Customer Advocacy Senior Specialist

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Customer Advocacy Senior Specialist

Job Summary

We are looking for a proactive and collaborative communications professional to join our Global Customer Advocacy team. This individual will combine an understanding of technology and a passion for storytelling to help manage and grow our customer advocacy program in N.

America. They will engage directly with customers through programmatic outreach and relationship management to help grow and operationalize a top-tier advocacy program which puts the customer at the center, while supporting business and revenue growth.

Responsibilities

Recruit and manage high-touch reference relationships with strategic customers

Build and maintain in-depth customer profiles and contacts using Smartsheets and ReferenceView

Lead reference request fulfillment and track reference activity and outcomes

Collaborate cross-functionally and cross-regionally to drive opportunities for promotion and broad-based leverage of customer success assets

Secure customers to participate in joint storytelling with the media

Be a trusted advisor to the Customer and Revenue organization (CRO), including sales, marketing and customer experience and support them on how / when to use references

Develop strategies for coordinated customer reference engagement plans that showcase customer success via a variety of deliverables, including written, video, quotes, business and technical case studies and slide-ware

Develop customer story content and run end-to-end content creation process with in-house and external agencies, including translation and localization needs

Increase program adoption and transparency

Produce monthly / quarterly reporting and regular communications to collaborators

Champion long-term, mutually helpful customer relationships

Ability to understand and articulate the value of the program to a variety of internal and external audiences

Qualifications

5+ years experience in sales, marketing, communications or related fields, preferably in the B2B industry

An intellectually curious and hard-working learner who is self-motivated to understand the What and Why and delights in connecting new dots.

Thrives in a fast-paced, highly matrixed environment, showcasing calm adaptability and a positive acceptance of change as needed.

Excellent English verbal and written skills

Superb presentations and client-facing skills, particularly at the CXO level

Strong project and program management skills

Creative and highly adaptable to changing environments

Good analytical skills

Tech-savvy and quick learner (i.e. Microsoft Office, Smartsheets, Salesforce, CRM tools)

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