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Cisco Technical Success Manager

Birmingham
1 month ago
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Would you like to kick start your career in a supportive, collaborative and innovative company?

Do you enjoy working as part of an enthusiastic, passionate, and collaborative team? 

 

Join our Customer Experience Team

Today's organisations require a better way to easily manage software across the entire lifecycle. They need to be able to respond to non-stop change as needed, to keep their solutions up to date, and realise the full value of their investments. This is delivered by Softcat's Vendor Customer Success Managers, who are a part of our wider Customer Experience Team. By becoming a member of the Customer Success team, you will be part of a group who are motivated to provide customers with the best experience by supporting them through their agreement lifecycles as well as ensuring that they are maximising their cloud investments.

 

Success. The Softcat Way. 

There's a uniqueness to Softcat – what we do, how we do it and why we do it. That's because we help customers to use technology to succeed, by putting our employees first. We give everyone the chance to step up and show how much they can achieve. We succeed when all our people succeed.

 

Empowering Customers Through Technical Excellence 

As a Cisco Technical Success Manager, you'll use your technical expertise to guide customers through their Cisco Software adoption journey and drive long-term success. 

As a Cisco Technical Success Manager, you'll be responsible for: 

Working alongside Customer Success Managers, Account Managers, and Cisco teams to drive adoption and renewals

Engaging directly with customers through meetings and calls, supporting adoption strategies and identifying expansion opportunities

Supporting Cisco partnership programs, audits, and contributing to shared team initiatives and inbox activities

Tracking customer progress, managing pipeline updates, and maintaining accurate data in CRM tools like Planhat

Participating in sales meetings to demonstrate post-sales value and contributing to larger Cisco software accounts across all verticals

Championing customer experience by aligning with Softcat's CSM methodology and continuously seeking process improvements

 

We'd love you to have 

Confidence to support customers with Cisco Security and Networking Software adoption using your technical knowledge

Self-drive with a proactive approach to engage customers 

Comfortable working in customer-facing roles, both virtually and in person

Strong organisational skills to manage multiple priorities effectively

Willingness to travel as needed to support customer and team collaboration

We also acknowledge that the confidence gap and imposter syndrome are a real thing and can get in the way of us meeting fantastic talent, so please don't hesitate to apply – we would love to hear from you!

 

Work in a way that works for you  

We recognise that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:  

Hybrid working – 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home  

Working flexible hours - flexing the times you start and finish during the day  

Flexibility around school pick up and drop offs 

 

Working with us  

Wherever you work, we want you to experience the freedom and autonomy to realise your potential. You will feel supported by a team that celebrates individuality, encourages different perspectives, and embraces every background.  

 

Join us  

To become part of the success story, please apply now.

If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we can provide support or adjustments that you may need throughout our recruitment process or any mitigating circumstance you wish for us to consider. Any information you share on your application will be treated in confidence.  You can find out more about life at Softcat and our commitments to diversity and inclusion at (url removed)/jobs/our-culture/ 

 

Here at Softcat, we don't prohibit the use of AI (artificial intelligence) in our application process, as we understand how far it can go to creating a truly equitable candidate experience. That being said, as a culture-driven organisation, we believe that the genuine essence of each person is what truly matters, so we highly encourage you to be as authentically you as possible when submitting your application to showcase your true and whole self

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