Customer Success Manager - German Speaker

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**Recruitment Fraud Alert** We’ve learned that scammers are impersonating Commvault team members—including HR and leadership—via email or text. These bad actors may conduct fake interviews and ask for personal information, such as your social security number. **What to know:** - Commvault does *not* conduct interviews by email or text. - We will never ask you to submit sensitive documents (including banking information, SSN, etc) before your first day. - Commvault recruiters may contact prospective candidates through LinkedIn and other professional networking platforms regarding career opportunities. If you are unsure whether a recruiting communication is legitimate, review the profile to ensure they have a badge verifying them as a Commvault employee. If you suspect a recruiting scam, please contact us at [wwrecruitingteam@commvault.com](mailto:wwrecruitingteam@commvault.com) **About Commvault** Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) is the gold standard in cyber resilience. The company empowers customers to uncover, take action, and rapidly recover from cyberattacks – keeping data safe and businesses resilient. The company’s unique AI-powered platform combines best-in-class data protection, exceptional data security, advanced data intelligence, and lightning-fast recovery across any workload or cloud at the lowest TCO. For over 25 years, more than 100,000 organizations and a vast partner ecosystem have relied on Commvault to reduce risks, improve governance, and do more with data. **Customer Success Manager - German Speaker** **As a Customer Success Manager (CSM), you will serve as the primary post-sales relationship owner for an assigned portfolio of enterprise customers within Commvault’s Foundational Success tier.** **You are responsible for driving:** - **Customer adoption** - **Value realization** - **Retention (GRR)** - **Expansion influence (NRR)** - **Customer engagement** - **Lifecycle progression** - **Executive alignment** - **Customer advocacy** **This role requires a strong balance of:** - **Customer success leadership** - **Moderate technical depth** - **Commercial awareness** - **Project management** - **Cross-functional coordination** - **Executive communication** **You will act as a strategic customer advisor responsible for helping customers maximize the value of Commvault’s Software and SaaS solutions.** **Key Responsibilities** **Strategic Customer Success Leadership** - Own customer relationships across assigned enterprise accounts - Develop and execute customer success plans aligned to customer business objectives - Drive customer adoption, operational maturity, and measurable value realization - Conduct business reviews, operational cadence meetings, and customer governance sessions - Proactively identify customer risks and develop mitigation strategies - Drive customer lifecycle progression and customer advocacy **Revenue Retention & Expansion** - Own customer retention planning and execution strategies to maximize GRR - Identify and influence expansion opportunities aligned to customer priorities - Drive adoption and customer maturity activities that improve NRR readiness - Partner with Sales and Renewals teams on expansion and renewal planning - Use customer health data, adoption metrics, and engagement trends to forecast risks and growth opportunities **Program & Project Leadership** - Coordinate customer initiatives across TSMs, Support, Product, Engineering, and Services - Manage customer success action plans, milestones, dependencies, and stakeholder alignment - Lead customer escalations and facilitate resolution management - Drive accountability across internal teams to improve customer outcomes **Executive Engagement & Customer Advocacy** - Build trusted relationships with technical, operational, and leadership stakeholders - Present customer health, adoption progress, ROI, and operational recommendations - Advocate for customer needs internally across cross-functional organizations **Qualifications & Experience** - 5+ years of experience in Customer Success, Enterprise SaaS, Account Management, or related customer-facing roles - Proven success managing enterprise customer relationships - Strong customer success and stakeholder management capabilities - Moderate technical understanding of SaaS, infrastructure, cloud, or enterprise platforms - Strong project management and communication skills - Experience influencing GRR and NRR outcomes - Ability to communicate effectively across technical and executive audiences in German Language is a MUST. **Success Metrics** - GRR performance across assigned accounts - NRR influence and expansion contribution - Customer adoption and utilization improvement - Executive relationship maturity - Customer health improvement - Forecast accuracy for risks and opportunities - Escalation management effectiveness - Customer advocacy and satisfaction Commvault is an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. 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