POSITION SUMMARY
Aktana is looking for a talented Customer Success Manager (or
Director) who is excited about working in a start-up and will thrive in a
fun and challenging environment. The Customer Success Director will
provide strategic guidance and apply best practices to Aktana customers
in Europe using its suite of innovative products and solutions. In
addition, and in collaboration with the leadership team, the candidate
will contribute to identifying areas for improvements (process, tools,
products) through the voice of the customer. The Director will also
manage a growing team of analysts and managers supporting accounts.
The Customer Success Director is not your average Relationship
Manager – think of him/her more as a strategic consultant who excels in
identifying key areas of improvement and possesses the maturity and the
right soft skills to be able to drive change.
To be considered, successful candidates should have Veeva or salesforce.com CRM (consulting) experience
LOCATION
Barcelona, Spain
REPORT TO
VP of Customer Success, Europe
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Manage overall client relationship at the program level, working
with the counterpart on the client to understand all project work,
impacts on various projects on one another
- Act as a consultant to clients regarding best practices, ways to
leverage Aktana’s platform to meet business needs and engaging with
teams to understand their brand strategy. Provide relevant context
across other Aktana projects, external perspective on industry trends,
data assets and how to leverage them within the scope of projects and
proactively suggest use cases to meet brand goals
- Collaborate with internal product teams to not only deeply
understand new offerings but provide insight on the roadmap and new
offerings needed to support client needs.
- Proactively work with CS teams to understand the impact to client
configuration of new features and suggest updates to leverage new
capabilities
- Lead client requirements sessions, capturing the relevant logic
conditions, relevant information for both factor and non-factor level
inputs
- Oversee the day to day project plan with client PM and internal PM
staff; work with PM to build out the project plan and establish key
milestones and estimated work effort
- Build relationships with key client team members, train new members on Aktana process, capabilities, use cases and impact
- Identify upsell opportunities and work with sales team to develop
SOWs, project plans, etc, to support new business within existing
customers
- Become an internal expert on how to use and train other team members
on Aktana’s CS requirements sessions and related processes, Aktana’s
capabilities, roadmap and use cases
- Work with internal teams, including deployment services, QA, and
other Customer Success members to migrate test configurations to PROD
environments
- Become expert on all Aktana products and services and where each can
be deployed for delivering value to clients and maintaining high NPS
scores through review of internal tools, reporting, regular client
check-ins, etc.
- Engage with customer success engineers to ensure CRM environments
and data feeds are configured accurately and all aspects of the platform
are set-up per best practices
REQUIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCES
- +15 years of experience within pharmaceutical/life science vertical (Senior level)
- Experience with marketing teams, pharma data knowledge
- Consulting experience highly desired
- +5 years of experience in managing and growing a team of experts
- Experience with Account Management, Business Development
- Advanced level English – any other main European language a plus, especially French, Italian and/or German
- MBA preferred
- Comfortable with brand strategy, digital marketing, broad industry viewpoints
ABOUT AKTANA
Committed to customer success and innovation, Aktana is at the
forefront of transforming how life sciences companies share information
with healthcare providers (HCPs). Our proprietary platform harnesses
machine learning algorithms to enable marketing and sales teams to
seamlessly coordinate and optimize multichannel engagement with HCPs.
Today 10 of the top 20 global biopharmaceutical companies are using
Aktana to go to market smarter.
Aktana is growing fast and looking for exceptional talent to join our
team. We value hard work, transparency, and collaboration – and we like
to have fun too! Headquartered in San Francisco, we have offices around
the world, including Philadelphia, New York, London, Barcelona, Tokyo,
Osaka, and Shanghai.
Please note that we only
consider candidates who are legally eligible to work in Spain or
mainland Europe. Eventual relocation and/or working permit obtention
costs are NOT covered.