Are you a creative person who loves a challenge? Solve the complex puzzles you’ve been dreaming of as our Customer Success Executive. Oracle is a technology leader that’s changing how the world does business. We’re looking for an experienced and self-motivated person. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. Come and join us!
As Oracle SaaS Customer Success Services (CSS) team, our mission is to ensure the success of our SaaS install base, help our customers drive value from their investment in our SaaS applications while deploying more and expanding their usage. Oracle has the most complete and unified portfolio of modern, cloud based business applications on the planet and a large and successful customer base. Thrive in this crucial role!
Description
What You’ll Do
The objective of the Customer Success Executive (CSE) is to improve customer retention and expansion by facilitating activities and guiding them to the solutions value while also driving increased SaaS revenue. The CSE works at a strategic level across all product pillars in the cloud, leading teams in the delivery and continuous improvement of large scale ground-breaking cloud projects. In this role you will act as an enabler and trusted advisor to the customer to ensure they remain successful and engaged with their entire Cloud solution, so they understand the full value of their investment with Oracle. For this role you will need to be definitive in your goals but flexible in your approach. As part of the role you will continuously improve on your network and internal relationships, working closely with sales, implementation success managers and customer success managers to enable further adoption of Oracle products within your customers. You are one team, all responsible for delivering value to the customer with strong product knowledge and discovery expertise.
You will be responsible for delivering consistent, adherent and diligent collaboration with the internal collaborator teams and will work collaboratively with them to deliver activities that fit with the strategic direction of the customer over the entire cloud estate.
As a Customer Success Executive, you will:
- Collaborate with the Sales Manager and broader account team to develop and deliver an overall account strategy and plan for the customer, that directs company resources to encourage renewal and return of investment cross pillar.
- Develop and maintain a continuous close relationship with the relevant Account Team throughout the customer lifecycle.
- Facilitate relationships across various customer teams, brands, and/or departments to further strengthen Oracle’s partnership with customers.
- Regularly provide visibility of account at an executive level both internally and externally, defining progress against customers’ business objectives; any metrics that define success to the customer (return on investment); and identifying risks and appropriate mitigations.
- Deliver regular business reviews and success plans to senior executives and key business collaborators.
- Coordinate cross pillar activities across the account to ensure significant achievements for your customer such as upgrades, new releases and new features are managed effectively and with no adverse impact on co-existing pillars and identifying lessons learnt for future achievements within or across pillar.
- Engage and understand the customers cloud strategy within and cross pillar in order to guide the customer by providing resources that can assist their strategic business direction across pillar.
- Support other CSMs in their role acting as a ‘coach’ in working effectively with the customers support service to ensure it is being effective for enhancement requests and blocking issues.
- Develop a strong relationship with the senior leadership in your customer on a technical and business level.
- Support in collaborating with Oracle’s Reference team to ensure ‘reference fatigue’ is avoided and customers can take advantage of our reference program.
- Understand the value of the internal Oracle processes and tools available to assist your search for answers and for pro-active planning.
Required Skills/Experience
What You’ll Bring
You have that rare combination—a sharp technical brain and a head for business. You’ll use this to help customers achieve real-world success with our products. We also look for:
- Experience in a customer facing role involving cloud based/SaaS technology with collaboration of senior collaborators.
- Proven ability to delivery complex projects with multiple internal and external collaborators.
- Proven ability to develop and cultivate lasting customer relationships with limited resources.
- Strong technical understanding around cloud solutions, operating concepts and infrastructure (cloud, integration, lifecycle management etc).
- Experience in delivering continuous improvement and change effectively to organisations.
- Project management and delivery including effective risk management skills.
- Pro-active commercial competence.
- Leadership and effective influencing skills.
- Written and verbally communicate a complex message in a simplistic way.
- Team working and collaboration.
- Resilient, managing pressured situations effectively.
- Confident and engaging presentation skills, personable, positive, approachable & tenacious with effective objection handling skills.
- Extremely diligent & succinct organisation & communication skills.
- Strong desire to learn and develop personally.
- Strong time management work ethic and focus on delivery.
- Able to travel at short notice 50% of the time.
- Mirroring & ability to engage and be engaging at all levels.
