Customer Success Manager
Ritchie Bros. · Norwalk, CT · 1 mo ago
On-siteCustomer ServiceFull-time
Responsibilities
- Own and manage a portfolio of strategic customer accounts after go-live
- Serve as the primary post-sale relationship owner and trusted advisor for assigned clients
- Build strong relationships with executive sponsors, operational stakeholders, and day-to-day users
- Create and maintain account plans that support adoption, retention, renewal readiness, and expansion
- Execute a structured Customer Success playbook, including regular client check-ins, business reviews, success planning, and proactive account management
- Lead Quarterly Business Reviews and Executive Business Reviews that communicate performance, adoption, value realization, risks, and next steps
- Maintain customer health using available data such as usage trends, order volume, support activity, renewal timing, stakeholder engagement, and client feedback
- Identify churn risk early and develop action plans to improve account health and retention
- Track client goals and outcomes to ensure customers receive measurable value from the platform
- Support renewal strategy and readiness for assigned accounts
- Partner with Sales and Account Management to identify expansion, upsell, and cross-sell opportunities
- Help improve retention, customer satisfaction, gross revenue retention, and net revenue retention outcomes
- Proactively identify opportunities to increase client engagement, platform utilization, and long-term account value
- Balance customer advocacy with business priorities and commercial discipline
- Work closely with Sales, Product, Support, Implementation, Engineering, and other internal teams to resolve client needs and improve the customer experience
- Cook up internal resources to address escalations, technical questions, service issues, enhancement requests, and adoption barriers
- Translate customer feedback into clear, actionable insights for internal teams
- Contribute to process improvement as the Customer Success function continues to mature
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in Customer Success, Account Management, Client Success, Strategic Account Management, or a related client-facing role
- Prior experience in SaaS, enterprise software, procurement technology, equipment rental, contractor services, fleet services, or related industries strongly preferred
- Proven ability to build trusted relationships with stakeholders at multiple levels, including executives
- Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to lead strategic client conversations and business reviews
- Commercially aware, with experience supporting renewals, retention, account growth, upsell, cross-sell, or expansion opportunities
- Strong enough technical acumen to understand platform functionality, integrations, customer workflows, and technical escalations, and to communicate those concepts clearly to clients
- Working knowledge of procurement workflows, supplier onboarding, punchout, cXML, EDI, integrations, or platform-based transaction models is a strong plus
- Experience using tools such as Salesforce, Jira, Confluence, Google Sheets, Google Docs, Gemini, Copilot, or similar systems
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple accounts, priorities, meetings, and follow-up actions
- Comfortable working in a hybrid office environment, with required in-office presence Tuesday through Thursday
- Willingness to travel occasionally for client meetings, executive reviews, trade shows, or industry events