Splunk Hiring for Customer Success Manager – Middle East / KSA Job at Dubai Full Time

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Role:

Are you passionate about customer success and big data? Are you a true hybrid professional with customer acumen and a proven technical foundation? Then come be a member of Splunk Customer Success, providing mentorship, planning and oversight while demonstrating adoption and technical best practices.

The Customer Success Manager (CSM) Covering Middle East / Saudia Arabia is the key partner helping our valued customers achieve their strategic objectives and maximum value from their investment in Splunk. Additionally, the CSM serves as the liaison between the customer and the Splunk ecosystem, streamlining partnership with Product Management, Engineering, Professional Services, Education, and others.

Responsibilities: I Want To and Can Do That!

• Orchestrate overall relationships with assigned clients, which will include: Growing adoption, ensuring retention, and happiness.

• Work with clients to build Customer Success Plans, establishing critical goals, to aid the customer in achieving their business objectives.

• Measure and monitor customer’s achievement of critical and key performance indicators, reporting both internally to Splunk Account team and externally to Customer Sponsors and Executives.

• Establish regular cadence (Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly) with each assigned client, to review executive dashboards, and program status.

• Cement yourself as a trusted/strategic advisor with customers and drive continued value of our products and services.

• Work closely with the Splunk Account Team (Account Manager, SE, PS and EDU) to find opportunities for new usage of Splunk across organizational functions.

• Work to identify and/or develop upsell opportunities.

• Advocate customer needs/issues cross-departmentally and program-manage customer concerns.

• Assist and provide expert deployment, operational standard methodologies and establish a Splunk Center of Excellence.

• Assist in workshops to help customers demonstrate the full value of Splunk solutions and lead periodic partner meetings.

• Provide insight with respect to the availability and applicability of new products and features.

• Support Professional Services with scoping, and selling follow-on and new service opportunities.

• Support Education Services in identifying and recommending staff training opportunities.

• Identify in cooperation with the Account team the key success criteria for Splunk deployment and drive customer happiness.

• Act as the Splunk liaison for Splunk technical inquiries, issues or escalations. This will include working with Splunk Support, Product Management (i.e. roadmaps), or others as needed.

• Maintain current functional and technical knowledge of the Splunk platform and future products.

Requirements: I’ve already done that or have that!

• Extensive experience in the Middle East / Gulf (Saudia Arabia region preferable) in a post-sales Customer Success role, either as an individual contributor or Team Leader with a recognised SaaS vendor in the Middle East.

• Since this role is essential to Splunk’s customer success initiative, you will have a rich history of growing customer happiness, adoption, and retention.

• Confirmed ability to drive continuous product value.

• Experience developing product use-cases with customers.

• Since this role is customer-facing, you will possess exceptional verbal, written, social, presentation, and interpersonal skills.

• Thrives in a multi-tasking environment and can adjust priorities on-the-fly while still having the ability to focus on details and be analytical.

• Good technical and problem-solving skills coupled with the ability to provide a quick resolution to problems.

• Prior experience conducting workshops to customers and discussing pros and cons of implementing various technologies and business value.

• You have played in the Enterprise and/or cloud software space.

• Experience navigating and steering customer engagements to completion with a high level of customer happiness.

• You will be a strong teammate, but still a self-starter.

• Willingness to travel. Since travel is based on customer and business needs there may be more or less travel depending on the location of customers.

• Office location is Dubai, UAE. We like you to work from the office regularly to team with our sales professionals. and cover Kingdom of Saudia

We value diversity at our company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.