Title:  Customer Success Manager

Descartes Unites the People and Technology that Move the World
The need for efficient, secure, and agile supply chains and logistics operations has become ever more critical and complex.  By combining innovative technology, powerful trade intelligence and the reach of our network, Descartes helps get goods, information, transportation assets, and people where they’re needed, when they’re needed. 

We’re one of the most broadly deployed logistics and supply chain technology companies in the world. More than 26,000 customers around the globe use our cloud-based solutions to transform the way they move inventory and information to enhance productivity, better serve customers, thrive competitively, keep pace with evolving regulations, and respond to rapidly changing market conditions. Descartes is publicly traded (Nasdaq:DSGX, TSX:DSG) with headquarters in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, and offices and partners around the world. With record financial performance for more than 16 years, we lead the industry in innovation investment. Every day, logistics service providers, manufacturers, retailers, distributors, and other logistics-intensive businesses of all sizes rely on our scale, stability, and comprehensive solution footprint to move what’s most important to them. Learn more at www.descartes.com.

We’re growing fast and invite you to join our amazing team. 
 

As we continue to grow our customer base, we are looking for a Customer Success Manager to join us as part of our remote North American team. You will play a critical role in supporting engagement with our MK Data product. This is a solution create value for the top global companies, and ensures customers are following local and international government regulations and sanctions. You will be a strategic advisor to our customers, sharing your expertise, insights, best practices, and recommendations. You will work with customers to understand their business goals and optimize the value of our solutions. You will ultimately manage a portfolio of customers to strengthen retention, increase expansion and cultivate advocacy.

 

What’s In It for You

Immediate professional development - You have experience in Account Management, B2B Consulting, or Customer Success. You want to channel your expertise in relationship building and problem solving towards helping customers with dedication, integrity, and high ethical standards. At Descartes, we value the contributions that each of our employees makes toward achieving our corporate goals. We strive to ensure that each team member has the tools and support they need to make valuable contributions. In addition, you will have the chance to collaborate with and learn from globally recognized industry leaders who pride themselves on delivering quality services and market-leading innovations. 

Career growth - This is an expanding area in the industry and within the organization. You will help shape the team and contribute to building and adapting the processes to ensure customer success. You will be coached and supported as part of a growing team. At Descartes, we foster a high-performance, team-oriented culture, and provide a place where you can pursue your goals. You will have the opportunity to move into a team lead or people manager role or across to another business area, including sales or implementation.
 

Exposure - At Descartes, we take a bottom-up approach, giving voice and opportunity to every team member to make an impact on how we evolve to attract and retain more customers. This is a chance to work with top strategic global clients, create engagement with customized solutions, and collaborate with internal sales and product teams. In addition, you will gain exposure to our other products and solutions. This is not project-based work, rather an opportunity to nurture ongoing trust with your clients. 

Continuous Learning - In this role, you will work with global customers, helping them solve critical compliance and logistics challenges. The solutions Descartes provides are market leading, and your role will be to ensure customers are getting the most from their investment. Your will work with a cross set of people from our customers including executives, IT, and compliance experts.
 

Flexibility - At Descartes, we've been working in a remote and hybrid model for years. Joining our Customer Success team is a chance to be part of our well-established remote team, with flexible hours that meet the needs of both our clients and your life.


What You Will Do

• Demonstrate your domain experience: You will act as a trusted advisor, provide strategic consultation, and address any customer inquiries. You will identify customers' organizational business needs and goals to better understand how we can succeed. You have the intellectual curiosity to dive deep into customers business and identify how Descatres can provide value. 
• Drive retention: You will proactively engage customers and develop action plans to optimize usage and mitigate any risk of churn. You will identify opportunities for growth and nurture customers into advocates to further Descartes' goals.
• Manage a portfolio of accounts: You will conduct data-driven, solution-oriented business reviews and success meetings. You will facilitate customer migration to our new web-based solution, setting them up on the platform, suggesting and negotiating additional features, demonstrating capabilities and providing training.
• Collaborate: You will work with the Sales, Marketing, Product, and Implementation teams on webinar development, and improvement/feature suggestions based on customer feedback.
• Grow your knowledge: You will stay up to date with technical changes, market conditions, government regulations, emerging trends, and initiatives involving competitive activities to reinforce our solutions as the choice for clients to address significant business issues and grow their revenue stream. 

What You Will Bring

• The experience - You have 3+ years of experience in a B2B customer-facing role. You may have grown from a BDR into an Account Management role, or you may have Customer Success or Consulting experience. You understand and have the skills to manage pricing, renewals, and negotiations, all with a focus on retention and growth. You possess a commercial mindset and focus on value for the customer.
• The customer focus - You have exceptional communication, presentation, written, and negotiation skills. You can build relationships to cultivate life-long business partnerships. You take a consultative approach to working with customers to engage and optimize their usage of software products. You are naturally curious and passionate about bringing clients the technology solutions they need to make their days easier and their work more efficient.  
• The business planning - You can dig deep to understand both the big picture organizational goals of your clients and the root cause of business problems, effectively aligning solutions to address complex issues. You are metrics-driven and insightful, communicating progress towards the plan, identifying roadblocks, and overcoming barriers.

Location: This is a remote opportunity, open to applicants authorized to work in Canada or the United States.#remote #LI- Remote

Salary Range: $65,000 to $75,000 CAD plus 20% variable commision.Compensation information provided is a good faith estimate for this position only. Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills as well as the years of experience you have. Similar positions located in different geographic regions will not necessarily receive the same compensation.

Join Us
As we scale, we’re looking for new doers, collaborators and innovators to join Descartes in uniting the people and technology that move the world as the Global Leader in Logistics and Supply Chain Technology. We’re entrepreneurial, hardworking, geeky-in-a-good way problem solvers. Guided by our values, we nurture a TEAM focused culture that invests in people and creates opportunities for advancement across a broad spectrum of career paths. We prioritize work-life balance and foster an environment with the space to take ownership, to be heard, and to carve a path for your individual accomplishments to help drive our success. At Descartes, everyone has a voice and the best idea wins, regardless of who makes it. We offer competitive compensation, great benefits, remote and flexible work hours, and the opportunity to join a company on an awesome mission with a great existing team and trajectory.

Descartes also has a deep sense of environmental responsibility. Learn more about how we helped our customers save over 552,000 metric tons of CO2 in 2020 by reducing fuel and paper consumption: https://www.descartes.com/who-we-are/social-responsibility-sustainability/environmental-impact.  Join a team that’s committed to working with customers to conserve resources and enhance sustainability.

If you feel you have 70% of the qualifications we are looking for, and Descartes sounds like the team and the mission you want to be part of, apply now. We can't promise it will be a fit, but we do promise to consider your experience.

Through COVID-19, we implemented a virtual hiring process and continue to interview and onboard candidates by video using Microsoft TEAMS. We record interviews and use them strictly for quality assurance, training and general record keeping purposes. Should you have any questions about this process, please connect with our hiring team in advance of scheduled interviews. We value the safety of each member of our community because we know we're all in this together. 

We are an Equal Employment employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial, or local law. For more information about our commitment to equal employment opportunity, please review our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics at Descartes.com. Descartes is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with disabilities. Applicants in North America with a disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process can email us at hrna@descartes.com. Provide your name and contact information along with the accommodation needed to assist you with the application process. Your request will be responded to as soon as possible. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.