This role will likely be based in Thailand

The Success Manager leverages deep business, industry and product knowledge to partner with customers and guide them to accelerate business value and return from their investment with Salesforce. They are aligned at key stakeholder level, building and fostering strong relationships to help customers progress on their digital journey. Success Managers are working directly with customers that can vary in their market segment, size, solution complexity and life cycle, depending on the customers needs.

The ideal Success Manager will possess a background in cloud technology, strong communication and executive engagement skills and fluency in Thai language and business culture. Experience in financial services is a plus.

 Responsibilities:

• Leverage our Customer Success Methodology and partner with customers stakeholders to understand their goals, assess their capabilities and provide recommendations to help them accelerate achievement of their business and technology objectives

• Develop an understanding and knowledge of customer’s Salesforce implementation and evangelize the capabilities of Salesforce across all of our Clouds

• Guide a customer on org strategy, governance, business value and change management best practices based on customer needs

• Can demonstrate hands-on Salesforce product knowledge by applying platform features and functions to customer business priorities and roadmap

• Proactively identify risks to the customer achieving their stated business goals and work with the account team to build a risk mitigation plan

• Produce and execute a comprehensive success path showing the current state, target future state with timeline aligned to the customer’s business goals and objectives

• Deliver business value and innovation to a customer’s business by understanding our customers’ key business challenges and potential for growth

• Build and foster executive-level relationships with the customer’s IT and business executive leadership, sponsors and decision makers to solidify our partnership and commitment to the customer business and IT sponsors & stakeholders

• Working collaboratively with the account team and Salesforce Execs, effectively network within accounts from the Executive-Level down, in order to help customers achieve their objectives

• When appropriate, recommend additional Salesforce services and advisory experts needed to drive success

• Proactively communicates technical product changes, degradations, outages, end of life and other relevant updates

 Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

• Experienced professional with 10-12 years relevant industry expertise. 

• In-depth knowledge in one or more line of businesses (LoB) - a specific cloud or industry. Experience in financial services and CRM are plus points.

• Strong consulting skills and proven results working as a Trusted Advisor to drive business value for customers

• Ability to drive effective and influencing conversations at the C-level; facilitate difficult discussions and adept at handling objections

• Strong knowledge of Salesforce product and platform features, capabilities, and best use is highly desired

• Able to articulate the importance and value of Governance to Business and IT executives

• Good understanding of enterprise architecture principles strongly preferred

• Ability to quickly grasp and distinctly explain technological and business concepts

• Since this role will cover the broader ASEAN region, fluency in local languages like Thai / Vietnamese etc. will be advantageous.