Customer Success Manager

Customer Success Manager

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We're obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we're shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you'll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We're in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you'll do meaningful work with Workmates who've got your back. In return, we'll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you've found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.

Customer Success is a key role to ensure Workday's customers achieve value from our solutions. In this role, you will be a key player that supports our customers on their Workday Adaptive Planning journey. You are an advisor and facilitator to our customers, partnering not only with your team but with Sales & Services to help customers achieve maximum value from Workday. You will be responsible for working with a number of customers, supporting them through regular checkpoints to drive value, adoption and retention. You will help identify new growth opportunities for success at every point on our customers' journey. You will be a part of the Workday's Planning Business unit CSM team, working closely across Sales, Services, and Product teams to drive a top notch Planning experience for customers.

The Customer Success Manager (CSM) plays a critical role in the success and execution of Workday Adaptive Planning. As a CSM, you will ensure the maximum value is derived from our products and services, by quantifying the value, driving adoption, sharing best practices, answering business questions, identifying opportunities and developing strategic goals and objectives.

Ultimately, your goal as a CSM is to ensure that the value derived from the solution far exceeds customer's expectations; as such, the role requires a combination of customer management experience and pricing expertise. Additionally, this role relies heavily on personal accountability for results, and a willingness to go 'the extra mile' for each and every customer.

What you'll be doing

• Establishing a trusted advisor relationship across the customers organization, from Executive Sponsors to Day to Day contacts, that works to ensure customer's are getting value from our products and services.
• Monitoring and facilitating the customer's adoption of our solution features and their overall business needs as they relate to our products.
• Stay on top of any major changes within their customer's organization to be able to effectively help manage the change and develop the relationships as necessary.
• Developing success plans/customer journey for customers that outline their critical success factors, metrics for success, potential issues, track progress and provide recommendations.
• Acting as a liaison between product management and the customer with a focus on communicating the Workday innovation roadmap and how the roadmap will influence customer activities.
• Leveraging customer relationships as needed for prospect references and driving customers to Workday Adaptive Planning events.
• Maintain revenue stream from each customer's subscription by creating and demonstrating top & bottom-line value for each customer.
• Managing renewals from end-to-end, including negotiating contracts. Identifying upsell/add-on opportunities and collaborating with Account Executives.

Expected results within 6-12 months:

• After receiving initial training/onboarding we expect you to have gained and maintain a deeper knowledge of Workday products and services across each product work stream
• Self-sufficient management of 50-60 enterprise accounts totaling 5M+ in ARR
• Actively ensure there is a roadmap in place for each of your accounts
• Timely execution of standard customer meetings and reviews for your defined accounts
• Achieve/exceed annual customer satisfaction targets and other defined Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Partnering with Renewals Management to manage all aspects of the renewal cycle, executing renewals in a timely fashion and maintaining renewal rate targets

About You

Basic Qualifications

• At least 5+ years of experience as a CSM supporting a SaaS solution
• Experience negotiating contracts and managing renewals
• Proven track record of overachieving goals and sales targets
• Familiar with change management practices, change communications and process re-engineering
• Experience with pricing principles and sales practices in SaaS selling environments
• Experience using a CRM such as Salesforce and a customer success tool like Gainsight
• Experience working within the EPM/CPM space or with financial ERP applications is a plus
• Proven account management/strategic planning experience
• Proven ability to collaborate and build strong relationships with customers especially at the Executive level and engage across corporate functions (ie. Sales, Managing Partners, Marketing, Customer Support, Professional Services, and Product Management)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to chair meetings or host webinars
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience