Senior Client Success Manager

The Senior Client Success Manager (SCSM) brings a wealth of marketing and fundraising expertise to a key segment of Blackbaud customers. The SCSM is responsible for bringing Blackbaud's best ideas, innovations, and capabilities to customers and driving greater business value.

It is the SCSM's responsibility to drive customer adoption and success across a segment of our customer base after the sale. Key to this role is being able to articulate value as well as inspire and sell the benefit of partnership.  As a trusted marketing and fundraising advisor and coach, the client success manager determines how an event fundraising program can be effectively applied to support achievement of a client’s strategic business goals.   The SCSM should possess strong technology acumen, expertise in mapping business process goals to system capabilities, as well as strong account management expertise.

The SCSM will be responsible for driving adoption and utilization across our small to mid-size customer base.  The SCSM will be required to maintain strong working relationships with other Blackbaud customer facing personnel in the Sales, Marketing and Product Management teams.

Frequent travel for selected activities will be required including travel to: customer locations, local user groups, user conferences, and marketing events. Occasional travel to national events including the Blackbaud annual user conference and corporate meetings is also required.

Responsibilities:

·        Establish and oversee the customer's experience after go-live, focusing on the bridge between implementation and ongoing support of best practices that continually drive incremental value and return on the customer's investment.

·        Serve as a customer advocate in driving industry best practices and the evolution of Blackbaud product and platform functionality integral to the customer's success.

·        Facilitate the development of a vertical industry community and a similar size community of like Blackbaud customers, routinely sharing best practices and leveraging lessons learned.

·        Ensure that all customers derive maximum value from their investment in Sphere.

·        Identify and grow opportunities within territory and collaborate with sales teams to ensure growth attainment.

·        Possess a comprehensive understanding of the Blackbaud products, specifically our Friends asking Friends offering.

·        Understand customer requirements, level of adoption of the Blackbaud service and assess the risk in renewing the current contract.

·        Issue resolution; identification and development of plan to resolve product issues. 

·        Derive and disseminate marketing and fundraising best practices that help drive customer adoption of Blackbaud services.

·        Serve as a marketing and communications coach and trusted advisor of mid to large sized Blackbaud customers.

·        Participate in field marketing events within region.

·        Minimum of 8 years relevant work experience with at least 1 year experience in a management consulting firm preferred

·        Deep experience in one or more vertical industries within the Not For Profit community

·        Deep marketing and fundraising  experience

·        Proven effectiveness at leading and facilitating change management

·        Proven experience in managing large, complex project implementations

·        Excellent written and oral communication skills

·        Possess strong presentation skills and credibility with C-level executives

·        Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills

·        BA/BS degree

 To submit your resume for consideration, please click on the following link to apply: http://blackbaud.submit4jobs.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=75022.viewjobdetail&CID=75022&JID=116392&BUID=1876