Customer Success Manager - Nordic Cluster

Customer Success Manager - Nordic Cluster

This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2-3 days per week from an HPE office.

Job Description:

At HPE, we believe our success is based on the success of our customers. As a Customer Success Manager, you play a key role in helping customers achieve their targeted business outcomes in their digital transformation journey.

You will be responsible for driving adoption and consumption of their as a service (aaS) GreenLake solutions in the Nordics cluster (Norway, Denmark, Finland) and you will address a mix of companies (SMB and large accounts). You’ll be on a mission in guiding customers to unlock the full value of their aaS solution, enabling users to achieve faster time to adoption & value realization, and identify expansion opportunities to grow HPE portfolio footprint within the account.

In collaboration with Sales, you will be hunting for new customers and/or new business opportunities to make sure the customer journey is taken care of at the start of the infinite loop.

You’ll need to have a good understanding of the big picture and the commitment to communicate at the highest leadership levels with HPE’s key customers and partners.

As a Customer Success Manager, you’ll need to be a natural relationship builder, capable of earning respect both inside and outside of HPE. You’ll be expected to quickly become a trusted partner and advisor for customers and be their champion within HPE. As part of a global and diverse team, you’ll need to improvise both technically and in relationships while striving to contribute to the development of the team.

Primary job responsibilities:

• Serve as a trusted advisor for the customer across Nordic countries on HPE’s aaS offerings and being hyper-focused on driving consumed cloud revenue for the company

• In collaboration with Sales, hunt for new customers and/or new Business opportunities.

• Successfully onboard and help customers define and achieve their adoption success criteria by providing proactive recommendations and advice

• Engage with a business-led outcome focused mindset in amplifying value of our offerings

• Be hyper focused on driving aaS workload acceleration from pilots/MVP to production 

• Partner with Advisory and Professional services to accelerate adoption and consumption outcomes

• Apply deep expertise towards delivery/accelerate of MVP into production for customers leveraging Partners (GSIs/SIs/CSPs) as applicable

• Collaborate and interlock with customers to accelerate/unblock projects, Identify/Integrate partners in MVP delivery and production workloads

• Advocate for innovation and early adoption of cloud technologies

• Capture the capabilities of HPE’s offerings and identify gaps as related to customer use cases through a closed loop process for each step of the engagement life cycle

• Build C-level relationships with customers that result in deeper loyalty and frictionless adoption experience

• Help customers unlock the full potential of their aaS solutions by collaborating with internal teams within HPE

• Partner with HPE’s product management & engineering to develop solutions based on customer insights, as well as personal experience that guide aaS adoption & overall edge to close strategy

• Identify expansion opportunities for Sales to drive account growth

• Contribute internally within HPE, share knowledge and best practices with team members, contribute to internal projects and initiatives, and serve as a subject matter expert and mentor for specific technical or process areas

• Ensure customers are receiving consistent experience throughout the lifecycle of doing business with HPE

Your profile:

• 5+ years of experience in customer success, IT sales/account management, professional services, and/or presales technical consultant preferably within an enterprise cloud environment (Cloud Hybrid Datacenters, Azure, AWS, or GCP preferred)

• Ability to identify business opportunities, drive sales motions and close deals.

• Have a hunting mentality

• Technical ability to drive workload-led conversations in accelerating adoption/consumption outcomes with customers will be a plus - for example: SAP HANA, VM/Containers, Machine Learning, Big Data, Backup & Protection, High Performance Computing and VDI

• Ability to partner with customer to develop aaS adoption plan in accelerating projects from PoC/MVP to production 

• Ability to assess architecture design and resiliency assessment for production workloads

• Experience with enterprise implementations, DevOps environments, workload-led migrations and/or Cloud environments highly preferred

• Ability to develop and execute a success plan jointly with customers to deliver faster time to adoption and value of the offerings

• Analytical and problem-solving mindset

• Competent comprehension of enterprise architecture and strategic business drivers

• Direct experience with a variety of independent software vendors

• Ability to engage and communicate at all levels within the customer account (C-level, VP, Directors, CTOs, developers, IT admins et all)

• Proven ability to present complex ideas in an accessible and engaging way that turns into actionable, measurable plans or initiatives

• Ability to work in a team and demonstrate “we” instead of “me”, with a strong passion for exceeding customer expectations 

• Able to demonstrate strong business acumen and technical aptitude, and ability to diagnose business challenges into actionable, measurable plans or initiatives 

• Demonstrated success managing large, complex projects as well as matrix organizations, including critical customer support escalations 

• Fluent in English and preferably in Norwegian.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a technology-related discipline; computer science or engineering is a plus

• Travelling required – 40% or more, across Nordic countries.

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Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know diverse backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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