Customer Success Manager, Franconnect

Company Overview:

FranConnect is the leading provider of franchise management solutions, offering a comprehensive suite of software and services designed to empower franchisors and franchisees to achieve operational excellence and accelerate growth. Our innovative platform enables franchise businesses to streamline operations, drive franchisee engagement, and maximize profitability.

Overview of Job Function:

Are you passionate about Customer Success? Are you a professional with proven customer and technical acumen? Then come join FranConnect’s Customer Success team to help our customers maximize their utilization of our solutions by providing adoption best practices and optimization guidance to help them achieve their business goals!

As a Customer Success Manager, you play a pivotal role in ensuring the success and satisfaction of our valued clients. You will be responsible for developing strong relationships with key stakeholders, understanding their specific use cases and needs, and proactively guiding them to maximize the value they derive from our products and solutions.

Principal Duties and Essential Responsibilities:

• Serve as the dedicated Customer Success Manager for your assigned book of business.
• Be a product expert and provide key client stakeholders strategic and tactical guidance that drives product adoption, usage and value.

• Lead regular optimization reviews aimed at improving a client’s utilization of their existing FC product mix.
• Provide product education, enablement, thought leadership, and best practices to grow product usage.
• Proactively identify account health risks and take appropriate actions to maximize revenue retention and mitigate churn.
• Manage contract renewals, amendments, and renegotiations in collaboration with Account Management.
• Identify upsell opportunities and partner with Account Management to drive account growth.
• Partner with clients at all levels – end users, senior managers, C-Suite decisionmakers
• Design & execute on success plans and coordinate efforts amongst cross-functional team
• Be the voice of the customer to gather and provide product feedback to Product Management and Engineering teams.
• Maintain an ongoing understanding of FranConnect products, the Franchising industry, and key market trends

Minimum Requirements:

• Demonstrated B2B client facing experience
• Mid-Market or Enterprise Customer Success Manager experience supporting B2B/B2C SaaS applications.
• Proven success in effective delivery of Customer Success strategies while driving retention and churn goals.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities, with a keen attention to detail and a commitment to delivering exceptional service.
• Strong interpersonal skills while managing a variety of internal and external relationships.
• Strong commitment to, and experience with, cross-functional partnership.
• Strong project and time management skills with the ability to prioritize effectively.
• Naturally curious with the ability to learn and adapt quickly with minimal support and guidance.
• Clear communicator with exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong ability to adapt to change.
• Willing to travel up to 25% to client sites, conferences, and HQ, etc.

Preferred Requirements (but not mandatory):

• Bachelor's degree: Business and Technical Degrees preferred
• Experience in Franchising or with Franchise Management software.
• Experience with ChurnZero and Salesforce.com.