As a Senior Customer Success Manager, you will be part of the Basware Customer Success organization focused on our Strategic accounts. The role of Customer Success is to provide services that help Basware customers adopt, optimize, and accelerate the benefits of their Basware solutions and services.

This position, based in our Paris office, offers the opportunity to work with named strategic customers across multiple sectors, often on a global scale. Your role will be to ensure they maximize the business value of their investment in Basware.

The person we are looking for will need to have a strong focus and passion for driving adoption, customer retention, customer satisfaction and be comfortable playing a leading role when coordinating across Basware to deliver on success and improvement plans. You will also be comfortable speaking with all customer contacts at all levels, from AP teams to the C suite.

Key Tasks & Responsibilities:

Develop and implement strategies for customer success

• Create, maintain, and implement achievable customer success plans at any stage of the customer lifecycle. Continuously monitor, measure, guide and align both customer stakeholders and others within Basware to ensure tangible business outcomes are achieved and can be a reference

Act confidently as a networked purchase-to-pay practitioner and trusted advisor

• Be able to continuously collect and provide both customers and others within Basware valuable guidance on best practice, industry trends and relevant benchmarks. Develop trusted relationships, including at the c-level, and engage to influence.

Ensure successful ramp-up and adoption of Basware solutions and services

• Provide guidance and steering decisions to the Basware and Customer implementation teams to ensure agreed upon business outcomes are met and/or mitigation strategies are activated.
• Create, implement, and measure user and supplier adoption strategies linked to customer’s business outcomes. Actively measure adoption to identify and pursue opportunities. Work with customers and across internal teams, including product owners, to improve solutions and services and meet adoption objectives.
• Ability to identify opportunities where the customer would benefit from the use of additional Basware products. Work with the Sales teams in positioning the value and closing the sale of add on products and services

Manage operational activities to ensure success

• Accountable for the successful delivery of success and service improvement plans, working both cross-functionally and at times leading virtual teams to deliver agreed actions in a coordinated manner and to optimize the customer experience.
• Deliver services designed to drive customer success, including workshops, coaching, and profiling customer’s maturity across sourcing, procurement, and finance to identify opportunities.

Deliver and support the development of success services

• Contribute to refining existing or develop new methodology, frameworks, and tools based on experience, research, and analysis.

Cross collaborates with the Basware Sales teams

• Identify and create opportunities to grow the Basware pipeline
• Own the account in terms of renewals and upsells and actively drive these

Basware is how finance leaders in global enterprises can finally automate their complex, labor-intensive invoice processes and stay compliant with regulatory change. Our Accounts Payable (AP) automation and invoicing platform helps companies achieve a new level of efficiency – in a matter of months – while reducing errors and risks. We bring a unique combination of true automation, complete coverage, and deeper expertise to make it all just happen for our customers. That’s why the world’s most efficient AP departments at 700+ global customers rely on Basware to handle over 170 million invoices per year.

Joining Basware means you’ll join a team filled with innovators, passionate about their work and enthusiastic about the industry we’ve pioneered. You’ll work alongside highly motivated, capable, and friendly individuals who collaborate to deliver world-class solutions and services. A critical part of our culture is the high amount of trust we put into our employees—we want everyone to make a difference, so we offer flexibility in how you work, giving you the freedom and support to deliver your best results. We truly live our values where:

We Drive Customer Value , We Take Ownership and We Are Bold in everything we do, to make it all just happen for our customers.

Skills & Requirements

To thrive and succeed in this role, you will have significant experience in a customer facing, service-oriented role within a SaaS environment. Experience in Finance, procure-to-pay software systems and/or enterprise software applications, will be beneficial.

This is a fast paced and dynamic environment. We value employees who are confident, work well independently and in teams, are solution focused and for who adding value for the customer is a key focus area.

Required competencies and experience:

• 5+ years of experience in a Senior Success Manager role with demonstrated ability in driving software adoption and increasing revenue.
• Experience in continuous business improvement and value creation for the customer, through driving and optimizing the adoption. Ability to drive business outcomes discussions and lead the customers
• Experience working with global customers with local head offices and other European countries where Basware is located
• Demonstrated ability to drive and close up-selling opportunities with the customer base