 

What we expect of you:

• Associate's degree, and 2- years of experience (dependent on specified Partner line of business/technology area) in IT relationship management, project management or account management, OR 
• 4-7 years of experience (dependent on specified Partner line of business/technology are) in IT relationship management, project management or account management. 
• Prior Customer Success experience or equivalent technology area expertise. 
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written. Includes handling IT terminology with diverse customer audiences. 
• Ability to balance multiple priorities simultaneously and adapt to the changing needs of the business while meeting deadlines. 
• Ability to work well with teams and independently. 
• Demonstrates a high degree of organization with solid attention to detail with a penchant for accuracy. 
• Develop and maintain positive working relationships with all internal clients and contacts. 
• Ability to communicate with coworkers at all levels in the organization. 
• Strong analytical skills with a proven ability to proactively collaborate and build relationships, take initiative, and creatively problem solve. 
• Ability to continually learn new technology and to keep pace with an ever-changing industry. 
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 10% or as needed to other CDW locations or client sites. 
• Ability to understand, remember, and apply oral and/or written instructions or other information. 
• Ability to organize thoughts and ideas into understandable terminology. 
• Ability to multi-task, organize and prioritize. 
• Ability to apply common sense in performing job. 
• Ability to understand and follow basic instructions and guidelines. 
• Ability to understand and resolve issues and escalations appropriately. 
• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite. 
• IT knowledgeable a plus. 
• Knowledge of technology, software, and licensing programs a plus. 
• ITIL Foundation Certification a plus. 
• End-user experience with SalesForce CRM a plus. 
• Experience with Gainsight or like Customer Success toolset a plus. 
• Preference to having experience working with partner IBM

Pay range: $60,000 - $85,600, depending on experience and skill set

Annual bonus target of 25% subject to terms and conditions of plan

Benefits overview: https://cdw.benefit-info.com/

Salary ranges may be subject to geographic differentials

We make technology work so people can do great things.  

CDW is a leading multi-brand provider of information technology solutions to business, government, education and healthcare customers in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. A Fortune 500 company and member of the S&P 500 Index, CDW helps its customers to navigate an increasingly complex IT market and maximize return on their technology investments. Together, we unite. Together, we win. Together, we thrive.

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