Senior Principal Customer Success Account Manager

CompanyMicrosoft

LocationLondon, England, United Kingdom

Posted At12/4/2025

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£41,700 (£21.38 per hour)

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Description

Overview

As a Senior Principal Customer Success Account Manager, you are an integral part of the customer account team, leading on driving value and business realisation for our customers.

This role is a senior account leader role which builds and coaches others on customer, partner, and internal stakeholder engagement strategy and models. Drives strategic relationships from Customer Success level; identifies, navigates, communicates, and influences key customer technical, business, and executive-level stakeholders (including partners). Synthesizes and combines various insights from their team and customer industry regarding business and Information Technology objectives for customer organizations using partnership with other account team leaders. Understands, identifies, and aligns Microsoft solutions, cross-cloud and technical capabilities. Drives conversations with customers to demonstrate alignment between customer objectives and the current Microsoft portfolio of work in the customer account. In partnership with key stakeholders and executives, develops and delivers strategic roadmaps for executing program planning and customer-facing program review, prioritizing engagements, and influencing key stakeholder and executive expectations to address agreed-upon customer outcomes and account priorities to deliver ongoing customer success. Leverages and improves upon methods for identifying, monitoring, and mitigating actual and potential blockers to consumption through data analysis and customer feedback.

Responsibilities

As a Customer Success Account Manager, you will:

Build and nurture strategic relationships with key customer stakeholders, partners, and internal teams, guiding conversations to achieve customer business objectives and maximize their investment in Microsoft.
Lead business value discussions at executive levels, coach others in effective communication, and orchestrate solution delivery across diverse teams.
Develop and execute Customer Success Plans (CSPs), proactively identifying and resolving blockers to product adoption and consumption, and drive business growth strategies.
Partner with customers to understand their business priorities, optimize usage, and deliver ongoing success through strategic program planning and review.
Align Microsoft’s cross-cloud solutions (e.g., Azure, Modern Work, Dynamics) to accelerate customer digital transformation, leveraging deep industry and technical expertise.
Evangelize Microsoft’s technology roadmap, challenge customer thinking, and drive transformation towards modern digital approaches.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

Master's degree in business, Sociology, Psychology, Computer Science, or related field, with strong and proven customer success experience, solution delivery, practice management, customer-facing consulting, or portfolio management experience

OR Bachelor's degree in business, Sociology, Psychology, Computer Science or related field, with strong and proven customer success experience, solution delivery, practice management, customer-facing consulting, or portfolio management experience

OR equivalent experience.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:Strong and proven experience within customer industry.

Certification in relevant Microsoft solutions (e.g., Azure, M365) or similar solutions

Relevant professional certifications e.g.

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Foundation certification or equivalent service management certification.

Project Management Institute (PMI) or equivalent certification.

Prosci or equivalent Change Management certification.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.