Customer Success Manager
Equifax · Louisville, KY · 1 mo ago
Full-time
What You’ll Do
- Strategic Customer Engagement
- Serve as the primary trusted advisor and advocate for key client stakeholders, ensuring long-term success, strategic alignment, and maximum value realization from Equifax solutions.
- Proactively monitor and maintain customer health, leading executive service reviews (QBRs/ABRs) to quantify realized business value and drive adoption, usage, and net retention.
- Act as the high-level point of contact for complex issues, providing clients transparency on the status of issues/requests and translating customer needs into technical requirements for internal teams.
- Participate in the implementation process solely to build foundational relationships and ensure a seamless hand-off to the post-implementation phase (implementation team manages project execution).
- Customer Relationship & Growth Strategy (Retention & Expansion)
- Own the full strategic contract renewal cycle for the assigned portfolio, developing data-backed retention strategies and utilizing relationship health indicators to drive successful deal closure.
- Actively identify and position opportunities for product penetration and expansion, working with Account Executives (AEs) using strategic account planning frameworks (e.g., GOST) to drive growth.
- Provide critical customer context and data to assist in the development of Request for Proposal (RFP) responses and support the broader sales organization.
- Product & Process Optimization
- Champion the voice of the customer to inform product roadmaps, coordinate internal Center of Excellence (COE) teams, and drive enhancement prioritization based on documented user needs.
- Educate clients on the business value of solutions and deliver comprehensive training and subject matter expertise, including periodic travel for on-site customer training sessions and conferences.
- Drive customer advocacy in resolving issues and serve as the strategic liaison for complex support tickets, translating technical issues and solutions to drive long-term process improvements.
- High-Impact Internal Collaboration
- Serve as a subject matter expert, acting as the connecting thread for internal teams with the customer and advocating for the customer's best interests in cross-functional meetings (Product, Engineering, Sales).
- Act as the primary communicator during major incidents, providing timely updates, delivering Root Cause Analyses (RCAs), and representing the customer's interests during system migrations and major projects.
- 5+ years of experience in Customer Success, Account Management, or a Strategic Consulting role (required) within the SaaS or Public Sector technology space (preferred).
- Proven track record of managing and successfully renewing multi-year, large-scale enterprise contracts, demonstrating strong financial acumen in retention.
- Demonstrated experience in developing and delivering data-driven business reviews (QBRs/ABRs) and value presentations to executive-level stakeholders.
- Expertise in leveraging CRM systems (e.g., Salesforce) for account planning, forecasting, and tracking customer health metrics.
- Experience working with complex, multi-divisional, multi-geographical customers.
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline or equivalent experience.
- Ability to travel periodically for client meetings, business reviews, conferences, and training events.
- Ability to travel up to 25%.