Customer Success Manager, Senior Manager (Manufacturing)
Hybrid (Tokyo)Full timePosted 2d ago
About the role
Senior Customer Success Manager specialized in manufacturing, partnering with customers to accelerate business value and ROI from Salesforce investments. Reports to a leadership team and engages executive sponsors to drive adoption across multiple Clouds and LoB domains.
Responsibilities
- Leverage Customer Success Methodology to understand customer goals, assess capabilities, and provide recommendations to accelerate business and technology objectives
- Develop understanding of the customer's Salesforce implementation and evangelize Salesforce capabilities across all Clouds
- Guide customers on org strategy, governance, and change management best practices
- Demonstrate hands-on Salesforce product knowledge by applying platform features to business priorities and roadmap
- Proactively identify risks to achieving business goals and work with the account team to create risk mitigation plans
- Produce and execute a comprehensive adoption path including current state, target future state with timeline, and enablement plan
- Deliver business value and innovation by understanding key business challenges and growth potential
- Build and foster executive-level relationships with IT and business leaders, sponsors and decision makers
- Collaborate with the account team and Salesforce executives to network within accounts from executive level down
- Recommend additional Salesforce services and advisory experts when needed
- Proactively communicate product changes, degradations, outages, end of life, and other updates
- Fluency in Japanese (reading, writing, listening)
Qualifications
- 7–10 years of manufacturing industry expertise (preferred)
- In-depth knowledge of one or more LoB, cloud, or industry area
- Strong consulting skills with a track record as a Trusted Advisor
- Ability to engage C-level stakeholders and handle difficult discussions
- Strong knowledge of Salesforce product and platform capabilities
- Ability to articulate governance value to business and IT executives
- Understanding of enterprise architecture principles (preferred)
- Ability to quickly grasp and explain technology and business concepts
- Japanese language fluency (required)
Skills
Required:Customer Success MethodologyStakeholder ManagementGovernance and Change ManagementSalesforce KnowledgeRisk ManagementExecutive CommunicationJapanese Language
Benefits
- Not disclosed in description
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