The Client Success Manager (CSM) will be critical component of the sales organization. The successful candidate will have deep knowledge of healthcare, especially primary care, value-based care, government, and regulatory evolution, as well as an ability to demonstrate value across a variety of stakeholders, including day to day contacts and executive leadership teams. Utilizing excellent relationship and communication skills, the candidate will have a proven record of growth and retention across a client portfolio.
Key Responsibilities
- Build client relationships that will lead to long term partnerships.
- Manage strategic client accounts independently.
- Demonstrate the ability to understand client needs and align with product functionality and services.
- Develop retention strategies, including contract renewal, product expansion, and new market development.
- Manage all client touchpoints and maintain historical retention targets, including annual renewals, key relationship changes, upsells and negotiations.
- Responsible for measuring and relaying impact and value, including ROI, product utilization management and value-based care successes.
- Responsible for client satisfaction.
- Exhibit thought leadership and deep understanding of the client landscape, including organizational and network initiatives, value-based care programs, and population health priorities.
- Perform remote and on-site account review meetings and conduct regular calls to communicate value creation, reporting, project status, and outstanding issues.
- Develop and maintain client journey and other stakeholder maps to effectively manage long term partnership and growth.
- Work collaboratively within Azara Healthcare to mitigate risks and deploy strategies for resolution.
- Provides training and expertise on the Azara products to help client(s) optimize their use or help their users optimize usage.
- Demonstrate capacity to manage changing priorities and ambiguity while remaining calm and controlled.
Other Duties
- Local and out of state travel as needed.
- Other duties as assigned.
Skills & Requirements
- Client focused and results driven.
- Exceptional listening skills.
- Team oriented.
- Detail and process oriented.
- Problem solver with excellent analytical and organizational skills.
- Polished presentation and meeting leading skills.
- Ability to lead internal and external stakeholders to a desired outcome.
- Knows when to ask for help and guidance and does so readily.
- Great natural interpersonal skills for client-facing activity as well as internal interactions and recognizes growth areas with guidance.
- Adapts to varying client needs in a variety of environments with diverse groups and individuals.
- Understands complex relationships, works collaboratively on solutions and guides staff in navigation.
- Demonstrates an interest in or understanding of the health care industry, operations, health policy trends, and any applicable regulations related to the responsible technical area.
- Ability to understand and explain reporting functionality in different ways to different stakeholders.
- Experience with, and understanding of, the outpatient clinical setting, especially the community-based primary care centers (FQHCs), and how it fits into the larger care environment strongly desired.
- Naturally inquisitive.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree
- Three (3) to five (5) or more years of experience in a directly related field.
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Ability to act as team player, sharing information willingly and accurately.
- Familiarity with data systems, including registries and other population health tools strongly desired.
- Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
- Proficiency in CRM tools, including but not limited to HubSpot or Salesforce.
- Experience with multiple Electronic Health Record platforms desired but not required.
- Experience in consulting desired but not required.
Azara offers a full suite of medical plans, (401(k) plan, 10 company holidays, 4 weeks of PTO) and other benefits in addition to a competitive salary. If you are interested in applying for any of the Azara career opportunities, please send a cover letter and resume to careers@azarahealthcare.com.