Customer Success Manager - Melbourne

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  • Location:
    Melbourne, Australia
  • Area of Interest
    Customer Experience
  • Job Type
    Professional
  • Technology Interest
    *None
  • Job Id
    1428836

What You'll Do

As a Customer Success Manager, you play a crucial role in helping our customers successfully adopt and use Cisco technologies, driving value realization and growth. You will be the primary point of contact for customers, guiding them through software adoption and enabling them to accomplish their business and technical goals. Your responsibilities will include:

  • Driving software utilization and value realization, leading to customer renewals and business growth.
  • Proactively handling renewal risks, demonstrating insights to increase customer retention, and facilitating workshops to review adoption progress and ensure successful onboarding.
  • Building strong relationships with customer partners to understand their challenges and objectives, and collaborating with Sales, Customer Success, Renewals, and Business Entities to identify use cases that drive value and business outcomes.
  • Acting as a technology advocate, providing feedback to Cisco’s product teams for development and enhancements, and staying current with the latest Cisco technologies, competitive landscape, and industry trends.
  • Offering expert guidance to customers, ensuring they achieve their business and technical goals with Cisco technologies.

Who You'll Work With:

You will work closely with a diverse range of Customer Experience (CX) resources, including Customer Success Specialists (CSS), Renewals teams, and Partners. Your role involves partnering with Sales and Renewals teams to drive Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) growth. This collaborative environment will enable you to leverage the expertise and support of various team members to achieve shared goals and deliver exceptional value to our customers.


Who You Are:

  • 5+ years experience in the technology industry​
  • Advanced understanding of IT/ Infrastructure & Software ​
  • Confirmed ability to drive continuous software value through use cases​
  • ​Proven experience in a related function with direct customer advocacy and engagement in post sales or professional services function.​

You are proactive and strategic, with a passion for driving software utilization to accelerate business outcomes. You excel at creating and implementing Technical Adoption Plans that lead software outcomes and optimize Return on Investment. Your ability to connect Cisco's offerings to success measures and remove adoption barriers is unmatched. You focus on driving ARR growth and work collaboratively with Renewals and Sales teams. You have a keen eye for identifying new opportunities and are dedicated to ensuring customer success and satisfaction. You will have full Australian working rights.

Why join us?

Join Cisco's Customer Experience (CX) team and be a part of an exciting transformation! We're reshaping our CX Operating Model to deliver more personalized, proactive, and predictive interactions. As a key player in this journey, focus on value creation for customers across the whole portfolio of products, software, and services. You will help customers maximize the value of their Cisco technology investments. Your role will be crucial in fostering deep trust and building lasting relationships with our customers.


By joining us, you'll work in a dynamic and innovative environment that values simplicity and customer centricity and work to foster an integrated, outcome-driven approach to customer engagement. Ensure that every interaction is aligned with the customer’s needs and accelerates their ability to realize outcomes effectively.  


We celebrate diversity and believe that varied perspectives drive innovation and excellence. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams focused on technology service delivery and software adoption leveraging data-driven insights to create a seamless customer experience.


Be part of a high-energy team that prioritizes innovation, empowerment, diversity, and growth. Together, we'll set new industry standards and redefine the future of customer experience. If you're passionate about making a difference and eager to be at the forefront of CX innovation, here is the place for you!

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.

Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter.  Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

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