Senior Customer Success Manager

As a Senior Customer Success Manager, you will be part of the Basware Customer Success organization focused on our VIP accounts. The role of Customer Success is to provide services that help Basware customers adopt, optimize, and accelerate the benefits of their Basware solutions and services.

This hybrid position is to join our team from our Amsterdam location and will involve you working with named VIP customers, from multiple sectors and typically on a global scale, to ensure they are getting the most business value out of their investment in Basware.

The person we are looking for will need to have a strong focus and passion for driving adoption, customer retention, customer satisfaction and be comfortable playing a leading role when coordinating across Basware to deliver on success and improvement plans. You will also be comfortable speaking with all customer contacts at all levels, from AP teams to the C suite.

Key job tasks & responsibilities:
Develop and implement strategies for customer success

Create, maintain, and implement achievable customer success plans at any stage of the customer lifecycle. Continuously monitor, measure, guide and align both customer stakeholders and others within Basware to ensure tangible business outcomes are achieved and can be a reference

Act confidently as a networked purchase-to-pay practitioner and trusted advisor

Be able to continuously collect and provide both customers and others within Basware valuable guidance on best practice, industry trends and relevant benchmarks. Develop trusted relationships, including at the c-level, and engage to influence

Ensure successful ramp-up and adoption of Basware solutions and services

Provide guidance and steering decisions to the Basware and Customer implementation teams to ensure agreed upon business outcomes are met and/or mitigation strategies are activated.

Create, implement, and measure user and supplier adoption strategies linked to customer’s business outcomes. Actively measure adoption to identify and pursue opportunities. Work with customers and across internal teams, including product owners, to improve solutions and services and meet adoption objectives

Ability to identify opportunities where the customer would benefit from the use of additional Basware products. Work with the Sales teams in positioning the value and closing the sale of add on products and services

Manage operational activities to ensure success

Accountable for the successful delivery of success and service improvement plans, working both cross-functionally and at times leading virtual teams to deliver agreed actions in a coordinated manner and to optimize the customer experience

Deliver services designed to drive customer success, including workshops, coaching, and profiling customer’s maturity across sourcing, procurement, and finance to identify opportunities

Deliver and support the development of success services

Contribute to refining existing or develop new methodology, frameworks, and tools based on experience, research, and analysis

Cross collaborates with the Basware Sales teams

Identify and create opportunities to grow the Basware pipeline

Own the account in terms of renewals and upsells and actively drive these

SKILLS AND CANDIDATE

QUALIFICATIONS:

To thrive and succeed in this role, you will have significant experience in a customer facing, service-oriented role within a SAAS environment. Experience in Finance, procure-to-pay software systems and/or enterprise software applications, will be beneficial.

This is a fast paced and dynamic environment. We value employees who are confident, work well independently and in teams, are solution focused and for who adding value for the customer is a key focus area.

Required competencies and…