Customer Success Manager in Toronto

As a Customer Success Manager (CSM), you will be responsible for understanding customers' needs, ensuring a satisfactory customer experience, fostering long-term loyalty, and optimizing the value they derive from our products and services. You will play a key role in building strong, lasting relationships with clients/customers. The ideal candidate should have excellent communication skills and a commitment to customer service, satisfaction, and success. We offer a competitive salary, a collaborative work environment, and comprehensive benefits, including performance bonuses and opportunities for professional development.

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Establish a trusted/strategic advisor relationship with each assigned customer and drive continued value of the solutions.
• Customer Engagement: Build and maintain strong relationships with customers, serving as their primary point of contact for Cisco-related inquiries and support.
• Post-Sales Support: Provide post-sales support to customers, ensuring a smooth transition from purchase to implementation and ongoing usage.
• Solution Guidance: Offer strategic and technical guidance to help customers effectively utilize Cisco services, including conducting regular check-ins, reviews, and optimization recommendations.
• Customer Success Plans: Develop and execute customer success plans tailored to each client's unique needs and goals.
• Issue Resolution: Proactively identify and resolve customer issues, working closely with internal teams and Cisco support when necessary.
• Training and Enablement: Conduct training sessions and workshops to enhance customers' understanding and usage of Cisco services.
• Feedback Loop: Act as a voice of the customer within CDW, providing feedback and insights to improve our Cisco offerings and services.
• Metrics and Reporting: Track and report on key success metrics, including customer satisfaction, usage patterns, and adoption rates.

YOUR TASKS

• Identify, define and drive renewals, phased upsell and cross-sell opportunities from account base, including the facilitation of change orders, as necessary.
• Facilitate the Onboard process for new clients and guide them through setup (Smart Account), training, and initial usage of EAWS for successful implementation.
• Conduct check-ins and reviews with customers to assess progress, gather feedback, and discuss goals.
• Participate in customer adoption and expansion discussions to provide technical guidance.
• Translate customer business objectives into clear technical requirements and configurations.
• Identify expansion opportunities based on customer usage, adoption progress, and technical insights.
• Act as the technical bridge between Account Teams, Pre Sales, and Delivery.
• Support Sales and CX partners by removing post sales technical burden from presales resources.
• Ensure consistent communication, ownership, and accountability across internal teams.
• Identify upselling and cross-selling opportunities.
• Manage customer lifecycle and identify optimization areas.
• Conduct reviews to ensure product adoption.
• Create reports, presentations, and performance insights to show impact – both to customer and CDW.
• Facilitate training sessions, workshops, and demonstrations.
• Develop customer success playbooks and resources.
• Act as a liaison between customers and internal teams.
• Handle customer escalations and ensure prompt resolution.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.
• Two-year minimum technical pre-sales or technical architecting experience.
• Prior experience in Customer Success or equivalent history of increasing customer satisfaction, adoption, and retention.

Other Requirements

• Proven ability to drive continuous value of solution(s).
• Familiarity working with clients of all sizes.
• Impeccable written and verbal communication skills.
• Detail oriented and analytical.
• Strong team player but still a self-starter.
• Thrives in a multi-tasking environment and can adjust priorities on-the-fly.
• Stay up to date on products, applications, technical service, market conditions, competitive activities, advertising, and promotional trends through the reading of pertinent literature, seminars, and online training.
• Knowledge and proven success of engaging and working with sales teams.
• Strong interpersonal and presentation skills, including consulting skills.
• Strong passion for learning and teaching others.
• Ability to think creatively and come up with proactive ideas that will increase sales.
• Strong problem solving skills.
• Must be able to communicate effectively and in a constructive manner with management, peers and coworkers.
• Proficient in Microsoft office applications.

CUSTOMER FOCUS AND QUALITY MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Each CDW coworker is responsible for maintaining customer focus and conforms to the CDW quality management system.
• Periodic reviews of CDW Circle of Service Philosophy and the Quality Policy to understand CDW’s commitment to excellent client service and continual improvement.
• Report any client problem, or any service outage that may cause potential client problems to your supervisor.
• Communicate improvement ideas that you have regarding CDW service quality or client satisfaction per established means.

At CDW, we strive to offer market-competitive total rewards packages to attract and retain talent. As such, we are committed to pay transparency and ensuring fair compensation for all our coworkers. Each of our roles is assigned a salary range that is informed by multiple sources of market data. We'll determine individual pay within a given range based on a candidate's prior experience, knowledge, skills and abilities.

Pay range: $88,000- $123,200, depending on experience and skill set.

CDW is committed to being an AI-fluent organization. We’re looking for people who bring curiosity, a learner’s mindset, and a willingness to engage with ever-evolving technology and tools.

Additionally, CDW is committed to fostering an equitable, transparent, and respectful hiring process for all applicants. During our application process, our goal is to understand your experience, strengths, skills, and qualifications.

About Us

CDW is a Fortune 500 technology solutions provider that helps businesses, government, education, and healthcare organizations achieve what’s possible through technology. What makes CDW different isn’t just what we do—it’s how we do it. At CDW we act as one- building trust, speaking candidly, and working together to achieve more.