The Senior Customer Success Manager will manage multiple clients, ensuring they derive maximum value from SPINS while maintaining customer retention and growth. They will educate clients on products and solutions, handle escalations, and communicate client feedback to internal teams.
Who We Are
For over 20 years, SPINS has been a leader in recognizing the transformative power of data in retail. We offer our clients cutting-edge tools to attract attention from a fast-growing segment within the Health & Wellness industry, the values-based consumer. Nearly half of shoppers prioritize products that emphasize wellness, social responsibility, and sustainable practices. SPINS retail consumer insights, analytics, and consulting services give our clients a competitive advantage to increase their share of this growing market. Our data is the most comprehensive and accurate in the industry, allowing clients to power AI models and machine learning algorithms that help them better understand and meet their customers' needs. At SPINS, behind all of our impressive data is our real differentiator, our people. We pride ourselves on our collaborative, flexible, and communicative culture that puts people at the center of everything we do.
Senior Customer Success Manager
Summary
The Senior Customer Success Manager will manage relationships and accounts with key business-to-business (B2B) customers. This role involves ensuring customer satisfaction, promoting retention, and driving revenue growth within the assigned accounts. This position works with clients and internal teams across SPINS to educate, engage, and empower clients to achieve their strategic objectives. This individual will be working directly with management at our client companies to understand their opportunities and develop growth solutions and strategies to capture them. This individual contributor role reports to the Director, Customer Success.
Job Duties & Responsibilities
Requirements
- You will be an advisor to your clients; gain a deep understanding of their business, challenges, needs and goals to help them derive maximum value from their investment with SPINS; Including development and maintenance of strong relationships within the client company beyond just the main point of contact and users of tools
- Act as a SPINS product expert using this knowledge to deliver the value of our data, tools, and solutions to our clients
- Form a strong business alliance with clients to understand client goals and objectives and quickly deliver solutions in support of them with minimal guidance
- Manage proactive communication and client touch points including change management from a data and product perspective
- Champion the customer journey, including negotiating complex contract renewals to maximize net retention, mitigate risk, and ensure client satisfaction
- Drive client change management and platform migrations by guiding customers through the transition to new workflows, ensuring strong adoption, customer satisfaction, and minimal operational disruption.
- Develop strategies to expand engagement, enable adoption and mitigate churn to drive long-term account growth
- Anticipate client needs and manage client escalations that are raised to you from your partners and the client
- Cultivate strong client champions and advocates through building and maintaining strong, long-lasting client relationships with various stakeholders within the organization
- Identify new opportunities for expansion within the current client set of services.
- Ensure contracts are accurately documented, managed, and renewed in a timely manner
Requirements
Education & Experience
The following is strongly preferred:
- BA/BS degree in Business Administration or related quantitative field of study
- 5+ years of experience in customer-facing success, account management, or strategic consulting role; experience in enterprise account management or a related role, preferably in the B2B sector
- Excellent ability to communicate, present, and influence credibly and effectively at all levels of the organization, including executive and C-level
- Strong oral and written communication skills including delivering of presentations and proposals
- Ability to engage with clients at all levels - from Analyst to C-Suite
- Ability to listen hard, discover client goals, and identify relevant solutions
- Ability to understand the client mindset and offer solutions
- Technical aptitude, analytical mindset and intermediate or higher experience with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
- Ability to prioritize and multitask while maintaining diplomacy, tact, and poise under pressure when working through client issues
- Strong communication skills and experience building working relationships both internally and externally to facilitate a flawless client experience
- Experience in owning and proving renewal excellence of subscription-based services is a requirement including working on complex RFPs
- Demonstrated understanding of the industry, market trends, and competitive landscape.
- CPG, Retail, or natural/specialty industry is a requirement
The following is strongly preferred:
- Familiarity of contract management systems including DocuSign, Salesforce and or other CPQ management tooling is preferred
- Experience working with syndicated data (preferred SPINS, The Nielsen Co., IRI and/or data in a Consumer-Packaged Goods manufacturing setting) is a plus
Salary Range: $95,000 - $105,000 + 20% variable
Note: Applicants must be authorized to work for any US employer. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
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What SPINS Offers
We have enjoyed tremendous growth over the years and, as a leader in a fast-growing industry, we have no plans to slow down! While all that growth brings excitement, it is also an opportunity for SPINS to show it values the health and wellness of its team members.
- We embrace hybrid work options so that you have the flexibility to create a work/life balance that actually works!
- Each employee is allotted paid time to use to volunteer with an organization of their choice and charitable donations are matched.
- Semi-annual company-wide employee survey that is used to shape company programs, perks, and culture.
The SPINS Way
- Direct – We communicate with clarity, honesty and respect in all situations and embrace opportunities to provide solution-oriented feedback.
- Determined – We are committed to overcoming all obstacles to achieve results. We adapt to change, seek opportunities to learn and rapidly translate that learning into action.
- Passionate – We go above and beyond to help our partners achieve their goals. We challenge assumptions and are comfortable forging new paths.
- Collaborative – We leave our egos at the door, believing that working together we will produce an outcome that’s greater than each individual contribution.
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Top Skills
Docusign
Excel
Microsoft Powerpoint
Salesforce
SPINS Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
222 W. Hubbard Street, Suite 300, Chicago, IL, United States, 60654
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