
Customer Success Executive
Required skills
- enterprise implementations
- health systems
- implementation leader
- program owner
- implementation governance
- customer and internal stakeholders
- implementation risks
- implementation outcomes
- executive sponsors
- laboratory leadership
Nice to have
- organizational change management
- cross-functional stakeholder alignment
- clinical care
- hospital operations
- laboratory operations
- emergency department workflows
Role summary
Cytovale is seeking a Customer Success Executive (CSE) to lead enterprise implementations of its IntelliSep sepsis detection technology within health systems. This leadership role involves orchestrating cross-functional teams, managing implementation governance, aligning stakeholders, mitigating risks, and ensuring successful project outcomes. The CSE will develop executive relationships, manage integrated project plans, and drive customer success by aligning on objectives and metrics. The ideal candidate has a Bachelor's degree and at least 10 years of experience in healthcare technology implementation, program management, or customer-facing leadership, with strong presentation, communication, and facilitation skills. Experience in clinical operations, laboratory operations, or healthcare IT is preferred.
- Develop executive working relationships with executive sponsors, laboratory leadership, clinical stakeholders, information technology teams, and operational leaders
- Establish governance structures and communication plans that maintain alignment across customer and Cytovale stakeholders
- Lead executive communications, governance meetings, implementation updates, risk discussions, and customer business reviews.
- Develop an understanding of each customer's organizational priorities, success metrics, workflows, and strategic initiatives
- Balance customer priorities with Cytovale implementation best practices
- Develop, own and maintain the integrated implementation project plan across customer and Cytovale workstreams, ensuring alignment of milestones, critical path activities, dependencies, implementation governance, resource planning and overall program execution
- Lead execution of the integrated implementation plan by orchestrating cross-functional workstreams across Laboratory (FAS), Clinical (Medical Affairs), Technical Service & Support, Customer Service, Information Technology, Data Science, Sales, and other internal functions
- Lead implementation governance meetings that align customer stakeholders and Cytovale functional teams on implementation priorities, project status, resource planning, risks, dependencies, and executive decisions
- Identify implementation risks early, develop and maintain mitigation plans, coordinate cross-functional resources, proactively remove implementation barriers, and drive timely resolution of issues
- Guide customer stakeholders through implementation by ensuring clear understanding of upcoming project milestones, responsibilities, dependencies, key decision points and implementation expectations
- Lead organizational readiness planning with site leadership to align implementation activities, workflow integration, operational planning, change management, and go-live readiness
- Maintain accountability for overall implementation execution by ensuring commitments are completed, milestones are achieved, dependencies are resolved, and implementation activities remain on schedule while enabling functional teams to execute within their areas of expertise
- Track implementation milestones through governance meetings, action items, implementation documentation, decision tracking, and milestone reviews to ensure successful execution and launch readiness
- Align customer stakeholders and internal teams around implementation objectives, adoption goals, success metrics, and long-term operational outcomes
- Monitor implementation progress, program health, adoption metrics, implementation KPIs, and overall implementation readiness throughout the customer lifecycle, ensuring successful transition from implementation to ongoing customer sucess
- Lead recurring customer governance meetings, KPI reviews, executive business reviews, and success planning sessions
- Coordinate with Medical Affairs, Data Science, and other functional teams to review implementation progress, adoption trends, customer feedback, and opportunities for continuous improvement
- Lead executive-level customer escalations by coordinating cross-functional response plans, maintaining proactive executive communication, and ensuring timely resolution of implementation issues
- Capture customer feedback, identify implementation trends, and drive continuous improvements to implementation processes and the overall customer experience
- Bachelor's degree in healthcare, life sciences, nursing, business, engineering or a related field.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience leading enterprise healthcare technology implementations, implementation program management, customer success, clinical operations, laboratory operations, or other customer-facing leadership roles
- Demonstrated success implementing complex medical technologies within acute care hospitals or integrated delivery networks
- Proven experience leading enterprise implementations involving executive, laboratory, clinical, operational, and information technology stakeholders across multiple concurrent workstreams
- Exceptional presentation, communication, executive facilitation, stakeholder management and influence skills
- Strong enterprise implementation program management, organizational, governance, and problem-solving abilities, including experience developing integrated implementation project plans, managing critical path activities, facilitating governance meetings, tracking action items, and leading multiple complex customer implementations simultaneously
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional implementation programs through influence rather than direct authority in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office with the ability to independently develop executive presentations, implementation project plans, dashboards, implementation documentation, and customer-facing materials
- Experience leading enterprise implementation programs involving multiple concurrent workstreams, executive governance, organizational change management, and cross-functional stakeholder alignment
- Demonstrated ability to build credibility and influence executive, clinical, laboratory, operational, and information technology stakeholders across complex healthcare organizations
- Frontline experience in clinical care, healthcare technology, or hospital operations, with an understanding of how new technologies are implemented and adopted within hospital environments
- Familiarity with laboratory operations, emergency department workflows, clinical implementation, healthcare information technology, and regulated healthcare environments
- Experience interpreting operational or clinical data to measure adoption, program success, and organizational outcomes
- Experience leading executive business reviews, customer governance meetings, and executive implementation reviews
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