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Jaya Vanjani

Jaya Vanjani

Customer Success Manager
Bangalore,Karnataka

Summary

With over 16+ years of comprehensive experience across the Software Development Life Cycle, I am a customer-oriented team player with expertise on Customer Success Management and Sales Engineering. I act as a strategic liaison between our company and customers, ensuring our product significantly benefits their business operations. Additionally, I possess strong skills in business development and operational areas, technical writing for RFx, sales strategies, conducting product defense presentations, and leveraging research abilities to drive successful outcomes.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Manager, Customer Success

Acceldata
02.2023 - Current

I act as a strategic liaison between our company and customers, ensuring our product significantly benefits their business operations.

  • Onboarding and Implementation: I oversee the customer journey, from onboarding to establishing their seamless integration with our product post-sales.
  • Understand customer needs through in-depth discussions and configuring the product for successful adoption.
  • Relationship Building: Build and nurturing customer relationships by ensuring responsiveness, hosting regular meetings, and conducting strategic business reviews.
  • Issue Resolution: Addressing customer concerns by collaborating with internal teams for timely issue resolution.
  • Feedback Loop: Collect and transmit customer feedback to our product development team for informed enhancements. Assess new enhancement requests, discussing their release schedule with the engineering team, and managing customer expectations around timelines.
  • Monitor success metrics such as product adoption, ROI, and other KPIs for effective product utilization.
  • Reporting and Business Reviews: Generate internal reports and analyses based on diverse data sources and use the inputs to conduct Weekly Business Reviews (WBRs) and Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) wherever applicable
  • Renewals and Retention: Focus on customer renewal and retention by showcasing ongoing value and aligning our product with their evolving needs.
  • Upsell and Cross sell: Identify opportunities for upselling and cross-selling products within our portfolio, especially Acceldata's range of data observability solutions, whenever appropriate. Collaborate with sales and product teams to address customer success objectives
  • Product Trainings: Conducted periodic user training sessions to support customer understanding and product feature utilization
  • Relationship Building: Established strong relationships with all customers, resulting in increased customer loyalty
  • Budget Management: Successfully managed budgets and allocated resources to maximize productivity and profitability.

Sales Engineering (Presales)

Acceldata
03.2021 - 02.2023

I hold a customer-facing role that involves interpreting, translating, and shaping requirements into tailored technology solutions using our organization's available products. My role extends across several key responsibilities:

  • Collaborating with Business Development Representatives (BDR) from initial discovery sessions.
  • Qualifying potential customers in conjunction with the sales team.
  • Actively engaging in the entire customer lifecycle, including understanding business needs, providing tailored product demonstrations, defining Proof of Concept (PoC) success criteria, and facilitating PoC execution.
  • Sharing PoC findings with customers and the sales team, preparing technical product proposals with tentative pricing upon successful deal conversions.
  • Handing over finalized deals smoothly to Customer Success Teams, contributing to pricing and solution architecture with technical team input.
  • Collaborating with multiple teams to design end-to-end solutions, estimate efforts effectively, and create tailored responses aligned with customer needs.
  • Owning and driving proposal content and presentations, managing the lead/opportunity process until closure, including proposal defense, pricing, and commercials.
  • Solely responsible for Presales duties in 2021

Senior Presales Consultant

Aspire Systems
01.2019 - 02.2021
  • Responsible for prospecting, qualifying, proposing, negotiating, and closing sales opportunities. This includes pursuit management, deal strategy, deal structuring and
  • Creating end-to-end solutions in collaboration with multiple teams for solution design, development, effective effort estimations, documentation and building an overall response that is best suited to customers' needs.
  • Own and drive proposal content and other artifacts (presentations), relevant to end-to-end management of the lead/opportunity process till closure including proposal defense, pricing, and commercials.
  • Creating engaging presentations, steering, and handling technical discussions
  • Owning Presales responsibilities single-handedly for the year 2020

Presales Analyst

Netlink Software Group America Inc.
09.2013 - 04.2018
  • Crafted project scopes tailored to meet customer needs, delivering solutions that maximize value for both clients and the company.
  • Curated essential documentation for successful vendor onboarding of Netlink, streamlining the process for prospective customers.
  • Established and managed a comprehensive repository for presales documents, housing proposals and artifacts spanning all business units.
  • Secured certification as an Assessment Team Member (ATM) by SEI, spearheading the formulation of Organizational Procedures for Netlink's CMMI Level 3 appraisal.
  • Led IT assessment and integration initiatives, analyzing various dimensions including people, systems, strategy, delivery, and technology. Developed actionable plans and roadmaps for improvement, emphasizing data analytics to enhance decision-making and operational efficiency.

Technology Analyst

Infosys
04.2011 - 04.2013
  • Implemented agile methodologies and quality-control processes ensuring adherence to QA standards.

Software Engineer

Interglobe Technologies (IGT)
09.2010 - 03.2011
  • Contributed as a developer in the travel domain for Travelport
  • Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance.
  • Delivered unit-tested systems within customer-prescribed timeframes

Associate Software Engineer

Tech Mahindra (Satyam Computer Services)
08.2007 - 11.2009
  • Joined Satyam Computer Services (Tech Mahindra) as a fresher through a campus placement program.
  • Received training in Microsoft Technologies and worked on a Physician and Patient Centric Portal within the Health IT sector, focusing on enhancing healthcare processes and adhering to HIPAA Standards, servicing HL7-based Interfaces from August 2007 to November 2009.

Education

Faith Academy
New Delhi
04.2001 -

Executive Program in Sales And Marketing - Marketing And Sales

Indian Institute of Management, Indore
Indore, Madhya Pradesh
04.2001 -

Master of Science - Software Systems

Birla Institute of Technology And Science
Pilani
04.2001 -

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical Engineering

Hindu College of Engineering
Sonepat, Harayana
04.2001 -

Skills

    Customer Relationship Management

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Accomplishments

    · Awarded “Presales Person of the Year 2020”

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Quote

If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.
Steve Jobs

Timeline

Senior Manager, Customer Success

Acceldata
02.2023 - Current

Sales Engineering (Presales)

Acceldata
03.2021 - 02.2023

Senior Presales Consultant

Aspire Systems
01.2019 - 02.2021

Presales Analyst

Netlink Software Group America Inc.
09.2013 - 04.2018

Technology Analyst

Infosys
04.2011 - 04.2013

Software Engineer

Interglobe Technologies (IGT)
09.2010 - 03.2011

Associate Software Engineer

Tech Mahindra (Satyam Computer Services)
08.2007 - 11.2009

Faith Academy
04.2001 -

Executive Program in Sales And Marketing - Marketing And Sales

Indian Institute of Management, Indore
04.2001 -

Master of Science - Software Systems

Birla Institute of Technology And Science
04.2001 -

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical Engineering

Hindu College of Engineering
04.2001 -
Jaya VanjaniCustomer Success Manager