Cengage Learning - Chicago, IL

posted 5 months ago

Full-time - Mid Level
Remote - Chicago, IL
501-1,000 employees
Publishing Industries

About the position

The Customer Success Specialist at Cengage Group plays a pivotal role in driving customer retention and sales growth by providing exceptional support to customers utilizing digital solutions. This position is centered around building consultative relationships with customers, which allows for the identification of additional digital solutions that can enhance their experience. The specialist collaborates closely with internal partners and teams to ensure customer satisfaction and is accountable for leveraging sales skills, product knowledge, and analytics to align digital solutions with the needs of current customers, ultimately aiming to meet or exceed sales goals. In this role, you will be responsible for achieving sales targets for assigned accounts, which is crucial for customer retention and sales growth. You will provide consultative upselling and service by applying your product knowledge and expertise effectively. Effective territory planning will be essential to achieve desired results, and you will support customers in navigating digital products and resources optimally. Monitoring the success of digital courses will enable you to foster a positive customer experience, while cultivating strong relationships will ensure customer satisfaction and drive success through effective problem-solving and solution offerings. Your role will also involve exceeding customer expectations by prioritizing their needs and focusing on the retention and renewal of customers. Acting as the voice of the customer, you will inform internal stakeholders about necessary product and experience improvements. Additionally, you will perform other duties as needed to achieve organizational goals, contributing to the overall success of Cengage Group in supporting learning and student success.

Responsibilities

  • Achieves sales target for assigned accounts to achieve customer retention and grow sales
  • Provides consultative upselling and service by applying product knowledge and expertise
  • Performs effective territory planning to get results
  • Supports customers to enable optimal navigation of digital products and resources
  • Monitors success of digital courses to enable positive customer experience
  • Cultivates relationships to ensure satisfaction and drive customer success through effective problem-solving skills and offering solutions
  • Exceeds customer expectations, prioritizes needs, and focuses on retention and renewal of customers
  • Acts as voice of customer to inform internal stakeholders on product and experience improvements
  • Performs other duties as needed to achieve organizational goals

Requirements

  • Minimum of 2 years of experience in relationship-based role - customer or account management
  • Strong desire and commitment to learn additional skills to close on sales opportunities
  • Strong communication skills, written and verbal to effectively engage customers
  • Demonstrated understanding of technology and some experience with digital products
  • Ability to build and maintain strong and trusting customer relationships
  • Ability to analyze data and apply to get results
  • Highly organized with ability to manage multiple projects and work efficiently
  • Ability to work independently, take initiative to drive efficiency and effectiveness in the role, and take proactive approach to supporting customers and collaborating with stakeholders
  • Some direct sales experience preferred
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience preferred including experience in a higher education environment, working with faculty on training and implementation of digital solutions
  • Prefer incumbent be located within assigned territory

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience in a higher education environment
  • Familiarity with digital learning solutions
  • Proven track record in customer success roles

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Total Rewards package
  • Incentive compensation program for sales roles
  • Support for professional development and learning opportunities
  • Diversity and inclusion programs
  • Flexible work arrangements
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