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Job Description
Education Services: – Education Practice Manager – ( Guadalajara, Mexico)
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Position Overview
NetSuite Education Services provides comprehensive instructional programs to ensure our customers have the knowledge to achieve the highest level of success from implementation to onboarding to adoption then expansion.
The Education Practice Manager plays a critical role in achieving this objective. They work collaboratively with their consulting team to oversee the programs that help our customers to build product knowledge, increase user adoption and achieve ROI.
This position is part of a collaborative Education management team reporting into a Director of Education Services Delivery based in North America. The Education Practice Manager will manage a new team of Education Consultants in Mexico alongside an existing team in Brazil. They will be responsible for managing the successful delivery of all types of Netsuite Education Services to all LATAM markets (primarily in Mexico, Colombia and Brazil) with a focus on new customers during their NetSuite implementations (including Partner implementations). Education Consultants in your team will also manage North American training projects. The role will manage a project portfolio and ensure that quality standards for delivery are exceeded.
This role will also manage their business directly. They will work across teams to ensure the education solution offerings are meeting the needs of the customers over time particularly in relation to localizations for each market. The Education Practice Manager will work with their North America peer management team as well as across internal teams to drive the business to ensure our offerings are evolving to meet the needs of the customer and market.
We are seeking a services management professional, passionate about leading a team to high levels of performance while delivering solutions that drive the effective use of NetSuite by our customers. This role requires prior management experience with the ability to coach employees on performance and career growth while retaining talent.
Responsibilities:
Ensure High Customer Satisfaction and Referencability
Manage project portfolio to ensure quality, on-time and on-budget implementations using a mix of own team and global resources.
Maintain high levels of customer satisfaction and relentlessly pursue new ways of bringing value to our customers.
Collaborate with other Education Practice Managers in designing and improving onboarding, growth and professional development programs for our practice.
Develop a team of trusted Advisors to bring the customers through their implementation and beyond.
Collaborate with NetSuite consulting and partners during services engagements.
Quickly achieve high level knowledge of NetSuite and education and change solutions
Lead and Continuously Develop a High Performing Team
Attract, hire, lead and retain talent.
Mentor new education consultants and support ongoing development
Develop or identify expertise building activities for team members.
Ensure timely team readiness to support new product features and releases.
Oversee daily activities of the training delivery team, handle administrative tasks and provide direction, motivation and guidance.
Achieve or Exceed ES Revenue and Profitability Objectives
Partner with and support sales and consulting teams in developing proposals for our services
Represent our value proposition internally and to potential and current clients.
Drive creative solutions for ensuring renewals for education.
Ensure team billable utilization targets and practice revenue targets are met via effective resource allocation and collaboration with other Education Practice Managers.
Provide accurate forecasting for revenue and resource capacity planning.
Support global regions to align delivery models and to manage multi-national clients.
Full Professional Proficiency in English and Spanish (proficiency in Portuguese an asset, but not required).
Maintain and Enhance Our Best Practices Infrastructure
Collaborate with Director and peers to create new services to advance practice and customer success.
Collaborate with Curriculum Development and SuiteSuccess teams to design and develop appropriate and affordable education solutions for the LATAM market.
Provide feedback to education program management to ensure program, curriculum and asset quality.
Champion special projects to support business process, team and tool improvements.
Travel: up to 30%
Qualifications/Skills:
Excellent people management skills, including successful experience managing a training delivery/ user adoption consulting team for a software company or demonstrated success mentoring, coaching and developing others.
Strong history demonstrating leadership behaviors regardless of title; including inspiring others, leading by example, strong decision-making capabilities, flexibility, empathy and accountability.
Outstanding communication skills; presentation, written, verbal, listening, and influencing.
Ability to work effectively and cross functionally with all parts of global education services, professional services, sales, and partners, earning trust and building relationships throughout chain.
Strong team player with focus on and track record of collaboration and consensus
Ability to organize, prioritize, and manage multiple responsibilities simultaneously, while adhering to and improving processes and procedures
A dedication to client service, with strong customer relationship acumen and client management skills and ability to drive client satisfaction in changing environments, comfortable interacting with all levels.
Success working with customers (and alongside implementers) to develop and manage training and/or end user adoption solutions.
Successful resource allocation, timeline, administrative and project management experience
Skilled in designing and presenting solutions, articulating value propositions, negotiating project specifics, and managing delivery to maximize both revenue potential and customer success in a consulting/training practice.
Proven ability to translate requirements into workable project solutions, scope work effort and deliver to resultant contract.
Aptitude for thinking clearly and acting calmly in complex and fast-paced situations.
Experience with ERP/CRM software. Consulting and management experience in a SaaS environment is a plus.
Bachelor’s degree or recognized equivalency or achievement of recognized professional level.
Career Level - M2
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