Hospitality Customer Success Manager (IC3)

Oracle Hospitality Cloud

As a member of the Oracle HGBU organization, your focus is to deliver post-sales support and solutions to the Oracle customer base up to and including Global Account customers, while serving as an advocate for customer needs. This involves resolving post-sales customer inquiries via phone and electronic means, as well as, technical questions regarding the use of and troubleshooting for our Electronic Support Services. A primary point of contact for customers, you are responsible for facilitating customer relationships with Support and providing advice and assistance to internal Oracle employees on diverse customer situations and escalated issues.

The Customer Success Manager serves as the single point of contact for Oracle Hospitality Cloud customers. Customer Success Managers duties include:

• Develop and maintain operational relationships with selected Enterprise Global Account Cloud customers up to and including Executive Level.
• Through daily activities, strive for a high degree of customer satisfaction resulting in a positive references for the services that the Customer is consuming from Oracle.
• Represent their customers as a single point of contact within Oracle Cloud Operations and partner with Support Customer Advocacy Managers along with Oracle Leadership to bind them together in a working team.
• Monitor and proactively manage cloud deliverables and service obligations to insure the proper quality of service is consistently provided to our customers.
• Handle day-to-day Customer relationship and when necessary for crises or escalations, connect the appropriate parties to reach resolution. 
• Educate the customer on the most effective and efficient way to use Oracle processes, products, tools, systems, interfaces and procedures.
• Drive internal processes to ensure the highest quality of service, and work with teams to improve as needed. Maintain accurate account information. 
• Perform with a high level of autonomy, reporting to management regularly on customer status and striving to keep cloud escalations at a minimum while keeping leadership appraised of any possible flare points. 
• Contribute to the On-boarding, training and mentoring of new Cloud Customer Success Managers.
• Excels individually while contributing to the team dynamic by providing direction and mentorship of others in addition to sharing any relevant product information or issues with the team. 
• Based upon interaction with customer teams, make recommendations to relevant Account Managers for possible up-sell activities to include services, add-ons, etc.
• Develop, manage, and present period service improvement plans internally and with customers.
• Proactively communicate to assigned customers following service interruption events. This includes participation in a CSM On Call Rota which covers weekends to provide proactive updates to customers during SEV1 incidents.
• Recognise chronic or reoccurring trends in service interruptions and elevate them to Senior Management.
• Creation of weekly/monthly system and infrastructure performance reports.
• Offer advice guidance and Technical assistance to wider Team Members where required

 

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Hospitality or related field preferred.
• 5+ years’ experience with customer engagement relating to IT Service Delivery or IT Project Management, with a proven record of driving process improvement and increasing customer satisfaction
• Strong knowledge of Oracle HGBU Solution OPERA Cloud PMS highly desirable.
• Strong knowledge of Oracle HGBU Solution Simphony POS desirable.
• Strategic Thinking – ability to create a vision and deliver to clients.
• Teamwork – candidates will need to be strong team players, who support their colleagues and share their skills.
• Excellent interpersonal, work flow management and communications skills.
• Experience in similar roles within IT or Hospitality environment, preferably both.
• Excellent analytical troubleshooting skills and ability to own problems through to resolution as well as being able to analyse statistical data
• Track record of working within diverse and successful IT teams.
• Ability to demonstrate a mature understanding of key Business groups
• Excellent documentation and PowerPoint presentation skills (i.e. able to efficiently create a multi-page deck to deliver a key message
• Good project and time management skills - Ability to work independently and manage one’s time.???? Verbal and written communication skills, problem solving skills, attention to detail and interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation and production methods.
• Influencing – the ability to influence technology decisions and represent accordingly

Duties and tasks are varied and complex; independent judgment needed. Fully competent in own area of expertise. May have project lead role and or supervise lower level personnel. BS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area.

As a member of the Support organization, your focus is to deliver post-sales support and solutions to the Oracle customer base while serving as an advocate for customer needs. This involves resolving post-sales non-technical customer inquiries via phone and electronic means, as well as, technical questions regarding the use of and troubleshooting for our Electronic Support Services. A primary point of contact for customers, you are responsible for facilitating customer relationships with Support and providing advice and assistance to internal Oracle employees on diverse customer situations and escalated issues.

In this role, you will be considered the lead customer liaison for 4 -10 strategic, top-revenue Support accounts, and will attend one-on-one meetings with representatives of the strategic accounts. You will be responsible for managing internal projects, such as creating internal training curricula and schedules, presenting across lines of businesses, identifying and driving productivity improvement opportunities, coordinating, preparing and qualifying Premier Analysts for Customer Visits and employee mentoring.

Job duties are varied and complex, needing independent judgment. May have project lead role. Because of the nature of this position, a proven track record of demonstrated working skills including, but not limited to, excellent verbal and written communication skills, project management skills, ability to multitask and work under pressure, and (most importantly) an unabbreviated commitment to ensuring customer success. Bachelor*s Degree in either communications or information systems, previous account management and customer-focused experience, training experience in a software environment, prior working knowledge of or the desire to quickly learn about Oracle*s products, and six years related experience.

As part of Oracle's employment process candidates will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment screening process. This will involve identity and employment verification, professional references, education verification and professional qualifications and memberships (if applicable).