AV Project Management and Customer Success - Portland / Seattle / Northern California

This role will have to reside in one of the following locations : Portland + Seattle + Northern California

Job Purpose and Core Tasks:

The Customer Success Manager plays a critical role in:  1) managing overall growth, effectiveness, and profitability of Operation Room installation projects within their respective regions 2) delivering world class customer service.  The Customer Success Manager reports to the Customer Success Regional Manager.  

The Customer Success Manager will play the lead regional role in ensuring timely and accurate Operating Room installations, with hyper focus on customer success and satisfaction.  Additionally, the Customer Success Manager will work to maintain continuous horizontal alignment with the service and deployments verticals; together ensuring a best in class experience. 

Excellence in Performance Support:

Responsibilities in Detail:

Sales / Sales-Mkt Support:

• Engage horizontally in collaboration with sales, including proposal development and proper estimating, as needed
• Collaborate monthly with sales to ensure alignment on all customer deliverables to prevent negative GP impact
• Support other business development needs for sales and marketing as needed by management

Technical Experts:

• Complete all trainings as assigned through the OR1 training department
• Demonstrate technical competencies through successful installs, with minimal service tickets during the warranty period
• Demonstrate technical competencies by having low change orders per project, meet national standard
• Engage in outside training opportunities that evolve technical expertise

Project Management:

• Lead project planning sessions
• Manage project progress
• Ensure projects meet deadlines
• Manage relationships with clients and stakeholders
• Oversee all incoming and outgoing project documentation
• Design risk mitigation plan for the project
• Deliver projects on time and within budget
• Meet National KPI standards for Customer Success

Customer Satisfaction:

• Monitors, collects, and reports on customer feedback post installation for process improvement opportunities
• Proactively solicit customer feedback, positive and negative and work to mitigate all negative feedback
• Ensure KARL STORZ maintains it’s #1 ranking in Customer Satisfaction

Customer Success:

• Turn customers into raving fans
• Deliver customer training in a timely and comprehensive manner
• Confirm customer product utilization post-install.  Document utilization

Summary KPIs

This position will be measured on the following Key Performance Indicators (KPIs):

Minimum Knowledge, Education, and Skill Requirements:

Required

Minimum years of relevant work experience:

• A minimum of 3-5 years in consulting, project delivery, or project management
• A minimum of 5-7 years in role requiring technical acumen in AV or IP
• Field based project and program level management experience
• Comfort in ambiguous or high stress situations
• Track record of working collaboratively in a matrix-ed environment
• Track record in project / process improvement
• Knowledge and experience in the medical device and/or healthcare marketplace preferred

Minimum education, certifications and/or credentials:

• A Bachelor's degree in Construction Engineering, Construction Management, Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering or related degree is required or 5 years of experience with the preferred hard skills

Minimum soft skill requirements:

• Demonstrated outstanding personal leadership
• Demonstrated pattern of intellectual curiosity
• Creativity in the development of new approaches to improving the customer experience
• A true team player with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work with executives both within the company, its partners, and its clients
• A sense of urgency and impatience with the status quo
• Excellent communication and organizational skills, proven
• Highest standards of ethical behavior
• Excellent at multitasking
• Willingness to travel 80%

Preferred hard skill requirements:

Holistic understanding of Cable Terminations and handling: ability to perform cable pull, Solder, Crimp, Compression, and Punch-Down connections for audio, video, network, control, and power devices

Holistic understanding of Cable Media: ability to distinguish Coax, Mini-Hi- Res, Copper, Multi-Conductor, CAT-5/6, and Fiber Optic Cabling

Advanced knowledge  in control systems, power amplifiers, digital signal processors, video matrix switchers, video scalers, PC interfaces, computer controls, and digital video recorders

Essential Function:

Has contact with:

• Inside and outside the company staff
• Physical requirement/Demands:
• Work in and around hospital personnel, sensitive medical equipment, and patients.

Core Requirements:

• Degree of accountability: High
• Degree of decision making: Medium
• Financial/Budgetary: no
• Safety: This is a safety sensitive job.
• Quality: Adhere to KSEA OR1 Quality Requirements
• Authority to Sign (not applicable for North America):
• Travel: Good driving record Up to 50% travel during the year throughout the US, Canada and Mexico to customer sites that include, but are not limited to: hospitals, operating rooms, laboratories, and surgery centers.

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