As a Customer Success Manager (CSM) at KORE, you will be the strategic partner and advocate for our assigned customer portfolio, owning the post-sale lifecycle from onboarding through renewal. You are not a reactive troubleshooter; instead, you will proactively drive platform adoption, monitor customer health metrics, and systematically mitigate risk. Your goal is to maximize customer lifetime value, ensure high Gross Revenue Retention (GRR), compress Time-to-Revenue, and unlock commercial expansion opportunities by establishing yourself as a trusted IoT advisor.
In this role, you will be responsible for the following areas:
- Acting as the central point of contact for the entire customer lifecycle, from onboarding and adoption to renewal and expansion, ensuring a seamless and positive customer experience.
- Increasing customer platform adoption, revenue retention, and satisfaction at scale across your assigned portfolio using standardized tools and playbooks.
- Developing and maintaining effective cross-functional relationships across KORE to quickly navigate internal teams and accelerate customer adoption and time to revenue
- Acting as a partner to identify expansion and renewal opportunities, passing qualified leads to Sales by maintaining a solid working knowledge of KORE’s commercial offerings.
Onboarding
- Guide customers through structured onboarding processes, platform training, and Success Plan execution to accelerate platform adoption, compress Time-to-Revenue (TTR), and deliver rapid time-to-value. Co-develop, execute, and monitor living Customer Success Plans with clients, aligning deployment milestones, connectivity goals, and business outcomes with measurable ROI.
- Gather accurate,
detailed technical requirements from the customer during onboarding to ensure that training meets their strategic goals, and both parties are fully aligned on what success looks like.
- Own and maintain customer-facing onboarding materials to ensure our self-service resources are accurate, up-to-date, and best-in-class for customers to seamlessly scale their businesses with KORE.
Operational Excellence
- Develop a deep understanding of each customer's business objectives and challenges, positioning yourself as a trusted advisor to help them maximize the value of KORE's solutions.
- Conduct targeted training reviews for newly established customer contacts to maintain a high level of proficiency across KORE's self-service platforms and operational processes.
- Conduct regular business reviews (QBRs) and check-ins to assess satisfaction, address concerns, and reinforce the value of our partnership, driving customer loyalty and advocacy.
- Synthesize and advocate for the customer experience by providing actionable feedback to internal teams on operational gaps, helping drive positive process improvements and system enhancements.
Talent Development & Leadership
- You are an experienced and trusted advisor and trainer for the wider Customer Success and Support teams
- Develop and implement comprehensive training and onboarding programs for new team members
- Promote open and effective communication within the team and across other departments, role modeling the need for a diversity of perspectives to identify the best possible outcome.
- Help design, refine, and document standardized Customer Success playbooks to scale consistent team-wide performance.
- Maintain deep knowledge of IoT industry trends, telecom standards, and Customer Success methodologies to act as a trusted advisor.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in a customer-facing role such as Customer Success, Account Management, or Consulting, preferably within a SaaS, PaaS, or technology/telecoms (IoT) environment.
- Exceptional ability to build and maintain strong relationships with a diverse set of stakeholders, from technical teams to C-level executives, establishing trust and credibility as a strategic advisor.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage a portfolio of accounts, conduct strategic business reviews (QBRs), and execute time-sensitive projects (like onboarding) to accelerate customer time-to-value.
- Outstanding written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to effectively orchestrate internal, cross-functional resources to drive customer outcomes.
- Experience using data and customer health scores to guide actions, prioritize efforts, and mitigate churn risk. Proficiency with CRM software (Salesforce) and customer success platforms is highly desirable.
- Ability to grasp and articulate technical concepts related to IoT, connectivity, and platform solutions (e.g., KORE ConnectivityPro) to both technical and non-technical audiences.
KORE COMPETENCIES
- Commercial Awareness with Cons
📌 Customer Success Manager (Canada)
🏢 KORE
📍 Canada