Customer Success Acct Manager - BBBEE Internship

Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft with thousands of University interns from every corner of the world. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential—and excitement for the journey ahead.  

Customer Success Acount Manager (CSAM) understands their customers’ industry and business processes, which may include an industry or vertical focus such as Banking, Healthcare, or Manufacturing. Promotes adoption of technology by helping the customer optimize the utilization of their our products, demonstrating features beyond core functionality, ensuring Best Practice adoption. Primary point of contact for the customer in a post-sales production environment, proactively coordinating with any other cross functional team or organization inside of your company.

At Microsoft, Interns work on real-world projects in collaboration with teams across the world, while having fun along the way. You’ll be empowered to build community, explore your passions and achieve your goals. This is your chance to bring your solutions and ideas to life while working on cutting-edge technology.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

About the Programme

The Microsoft South Africa BBBEE Internship Programme offers talented graduates the opportunity to gain hands-on experience, develop professional and technical skills, and receive mentorship while working on meaningful projects. As part of Microsoft's commitment to skills development, transformation, and inclusive economic growth, interns are empowered to learn, grow, and make an impact while building the foundation for their future careers.

Responsibilities:

• Seeks information about the customer through research (e.g., reads customer publications, speaks with peers and customers) to learn about their business, needs, and strategy and keeps up to date with customer business and business outcomes. Communicates customer insights to internal teams
• Communicates business value of solutions for customer organization through demonstrations, storytelling, etc. Observes and listens to senior colleagues to build knowledge of relevant customer stories and industry, competitive, and/or Microsoft best practices to support business outcomes.
• Engages with and leverages relevant internal and external partners and/or Services to support business outcomes as appropriate. Identifies appropriate partner and jointly develops plan for the play based on knowledge of the customer.
• Coordinates internal peers across functions to support business outcomes and enable execution of customer success through One Microsoft. Identifies and begins developing relationships with customer team members.
• Acts as the voice of the customer and Partner by learning to identify and share feedback around technical capabilities, blockers, and insights that relate to the customer with internal teams (e.g., Engineering), leveraging relevant tools (e.g., OneList). Responds to feedback and supports positive change within Microsoft.

Programme Eligibility:

• Applicants must be South African citizens and meet the eligibility requirements of the Microsoft South Africa BBBEE Internship Programme.
• Currently pursuing (final year with no more than 6 months remaining) or have completed a Bachelor's degree in the last 6 months in Business, Sociology, Psychology, Computer Science, or related field. 
• Fluency in English. 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proficient communication and presentation skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Teams.

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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.