Customer Success Manager (USA Remote)

Company Description

When you join Turnitin, you'll be welcomed into a company that is a recognized innovator in the global education space. For more than 20 years, Turnitin has partnered with educational institutions to promote honesty, consistency, and fairness across all subject areas and assessment types. Over 16,000 academic institutions, publishers, and corporations use our services: Gradescope by Turnitin, iThenticate, Turnitin Feedback Studio, Turnitin Originality, Turnitin Similarity, ExamSoft, Ouriginal and ProctorExam.

Turnitin has offices in the United States, Australia, India, Indonesia, Germany, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Sweden, Ukraine, the United Kingdom. Our diverse community of colleagues are all unified by a shared desire to make a difference in education. Come join us, and let's make change together.

Job Description

Engages with a group of complex customers following the onboarding and implementation stage and handles contract renewal activity, engages with significant problems and queries as an escalation point from the tech support team (handles more complex and broader problems), builds enduring relationships in the account with decision makers with whom they work to scale the account. Mentors and supports other team members. Responsible for ensuring customers get the maximum value from our solutions, retaining customers and growing usage and adoption (up-sells).

Responsibilities

• Manage the relationship for a portfolio of accounts – ensuring customer success and satisfaction as required, resolving concerns and driving for proactive positive outcomes - to boost satisfaction, increase adoption, and ensure retention.
• Partners closely with customers to understand their business needs and objectives and to sell the value of Tii products against their needs. Gives robust expert support about Tii products, features and opportunities enabling customer accounts to grow. Knows customer’s histories and stories well, what do they need, why do they need it, what is their usage, is informed and ready to engage with the customer closely based on a full working knowledge of the customer’s situation.
• Executes a strategic plan to expand the customer base from within the existing accounts managed. Achieves renewals and growth targets, creating self directed plans and tasks to ensure customer success and that Tii sales targets are achieved in line with the Company’s goals.
• Works collaboratively to ensure customers renew with an appropriate price uplift and preferably with upsell opportunities – working with other teams to realize profitable results. Owns the customer renewal process and outcome, discusses contract terms with clients/customers and keeps track of timelines.
• Effectively communicates the value proposition, telling compelling stories through proposals and presentations, in RFPs/bids and tenders and at client and user events in order to deliver business growth.
• Works with all members of the GTM team to analyze customers data to identify growth opportunities and customer issues and to prepare concrete plans and campaigns, both strategic and tactical, to address issues and realize growth opportunities – continuously driving growth from existing customers and driving up adoption and usage.
• Work via GTM Team members to ensure Tii are building and maintaining strong, long-lasting customer relationships – work with Technical Support etc to drive positive change for the customer.
• Liaises closely with Sales/onboarding Teams to take a hand-over on key accounts, gaining a smooth introduction to enable a seamless service experience for the customer.
• Work closely with Marketing regarding the communication and lead generation events required in the market/area – building a mutually agreed annual marketing/communications plan for the territory/area. Participate in team campaigns, following up with targeted clients/customers to reach goals.
• Ensures that all internal systems, processes and ways of working are fully completed timely and diligently, in line with company standards, ensuring that data accuracy is always 100% and precise. This includes track/react reporting on CRM. Complete all relevant admin processes and procedures, using Tii systems – e.g. salesforce – complying with Tii standard ways of working.
• Communicates effectively between the customer and Product teams, and document customer requests appropriately.
• Strong team player, supports team mates and helps others whenever the opportunity to do so presents itself. Takes part in improvement projects as requested, makes proactive recommendations for change from customer feedback.
• Generates referral leads for the Sales team through customer networks and relationship building.
• Tracks own performance, provides general data and reports and updates as required.
• Actively progress in personal development.

Qualifications

• 1 to 2 years of related work experience as a Customer Success Manager, Account Manager, or sales 
• Saas or Edtech background preffered
• Results driven self-starter
• Strong interpersonal, communication and negotiating skills
• Demonstrated sales and objection handling skills
• Strong written communication skills
• Excellent phone presence

Additional Information

Our Mission is to ensure the integrity of global education and meaningfully improve learning outcomes. 

Equality Statement

Turnitin LLC and all related Group and Subsidiary Companies are committed to the policy that all persons have equal access to it programs, facilities and employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion, creed, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital or veterans status.

Our Values underpin everything we do.

• Customer Centric - We realize our mission to ensure integrity and improve learning outcomes by  putting educators and learners at the center of everything we do.
• Passion for Learning - We seek out teammates that are constantly learning and growing and build a workplace which enables them to do so.
• Integrity - We believe integrity is the heartbeat of Turnitin. It shapes our products, the way we treat each other, and how we work with our customers and vendors.
• Action & Ownership - We have a bias toward action and empower teammates to make decisions.
• One Team - We strive to break down silos, collaborate effectively, and celebrate each other’s successes.
• Global Mindset - We respect local cultures and embrace diversity. We think globally and act locally to maximize our impact on education.
   

Seeing Beyond the Job Ad

At Turnitin, we recognize it’s unrealistic for candidates to fulfill 100% of the criteria in a job ad.  We encourage you to apply if you meet the majority of the requirements because we know that skills evolve over time. If you’re willing to learn and evolve alongside us, join our team!  

Turnitin, LLC is committed to the policy that all persons have equal access to its programs, facilities and employment. We strongly encourage applications from people of color, persons with disabilities, women, and the LGBTQ+ community, regardless of age, gender, religion, marital or veterans status.