Client Delivery Manager
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Description
- The Client Delivery Manager (CDM) is a customer-facing role responsible for building strategic relationships and driving measurable success outcomes for Thrive clients
- The CDM serves as the primary point of contact for assigned accounts, ensuring that clients realize full value from contracted services while managing contract P&L and identifying growth opportunities
- Build strategic relationships with key client stakeholders
- Identify current pain points and desired outcomes affected by services under contract
- Provide measurable value to the customer (Value Realization)
- Solve complex customer problems by partnering with Thrive resources to meet customer expectations
- Help customers optimize utilization of existing and available products and/or services
- Ensure best practice adoption across the customer environment
- Lead future lifetime value through higher product adoption, customer satisfaction, and overall health scores (including advocacy and reference-ability)
- Manage contract P&L to deliver to expectations and improve year over year
- Expand revenue in accounts through opportunity identification
- Prepare and drive successful contract renewals
- Ideal candidate would have a strong mixture of ITIL and business acumen leaning on ITIL as the foundation
- Manage customer onboarding activities
- Facilitate training and enablement
- Drive customer advocacy initiatives
- Manage and resolve escalations promptly
- Tools:
- ServiceNow Platform
- CustomerGauge
- Key Performance Indicators (KPIs):
- NPS / CSAT
- Retention
- NRR / GRR (FY27)
- Engagement (account activity, executive/POC engagement)
Benefits
- Comprehensive Benefits Package
- A Learning Company
- Paid Annual Leave and Holidays
- Smart and Diverse Environment
- 401K and Company Match
- Annual Company Events
- New Employee Referral Program
- Flexible Schedules
- The ideal candidate combines ITIL/ITSM expertise with strong business acumen and a passion for customer success
- Customer relationship management
- Business operations
- Change management (end-to-end)
- Risk management
- Project management (scoping, planning, milestone tracking, documentation)
- Process improvement
- Digitally fluent: understands basic AI and workflow principles
- Results oriented: takes accountability as customer advocate and Thrive business owner
- Learning agility: willing to advance current knowledge level
- Active listener: attentive to both customer and internal partners
- Team player: capable of working with and across functional teams
- Customer-centric attitude and proactive approach
- College degree preferred in a related field or commensurate work experience
- General understanding of technology and managed services
- 5+ years of digital experience as a CDM (Managed Services experience a plus)
- ITIL/ITSM, Lean Six Sigma, and other relevant industry certifications
- Strong general business acumen (financial/P&L acumen a plus)
- Initiative: proactive – acts without waiting to be told
- Strong work ethic (dependable, confident)
- Willingness to lean in (run to the fire)
- Ownership and accountability
- Honest and high integrity
- Adaptability: embraces constant change
- Willingness to learn and continuously improve
- Teamwork: works well across customer and Thrive environments
- Agile methodology
- Six Sigma