Sr Princ Customer Success Manager

About VERITAS

Veritas Technologies solves what no one else can. As the leader in secure multi-cloud data management, over 80,000 customers – including 91% of the Fortune 100 – rely on Veritas to help ensure the protection, recoverability, and compliance of their data.

Veritas has a reputation for reliability at scale, which delivers the resilience its customers need against the disruptions threatened by cyberattacks, like ransomware. No other vendor is able to match Veritas’ ability to execute, with support for 800+ data sources, 100+ operating systems, 1,400+ storage targets and 60+ clouds through a single, unified approach. Powered by Cloud Scale Technology, Veritas is delivering today on its strategy for Autonomous Data Management that reduces operational overhead while delivering greater value. Learn more at Veritas.com.

Veritas’ Customer Success Organization is responsible for ensuring that Veritas’ customers are successfully exceeding the value of their investment in Veritas solutions and coordinating the company focus on the end-to-end customer relationship. The team includes Customer Success Management, Business Critical Services, Global Customer Support, Global Technical Enablement, and Licensing Services.

The exponential growth of data and the resources needed to manage it is one of the most pressing issues facing business today. And it’s not just the amount of data. It’s where it lives and how it travels between private clouds, public clouds and back to on premises. In these increasingly complex IT environments, it’s important to focus on what’s constant: the data.

Every one of our information management solutions – from business continuity to back up and recovery to software defined storage and information governance – is designed around the principle that information is more important than infrastructure.

Business Critical Services (BCS) organization provides proactive services and enhanced support to our premier customers. This level of service is designed for multinational enterprises that require uninterrupted availability to data and applications on a 24x7x365 basis. Any disturbance in productivity experienced by a Business Critical customer results in immediate and measurable consequences. The BCS infrastructure allows these enterprises to experience the full availability of data and systems their business practices demand.

The BCS team, part of the Global Customer Success Organization, is responsible for delivery of the highest level of service and support available to End User customers.

The organization provides multiple proactive features and benefits for our premium customers today and strives to develop additional services for the future. The BCS organization works consistently to impart further value to this pivotal group of customers and maximize customer satisfaction.

The Business Critical Account Manager (BCAM) is a key position within the Business Critical Services (BCS) organization. The BCAM is responsible for ensuring our customers receive the highest level of technical support resulting in positive support experiences and a realized return on their investment in our products and services. The BCAM serves as the customer’s primary contact for delivery of our BCS services and is available to their assigned BCS customers 24/7/365. The BCAM is extension of the account team (Sales Account Manager and Systems Engineer) and is accountable for ensuring successful delivery of our defined proactive and reactive services as well as driving critical issue escalations.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with assigned customers (e. g., technical, management and executive), ensuring positive support experiences and a realized return on their products and services investment
• Deliver customer success services to our BCS customers located in the Gulf region
• Drive product adoption and enable customers to achieve their goals/outcomes through the effective use of our technology and services
• Understand and articulate customers business (e. g., business objectives and business challenges) and the impact products and services have on their business
• Maintain customer satisfaction to the highest levels by driving expedited resolution for critical issues and technical escalations
• Develop and manage partnering relationships with personnel in all functional areas
• Anticipate and react to BCS service delivery concerns within assigned customers
• Engage and coordinate internal and external resources as needed for driving expedited critical issue resolution
• Partner with BCS teammates in the development and delivery of customer facing value deliverables
• Create and maintain customer account plan, including delivered value, planned goals and initiatives as well as customer contacts, product information, case totals, etc.
• Coordinate and lead business review meetings, summarizing customer’s support trending, high level project updates, high impact incidents, and product end-of-support life management
• Drive BCS contract renewals and identify potential product and service upsell opportunities
• Evangelize BCS products and services and promote product adoption and product expansion
• Document customer success stories and customer references
• Facilitate distribution of information provided by Arctera Customer Care organization and other internal partners

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• Proven years experience within the information technology industry with some experience in the software industry
• Strong years large account management experience (Fortune 500, Global 2000) or equivalent
• Strong years of experience within Technical Support/Field Services/ Sales organizations
• Proven success interfacing at all level levels within large organizations, including technical, management and executive
• Proven problem analysis and solving skills
• Proven success developing and delivering oral and written communications
• Outstanding organizational skills
• Excellent customer presentation skills
• Experienced success planning and driving projects to completion and teaming across multiple organizations as needed
• Proven relationship building skills and ability to build confidence at a senior level
• Accountable for decisions and commitments, works within the governance requirements
• Proven success delivering support service resulting in positive experiences and realized ROI
• Knowledge of Information Management products and services preferred
• Assigned customers will primarily be in Saudi, Qatar, Kuwait and UAE – flexibility on work week is expected
• Accustomed to working in an on-call 24x7 role
• Ability to work structured and independently in a remote managed position
• Experience with delivery of Premium Services in IT industry will be preferred
• Fluent in English. Arabic and other languages at business level is preferred