Bring your career and talents to CDW, where you can have a greater impact, be inspired and excited about your job and future. We are an innovative, Fortune 500 leader driving meaningful technological change for customers in virtually every industry. This is an exceptional opportunity to join some of the brightest, best and most collaborative minds working in customer relations today.

The Customer Success Manager (CSM) Cisco role focuses on post-sale solution adoption and ongoing customer satisfaction. This role is responsible for working with sales, solutions, services, and channel teams to plan and organize customer success strategies. The incumbent has strong customer management and business consultancy skills and is passionate about proactively engaging with their customers and expanding their use cases.

The CSM develops and maintains strategic relationships with Sales & Services Management of the customers they support and is seen as a trusted advisor to grow business. The CSM is also expected to be a subject matter expert in multiple families of Cisco solutions. The incumbent in this role operates independently using standard approaches, existing tools, templates, and resources; shares knowledge and information that may benefit the team.

What you will do:

Establish a trusted/strategic advisor relationship with each customer and drive the continued value of our solutions.
Work with clients to establish critical goals, or other key performance indicators and aid the customer in achieving their goals.
Engage with customer executives and other influential stakeholders to identify, define, track and measure the overall impact of your aligned solutions to an organization.
Drive adoption and consumption for Cisco services through various programs
Build robust Cisco solutions based on competitive and market understanding with CDW services partners
Be a recognized expert and thought leader in the practical application of Cisco solutions
Develop and deliver "success plans" to key customers identifying stakeholders, milestones, metrics, and risks
Ensures customer creates value through defining and achieving business outcomes
Demonstrates advanced insights and understanding of customers business/industry
Escalate critical customer issues and ensure escalation ownership with internal resources
Act as Voice of the Customer and provide feedback to Services, Sales, Operations and Channel teams
Drive customer readiness for solutions and services as well as updates, ensuring they are aware of and prepared for potential impacts
Partner with the Sales organization in select competitive sales cycles to drive revenue opportunities in existing accounts
Ability to orchestrate and gain strong buy-in with multiple external (e.g. Channel Partner) and internal teams (Account Manager, Field Solution Architect, Specialists) and be highly connected to solution Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) throughout the customer's lifecycle
Measure and report the impact of the offerings currently in place, so that the customer and CDW have a common understanding of the value they are receiving toward achieving their expected outcomes
Identify, define and drive renewals, phased upsell and cross-sell opportunities from account base

What you need to succeed:
Must-Have:

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
2+ years of technical pre-sales or technical architecting experience
Experience in customer success role or equivalent experience increasing customer satisfaction, adoption, and retention
Experience with Cisco solutions
Strong interpersonal and presentation skills, including consulting skills
Impeccable written and verbal communication skills
Strong problem-solving skills, detail-oriented and analytical
Must be able to communicate effectively and in a constructive manner with management, peers and coworkers

Nice-to-Have:

Experience with professional services discussions and delivery to customers of all sizes
Proven ability to drive continuous value of the solution
Strong team player but still a self-starter
Passion for learning and teaching others

Who we are:
CDW is a leading technology solutions provider to business, government, education and healthcare organizations in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Our fingerprints can be found on technology in workplaces of more than 250,000 companies; from fresh-faced startups to international conglomerates. With the breadth of products and services we offer, there is no request too big or too small.

What you can expect from us: Culture, coworkers, careers.
CDW is not only the People Who Get IT, but the People who get People. Our relationships are fueled by our deep expertise and grounded in the CDW Way. Our empowering leadership makes things happen and inspires their teams to do the same. From the teammates beside us to the leaders who guide us, we move forward together. At CDW, you'll work with people who inspire you. People with positive, success-driven attitudes who you will learn from and forge strong relationships with. Bring your best true self-and your best ideas-to CDW. Because diverse perspectives bring forth better problem solving-and better solutions for our customers on a rapidly evolving technology landscape.

The well-being of our employees is essential to us. CDW offers a comprehensive benefits package, which includes health, dental and vision coverage, coworker stock purchase program, paid vacation time and sick days, RRSP/DPSP and DPSP match, tuition reimbursement, coworker discounts and other generous perks.