I. Job Purpose and Core Tasks
The Customer Success Manager plays a critical role in: 1) managing overall growth, effectiveness, and profitability of Operation Room installation projects within their respective regions 2) delivering world class customer service. The Customer Success Manager reports to the Customer Success Regional or National Manager.
The Customer Success Manager will play the lead regional role in ensuring timely and accurate Operating Room installations, with hyper focus on customer success and satisfaction. Additionally, the Customer Success Manager will work to maintain continuous horizontal alignment with the service and deployments verticals; together ensuring a best in class experience.
Excellence in Performance Support:
Sales / Sales-Mkt Support
- Support the pre-sales process to ensure sales success and effective alignment of customer deliverables
- Collaborate horizontally with regular documented frequency
- Expert competency in the intricacies of how the ENTIRE integration product portfolio integrates and functions
- Understand the basics of hospital construction
- Expert competency in cable management and cable termination
- Plan, oversee, and lead capital installation projects through to completion under corporate SLAs.
On-time,
On-budget, and Profitable Installations
- Plan and deliver all product installations on-time and within profitability guidelines; while delivering an exceptional customer experience
- Ensure customers experience a best in class installation, which includes best in class documented communication
- Ensure customers understand, utilize, and leverage products purchased brining to life the VALUE of their installation, post deployment responsibility in creating customers for life
- Sales / Sales-Mkt Support
Engage horizontally in collaboration with sales, including proposal development and proper estimating, as needed
Collaborate monthly with sales to ensure alignment on all customer deliverables to prevent negative GP impact
Support other business development needs for sales and marketing as needed by management
Complete all trainings as assigned through the OR1 training department
Demonstrate technical competencies through successful installs, with minimal service tickets during the warranty period
Demonstrate technical competencies by having low change orders per project, meet national standard
Engage in outside training opportunities that evolve technical expertise
- Project Management
- Lead project planning sessions
- Manage project progress
- Ensure projects meet deadlines
- Manage relationships with clients and stakeholders
- Oversee all incoming and outgoing project documentation
- Design risk mitigation plan for the project
- Deliver projects on time and within budget
- Meet National KPI standards for Customer Success
- Customer Satisfaction
- Monitors, collects, and reports on customer feedback post installation for process improvement opportunities
- Proactively solicit customer feedback, positive and negative and work to mitigate all negative feedback
- Ensure KARL STORZ maintains it’s #1 ranking in Customer Satisfaction
Turn customers into raving fans
Deliver customer training in a timely and comprehensive manner
Confirm customer product utilization post-install. Document utilization
Summary KPIs
This position will be measured on the following Key Performance Indicators (KPIs):
- Manage to meet or exceed assigned goals for revenue. Assigned annually
- Support achievement of overall gross margin targets >32% collectively within designated region
- Meet national standards for change orders
Operational Process Improvement Metrics
- Meet national KPI standards for regional projects
- KPIs:
- KPIs to be Reported on Quarterly: Number of Slides, Timeliness of Site Walk Through, Timeliness of Scrub, Timeliness of Horizontal Communication, Timeliness and Robustness of Customer Communication
- Documented monthly horizontal communication
- Ensure customer feedback post every install is reported through national system
- Successful sign-off by the customer post install training
- Meet the national standard for customer follow-up
- Manage the number of service tickets
II. Minimum Knowledge, Education, and Skill Requirements
Required
Minimum years of relevant work experience:
A minimum of 3-5 years in consulting, project delivery, or project management
A minimum of 5-7 years in role requiring technical acumen in AV or IP
Field based project and program level management experience
Comfort in ambiguous or high stress situations
Track record of working collaboratively in a matrix-ed environment
Track record in project / process improvement
Knowledge and experience in the medical device and/or healthcare marketplace preferred
Minimum education, certifications and/or credentials: A Bachelor's degree in Construction Engineering, Construction Management, Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering or related degree is required or 5 years of experience with the preferred hard skills
Minimum soft skill requirements:
Demonstrated outstanding personal leadership
Demonstrated pattern of intellectual curiosity
Creativity in the development of new approaches to improving the customer experience
A true team player with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work with executives both within the company, its partners, and its clients
A sense of urgency and impatience with the status quo
Excellent communication and organizational skills, proven
Highest standards of ethical behavior
Excellent at multitasking
Willingness to travel 80%
Preferred hard skill requirements:
Holistic understanding of Cable Terminations and handling: ability to perform cable pull, Solder, Crimp, Compression, and Punch-Down connections for audio, video, network, control, and power devices
Holistic understanding of Cable Media: ability to distinguish Coax, Mini-Hi- Res, Copper, Multi-Conductor, CAT-5/6, and Fiber Optic Cabling
Advanced knowledge in control systems, power amplifiers, digital signal processors, video matrix switchers, video scalers, PC interfaces, computer controls, and digital video recorders
III. Essential Function
Has contact with:
- Inside and outside the company staff
Physical requirement/Demands:
- Work in and around hospital personnel, sensitive medical equipment, and patients.
IV. Core Requirements
Degree of accountability: High
Degree of decision making: Medium
Financial/Budgetary: no
Safety: This is a safety sensitive job.
Quality: Adhere to KSEA OR1 Quality Requirements
Supervision: no
Authority to Sign (not applicable for North America):
Travel: Good driving record Up to 50% travel during the year throughout the US, Canada and Mexico to customer sites that include, but are not limited to: hospitals, operating rooms, laboratories, and surgery centers.
Note for U.S. only: Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.
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