Manager of Customer Success, Cision

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Salesforce
Senior level
Remote in Canada
Cision

PR and marketing software

Open for applications

Cision

PR and marketing software

1001+ employees

B2BAnalyticsCommunicationDigital MediaSaaSData AnalysisMedia

Open for applications

Salary not provided
Salesforce
Senior level
Remote in Canada

1001+ employees

B2BAnalyticsCommunicationDigital MediaSaaSData AnalysisMedia

Company mission

To use their software to provide prompt and professional resolutions that allow PR and Marketing professionals to focus on optimal communication.

Role

Who you are

  • Achievement of team’s KPIs: ensures the attainment of a minimum gross retention rate (GRR) and Net Promoter Score (NPS), the successful completion of SuccessCOACHING certification for the team and monitoring the progression of client success plans development
  • Churn/Retention Analysis: ability to deliver key actionable items from analyzing churned and renewed accounts
  • Client Advocacy: Help CSMs identify client advocates for case studies and testimonials, coaches CSMs on how to foster long-term client relationships
  • Education: Bachelor’s degree and/or 5+ years CSM experience
  • Team Growth: foster a continuous improvement culture within the team with a focus on career progression
  • Technology Prerequisites: experience using CRMs, customer success platforms, meeting recording and scheduling applications, data analysis and presentation-building tools

Desirable

  • Work Experience: customer success management, SaaS, customer service, public relations/communications, education
  • Technology: Salesforce, ChurnZero, Jiminny, Calendly, 0365 Suite
  • Education: public relations & communications background

What the job involves

  • Customer Success at Cision is all about helping our customers achieve their desired outcomes
  • Reporting to the Senior Manager, Client Success the manager leads, coordinates, and manages the daily operations of a Client Success team (8 employees) to ensure the efficient and effective delivery of client services
  • Accountability: Holds the team and themselves accountable to the standards of performance by providing task clarity, setting limits or boundaries, communicating clear standards for high performance, and tasking corrective measures to ensure compliance
  • Coaching: Provides leadership, guidance, and direction to team members. Addresses personnel performance issues quickly and directly with colleagues before escalating to management
  • Conflict Management: Resolves issues by meeting 1:1 with team members and implements changes to ensure the work environment is fair and equitable
  • Developing Others: Assesses team members and provides timely and consistent feedback regarding job responsibilities
  • Interviewing: Able to determine candidate's fit into the Cision culture and any risk/red flags to the business
  • Leading Change: Reevaluates current procedures and suggests improvements to ensure an effective, streamlined process
  • Relationship/Trust Building: Develops professional relationships with Cision associates from other business units and leverages those relationships. Interacts with others in a way that gives them confidence in one’s intentions and those of the organization. Builds trust and cohesiveness among the team members both internal and external to ensure project success. Promotes professional relationships between Cision as an organization and the client
  • Strategic Thinking: Implements strategic objectives and develops metrics to assess attainment of work unit goals
  • Team Building: Inspires and fosters team commitment, spirit, pride, and trust through team building activities

Our take

As marketing and PR continues to be digitised, software that helps streamline and make their communication more efficient is in high demand. Cision ranks amidst the top PR Software companies and boasts over 100,000 public relations and marketing professionals globally.

The company is well established as a Media and Influencer Targeting Software and has rapidly become the market leader. As influencers have become more plentiful and effective, there is a forecast growth of brand spend on influencer marketing. Tools such as Cision are therefore looking to be in higher demand.

It is a global enterprise with a vast team of over 2000 employees, making it a company able to deal with high-frequency requests. Cision is already ranked as a leader in the $3 billion communications intelligence software and services market. In February 2023, Cali Tran took over as CEO, having previously led the influential Brandwatch which was one of four high-profile acquisitions made by Cision between 2021 and 2023.

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Freddie

Company Specialist

Insights

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

-2% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Company benefits

  • Career progression opportunities
  • Dental and healthcare plan
  • Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
  • Learning Portal

Company values

  • STRONGER TOGETHER
  • BE REAL. BE YOU
  • IMAGINE THE IMPOSSIBLE
  • MAKE AN IMPACT
  • OWN IT

Company HQ

New Eastside, Chicago, IL

Leadership

Cali Tran

(CEO (Not Founder))

Previously CEO at Brandwatch and Valassis and President at Centerfield and Vericast.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Cision

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Jasmin Zamora (Director, Engagement and Inclusion )

  • Cision is committed to fostering an inclusive environment where all employees can be their authentic selves and perform at their best
  • We believe diversity, equity, and inclusion is vital to driving our culture, sparking innovation and achieving long-term success
  • Cision is proud to have joined more than 600 companies in signing the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion™ pledge and named a “Top Diversity Employer” for 2021 by DiversityJobs.com

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