Customer Success Executive, CSS Customer Success Mgmt

Oracle’s Customer Success Organization is in the midst of a customer-centric transformation. We’re helping our clients around the globe redefine customer experience, unifying the front, middle, and back office for a 360-degree view of the customer. As a Customer Success Executive, you will leverage deep business, industry, and product knowledge to partner with Oracle Cloud customers and guide them through their cloud lifecycle to accelerate business value and return from their investment. Customer Success Executives drive maximum adoption of Oracle solutions and identify/drive product renewal and expansion opportunities via high value relationships with customers. 

Customer Success Executives specialize across lines of businesses, cross-functional competencies, and/or industries. They align at executive and key business stakeholder levels, building and fostering strong relationships to help customers progress on their customer journey. 

The ideal Customer Success Executive will possess Oracle Cloud solution knowledge and skills that enable them to be a problem solver always looking for innovative approaches and solutions. You enjoy rolling up your sleeves and taking on challenges with a hands-on approach. You have a passion for customer success across customers lifecycle (onboarding, implementation, post go-live, product adoption and value realization) building relationships that blossom into trusted partnerships. You know the key to delivering exceptional customer experiences lies in your ability to apply industry knowledge, providing relevant and dynamic insights to each client you serve. Entrepreneurial-minded with sound judgment and can navigate complexity. You are a highly collaborative teammate who can navigate different personalities, work well with others, and share lessons learned and knowledge gained from project experience. You take ownership of your success as well as those around you, modeling integrity and accountability with colleagues and customers. You excel in a fast-paced environment, working as a customer’s internal advocate to remove obstacles that may impede a customer’s experience with Oracle. 

Customer Success Executives align customer goals, KPIs, and business objectives with Oracle’s product functionality and strategy to help drive adoption and expand product usage. 

Career Level – IC5

• Act as the main point of contact for your customers. Building and fostering relationships with key customer stakeholders (executives, business & IT leaders, influencers, and decision-makers) to solidify our partnership and commitment.
• Drive maximum adoption of Oracle solutions and identify/drive product renewal and expansion opportunities via high value relationships with customers.
• Demonstrate drive, accountability, and resourcefulness to effectively manage an assigned book of business in a fast-paced and somewhat ambiguous environment ensuring that deliverables, results and deadlines are achieved.
• Have a holistic overview of a portfolio of specific/key projects within a specific client to develop knowledge and a clear understanding of customer plans, goals, and desired outcomes of their Oracle Cloud solution investment.
• Leverage Oracle’s Customer Success methodology to partner with customer stakeholders to understand their goals/KPIs, assess their capabilities and provide recommendations to help them accelerate the achievement of their business and technology objectives.
• Drive customer implementation towards success with healthy partner interaction and work with Alliances and Channels making sure the involved partners are focusing on customer success; raise in a timely manner when there is any deviation.
• Proactively, hands-on and customer-facing to identify risks and work with the account team to get projects on the right track and reacting promptly and effectively to early warning signs within this portfolio.
• Effectively collaborate, influence, and take the lead in cross-functional engagements within Oracle. Be the internal advocate for the customer across the organization including Global Customer Success Services, Sales, Support, and Product Development while expertly prioritizing, driving ownership, and delivering desired outcomes for your customers.
• Understand the organizational structure of the customer, identifying the areas that present deep strategic partnership opportunities. Build and grow multiple relationships across a customer’s organization, and their implementation partners.
• Demonstrate Oracle product knowledge by applying platform features and functions to customer business priorities and roadmap in relation to the customers goals and objectives.
• Guide a customer on organizational strategy, governance and change management best practices based on customer needs.
• Build greater advocacy and reference-ability of your customers.
• When appropriate, identify additional Oracle services, expansion opportunities, and advisory experts needed to drive incremental success.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills

• Oracle Cloud (SaaS) functional and/or technical expertise. Strong knowledge of Oracle Cloud products, features, capabilities, and best use is highly desired.
• 10+ years of customer-facing experience as a business practitioner and communicator.
• 5+ years of proven experience in Oracle ERP SaaS Implementations.
• Proven ability to utilize a cloud lifecycle methodology focused on reviewing implementation project plans, governance structure, team composition and other project related artifacts to assess risk and provide best practice guidance (PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification or similar highly desired)
• Bachelor’s degree in Business or other related degree and/or equivalent years of experience.
• Being a self-starting, entrepreneurial, self-managing. Ability to work effectively with and through a matrix and a virtual organization, requiring management through influencing, based upon trust and leadership skills.
• Proven track record of successfully establishing trustful relationships with senior leadership and executive-level key stakeholders within the Oracle cross LOB organization and customers and partners outside the Oracle organization.
• In-depth knowledge in one or more lines of businesses, cross-functional competencies, or industry related experience.
• Strong presentation skills (web, phone and onsite) including effectively communicating insights and data informed points of view to customers, implementation partners, and internal cross-functional resources.
• Strong consulting skills and proven results working as a trusted advisor to drive business value for customers.
• Strong executive communication and presence skills to drive effective and influencing conversations at the executive-level; facilitate difficult discussions and adept at handling objections bringing multiple internal resources and customers to common understanding and agreement.
• A good understanding of enterprise architecture principles is strongly preferred
• Ability to quickly grasp and distinctly explain technological and business concepts

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from $50.48 to $95.91 per hour; from: $105,000 to $199,500 per annum. May be eligible for equity. Eligible for commission with an estimated pay mix of 60/40 – 90/10.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle’s differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion

2. Short term disability and long term disability

3. Life insurance and AD&D

4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)

5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.

9. 11 paid holidays

10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.

11. Paid parental leave

12. Adoption assistance

13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan

14. Financial planning and group legal

15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

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