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Beekeeper
Head of Customer Success EMEA
🌎Zürich, Switzerland
1 month ago

Job Description

Have you ever wondered what tools frontline workers like manufacturing, construction or hospitality employees use to work efficiently? Remember pin boards or paper processes? That is history!

Beekeeper’s platform is the beating heart for frontline businesses, as it combines all great features to make the frontline workforce successful and engaged.

We are transforming the way frontline businesses work. Do you want to join the mission?

As the Head of Customer Success, EMEA, you will tackle new challenges and help to scale, strengthen and lead the EMEA Customer Success team. Your responsibility is to develop and lead a highly skilled team of customer success managers and ensure that our customers in Switzerland, Germany and other countries of the EMEA region achieve their expected business outcomes with Beekeeper. 

Your Responsibilities

  • Lead, inspire and develop a highly motivated team of CSMs, including hiring, coaching, motivation, professional development, and retention. Inspire and lead by example to cultivate and maintain Beekeeper culture and best practices within the team
  • Set the team up for scalable growth
  • Own forecasting, account assignments, processes, and capacity planning focusing on renewal, retention, expansion and customer satisfaction
  • Interact with customers of all levels (incl. C-level) through multiple channels (emails, chats, calls, and in-person meetings)
  • Execute on all success phases of the customer journey, including consulting on change management, leading strategy sessions, and partnering with Account Management counterparts on business reviews and renewal/expansion touch points
  • Partner with customers to understand their strategic goals, priorities, and desired business outcomes
  • Project manage customers through accomplishing a successful delivery of success plans and provide coaching and best practices to improve the adoption of Beekeeper
  • Handle customer/internal escalations and deal personally with difficult customer situations and issues. Work with the relevant teams to identify, prioritize and resolve customer issues in order to meet customer objectives and goals
  • Collaborate closely with Key Account Managers to identify expansion opportunities and growth within your customer portfolio and drive usage, adoption and value realization in order to meet or exceed adoption and net retention targets 
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Operations and feed “Product Intelligence” and “Customer Intelligence” to the product, engineering, sales and customer success teams

 

What we look for in you

  • Native German and Professional Fluency in English
  • Minimum of 5+ years of relevant work experience, thereof two or more years of B2B SaaS experience working in a leadership role in Customer Success, Account Management, Consulting or Sales in a Software context
  • Proven leadership and interpersonal skills with the ability to successfully coach, lead and develop a team (2+ years in a leadership role)
  • Willingness to roll up your sleeves and lead by example
  • Strong relationship skills, supported by strategic consulting skills and technical curiosity
  • Strong understanding of business drivers, processes and delivering solutions that meet customer's needs and expected business outcomes
  • Ability to analyze and enhance best practices, processes and procedures to improve efficiency and effectiveness of customer facing teams focusing on customer needs
  • Experience managing a Customer Success Team. Ability to drive customer success and align within complex organizational structures, building trust and communicate effectively with a broad range of stakeholders, from C-Suite Executives to Department Leads to day-to-day Beekeeper users
  • Proven effectiveness with difficult customer situations and expectation management
  • Strong project management skills both internal and external
  • Driven, process-oriented person with the ability to effectively balance competing priorities and make decisions that best support Beekeeper, the team, and the customer
  • Curious and can adapt quickly and enjoy a dynamic and ever-changing environment
  • Excellent communications skills, both in written and verbal communications, with the ability to deliver effective group presentations, group facilitation and one-on-one consultations in an inspiring manner

Bonus Points

  • Strong background in Software Consulting or Project Management
  • Experience with Salesforce CRM and/or CS Software
  • Technical understanding of APIs & integrations
  • Experience in conducting in-person or online trainings
  • Fluent in French

What we offer

  • A competitive salary.
  • A great career trajectory.
  • An amazing team with 20+ nationalities
  • Eager to learn?! We have a Personal Learning & Development Budget to help you develop all the skills you need to succeed. 
  • Phone & Home Internet reimbursement every month. 
  • 25 days of annual leave and 2 Mental Health Days, which brings you to 27 paid holidays per year.
  • Laptop for work purposes.
  • Budget for setting up your Home-Office. 
  • Pension scheme plan with 3 options to choose from
  • Maternity leave 16 weeks full pay
  • Paternity leave 4 weeks full pay
  • Oh and don’t forget about our Beekeeper Stock options!

Who we are

Beekeeper believes in the potential of every single employee. That’s why we’ve built the essential platform for frontline workers. We help organisations digitally enable their frontline, to boost productivity, quality and safety, and be more agile.

At Beekeeper, we celebrate diversity! All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity. We are committed to ensuring a smooth application process for all candidates. If you require accommodations due to a disability, please reach out to jobs@beekeeper.io, and our team will be more than happy to assist you. 

Please know that you are not required to share your nationality, age or a picture of you on the CV! We are looking forward to your application 🙂!