Sr Customer Success Manager

The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways — from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community. The Role The Senior Customer Success Manager (CSM) is responsible for building and maintaining strong, high level (i.e. key decision makers, influencers and senior management) trusted advisor relationships within assigned accounts ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction and recognition of ROI tied to customer business initiatives, leading to strong renewals and solution growth opportunities. We are looking for a passionate and experienced individual; able to help a portfolio of customers reach their business transformation by leveraging our solutions. This person will achieve this by creating trusted relationships, providing technology, governance and adoption insights and industry thought leadership. Sr. Customer Success Managers must align our success with customer business initiatives by possessing an unrivaled sense of autonomy, ownership, and dedication to helping each customer understand their level of maturity through a value framework process. Your Impact Owns the customer experience, journey (adoption and value capture) and renewal results for your assigned enterprise and key accounts. Focus on customer intimacy. Deliver business impact and innovation to a customer's business by truly understanding our customers' key business issues and opportunities. Build and nurture key decision makers, influencers and senior management relationships across top accounts to solidify our partnership and commitment to the customer while penetrating the account deeper. Understands the customers’ business environment, challenges and opportunities, and aligns AspenTech’s initiatives with the customers’ initiatives, ultimately, aligning AspenTech’s success to the customers’ business initiatives.  Acts as a trusted advisor throughout the entire lifecycle of a customer account following the initial sale through successful adoption and ultimately renewal with growth. Ensure our solutions are understood that results in an increase in customer adoption and customer satisfaction Proactive customer contact and on-site visits to perform high level Executive Business Reviews, user group meetings, Road Maps, etc., to improve relationship and plan strategically with customers to help them meet their sales productivity objectives through the use of our products and services Collaborates with internal implementation consultants, sales account managers, and renewal representatives to develop and execute account plans, and initiate renewal and expansion opportunities to generate new revenue.  Work as part of the team to develop strategies for scale and growth. Ability to effectively facilitate and lead cross-functional teams and resources; manage both with and without organization authority. Delivers product insight and strategy advice for sales enablement, communication, and training initiatives. Uncovers and mitigates any risk that threatens your Customers’ growth, satisfaction, or renewal; conceive and execute risk mitigation plans by utilizing all available AspenTech resources. Responsible for nurturing assigned account base into long term strategic partnerships while increasing customer usage and adoption of solutions. What You'll Need Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant industry experience.  Significant professional experience in the process industry, typically 10+ years  5+ years of experience in Pre‑Sales, Post‑Sales, Customer Relationship Management, or Customer Success Management preferred.  5+ years of experience using AspenTech Engineering, Manufacturing, SSE, or APM solutions, or similar software suites used in the process industries, preferred.  Excellent written and verbal communication skills.  A verifiable track record of consistently meeting or exceeding revenue goals or business objectives.  Proven ability to facilitate and lead cross‑functional teams, with strong project‑management skills.  Experience managing multi‑million‑dollar portfolios.  Skilled in building relationships with key decision‑makers, influencers, and senior management within customer accounts. Strong self‑motivation, agility, and business acumen.  Professional fluency in English required; Italian language skills strongly preferred  The annual base salary range for this role is EUR 67,400.00 – 101,200.00 per year gross per year. This range represents the full base salary progression range for the role at the time of posting. Starting salary will be determined based on relevant skills, experience and internal equity, with the upper part of the range typically reflecting progression and growth in role.   This role is also eligible for bonus or variable incentive pay, subject to the terms of the applicable plan.   This role is covered by the applicable collective bargaining agreement which defines the relevant employment classification, minimum pay framework and pay progression structure: CCNL Contratto Collettivo Nazionale del Commercio | Confcommercio