Deputy Customer Success Manager – Europe (Aviation)

Our team is excited to offer this role as an opportunity to progress in your career. In fact, we will support your development through mentoring, coaching, and loads of on-the-job learning, from our team and leadership, to enable you to grow towards the Customer Success Manager role.

This role is offered with the flexibility to work remotely, in one of the countries listed as “posting locations” for this role on our Careers page.

• Provide support to Customer Success Manager and in the day-to-day customer relationship across all levels of the organization, as well as assisting in Quarterly Reviews and Executive Reviews.
• Manage Viasat system delivery through entire process, i.e., concept, purchase order, installation, certification, and installation on aircraft.
• Help develop and deliver key strategic and revenue growth objectives in collaboration with leadership, targeting both short and long-term goals.
• Support the CSM in managing a cross-functional, matrix organization of engineers, developers, operations, logistics and field support personnel as part of the customer program.
• Help build and grow relationships across multiple airline functional areas to establish a position as a trusted advisor to the customer.
• Be a problem solver that leads by finding solutions and de-escalating issues internally and externally.
• Involvement in P&L and other financials (e.g. coordination with the billing team, invoicing, reporting, reconciliation, etc.).
• Provide support to CSM in negotiation with customer covering service agreements, amendments, change orders, pricing, etc.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of Customer facing Account Management experience in a technology organization, ideally in the aviation industry .
• Confident in clearly presenting concepts with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Proven ability to think creatively and strategically when implementing products and solving problems.
• Strong data and analytical abilities.
• Able to travel fairly frequently, on average 2-4 short trips a month.

• Previous airline or OEM experience.
• Software and hardware development oversight experience.
• Comfortable in supporting, influencing and at times negotiating.
• Curiosity in the aviation and telecommunication / satellite industry.

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