Job description
We're looking for a Client Success Partner with consultancy experience to join us. You will be accountable for managing ongoing client relationships and client satisfaction levels on a number of key accounts. You will work at various levels of the delivery life-cycle, to assure services and solutions are managed, on time and are delivered to the agreed quality and cost with continuous improvement. You will be deeply embedded with the selection, management, motivation and nurturing of the delivery teams that you will rely to deliver quality services.
This is a challenging role, central and crucial to the overall success of the business. You will be balancing the needs of clients, talented resources responsible for service delivery and Expleo back office, support and leadership teams, to derive value and improvement.
To be successful you need to be excellent in managing and communicating the key accounts risk and issues, with a keen eye on meeting account revenues, profit and growth obligations.
- Works alongside Sales to develop resourcing and commercial models for new and existing client opportunities.
- Implements and maintains the client governance model, including regular performance and relationship reviews. Manages all key risks/issues with the delivery of services and ensures timely escalation.
- Assures the quality of client engagement and continuous improvement, ensures deliverables are on time and to the required scope and delivery standards.
- Actively manages the client relationship and key stakeholders with the view to maintaining client satisfaction and supporting business development, ensuring the on-site resources are delivering to the agreed engagement terms.
- Actively seeks to balance the on/off shore delivery model to improve gross profit.
- Supports revenue growth through pre sales, with involvement in client planning processes to understand the work pipeline, identifying opportunities.
- Works with other Expleo stakeholders to identify opportunities to develop and enhance service offerings and delivery models.
- Participates in formal client progress review meetings, providing relevant reporting as agreed on a client-by-client basis based on standard Expleo approaches.
- Timely allocation of appropriately skilled resource to support client solution delivery, responsible for ensuring that assigned resources are adhering to Expleo policies, processes and raising non-compliance.
- Provides project team with clear communications relevant to both Expleo and the client and manages employee issues/concerns.
- Ensures that new project resources are on-boarded smoothly without interruption to the project and knowledge transfer with the team is ongoing, de-risking single points of failure.
- Supports finance to manage the recovery of debt from assigned clients, and where needed liaises with the relevant departments to ensure legal commercial coverage is in place.
- Ensures the account is set up to enable timely and accurate billing, invoicing and logging of time and expense reports.
- Bachelor’s Degree in related field, or equivalent work experience
- Lean Six Sigma
- Agile delivery
- Business change
- Project Management qualification
- Has achieved trusted advisor status at a senior level with the client.
- Excellent client-facing skills, as an expert in own field has experience of influencing client decision making and direction. Takes time to establish underlying needs of client beyond those initially expressed.
- Applies insight, originality and a broad perspective to generate revolutionary technical solutions.
- Excellent communication and presentations skills. Maintains confidentiality, shares ideas and information, facilitates discussions and transfers knowledge to diverse audiences to achieve collective objectives
- Proven track record in client engagement management with excellent project management skills.
- Excellent knowledge and understanding of the IT and IT services industry.
- Ability to work in a matrix-management environment with strong client/customer service orientation.
- Has the ability to grow and maintain a network of contacts both internally and externally.
- Proven ability to transform customer requirements and expectations at a high level into a solution draft for client engagement.
- Has sales support skills, including previous experience of pre sales situations.
- Good understanding of legal frameworks around client consultancy and services engagements.
- Acts as a role model for continuous learning and development and challenges others to reflect and learn.
- Good self management. Takes on high commitments and works to achieve results despite setbacks, showing resilience in the face of challenges and in the pursuit of improvement.
- Ability to manage own expenses and ensure adherence of others to the expense policy.
- Ensures that deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale and budgets, and are signed off.
- Commercial account experience in a professional services engagement frameworks, effectively organising and managing client engagements and client satisfaction levels.
- Experience of introducing new concepts or strategies that significantly improve or revise the way business is done through to implementation.
- Experience of leading teams with an off shore/on site delivery model.
- Experience of creating an environment that celebrates both successes and failures,
- Experience of identifying the need, and creating working level processes where they do not exist.
- Experience in managing upwards with multiple people, gaining their trust quickly.
- Customer Experience
You'll also get the following benefits with the role:
- Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and ours peers through good times and challenges
- 25 days annual leave (increased to 27 after 2 years of service)
- Flexible/hybrid working model
- Access to discounts and offers through my expleo benefits
- Expleo academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
- Competitive company benefits such as medical and dental insurance, pension, life assurance, employee wellbeing programme, sports and social events, birthday hampers and much more
- Enhanced maternity and paternity, adoption and shared parental leave package
We're a great company to work for. People join us for many reasons, such as we:
- Are an established, rapidly growing business
- Support our employees career growth with training and development opportunities
- Offer a collaborative, engaging culture
At Expleo Technology, we work continuously to build a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We welcome and encourage candidates from all aspects of diversity to apply for this, and any of our advertised roles.
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