Customer Success Manager III

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About This Role:

As a member of Forrester’s customer success organization, the Customer Success Manager is responsible for the engagement value delivered to Forrester’s largest clients. The successful candidate will orchestrate the customer journey through proactive engagement strategies and guide Forrester’s premier user clients to their desired outcomes while driving great value in their partnership with Forrester. Monitoring the health of customer relationships, the Customer Success Manager will predict and navigate customer challenges and offer solutions that drive satisfaction, retention, and additional enrichment opportunities.

Job Description:

• Strengthens the premier client relationship health post-sale by effectively and efficiently onboarding and deeply embedding themselves in their accounts to drive high engagement. Serve as a client advocate, driving strong renewal rates and higher enrichment by understanding the client’s business initiatives and mapping to Forrester’s portfolio of products and services.

• Create, execute, and deliver a strong premier client engagement strategy, informed by the client executive’s overall account strategy. This includes the execution of services provided to the client; formal and informal client check-ins; onboarding; Executive Business Reviews, driving event attendance and the delivery of other value-added services based on the mutually agreed upon engagement plan with the client.

• Align with the Client Executive on the account strategy. Meet regularly to discuss account health, value capture, and engagement levels and to share potential new enrichment opportunities.

• Leverages the support of the Customer Success Specialist to ensure largest impact on client engagement and value delivered while efficiently servicing the account.

• Orchestrate the quality and timely delivery of products or services purchased by working with the relevant ecosystem partners in the product, research, and/or consulting organizations to ensure that client success measures are met, and value is maximized.

Job Requirements:

• Five to seven years of experience in driving successful solution-oriented client engagement; handling difficult internal and external business challenges; and delivering exceptional client service resulting in high client retention.

• Experience in managing projects with multiple stakeholders and systems, sometimes globally, and working within tight project and client timelines with resource constraints.

• Experience in building successful senior-level business relationships and facilitating conversations at all levels, including the C-suite.

• The ability to work in a high-energy, fast-paced environment, collaborating with other divisions to achieve strong results.

• Relevant business experience demonstrating a commercial mindset and an understanding of selling moments.

• A high degree of organization and proficiency leveraging internal systems.

• Successful navigation of business systems and processes to obtain high client advocacy and business results.

• Strong storytelling abilities, excellent skills in verbal and written communication and social interactions, and proficiency with technology.

Please note that the base salary range indicated here is inclusive of all applicable US geographies listed in this requisition. This salary range is based upon the position as described in the job listing. The offered compensation may vary within this range and is dependent upon the successful candidate’s primary work location, experience, training, education, and credentials.

Base salary range: $74,000 - $120,000
For information on benefits, please visit: https://forresterbenefits.com/

The application deadline is April 30, 2025.  Please refer to the job posting on Forrester.com careers page if the deadline has been extended

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