Job Title: IT Customer Relationship Manager (812996)
Location: 1401 Broad St Richmond, VA (Hybrid-2 days on site, 3 days remote)
Status: Full-time, Contract
Yakshna Solutions, Inc., (YSI) is a CMMI Level 3 assessed, ISO 9001, 20000:1, 27001 certified, woman-owned small business enterprises, headquartered in Herndon, VA, USA. YSI provides professional IT solutions and services to business corporations and government organizations. YSI is committed to serving business communities as a leading IT vendor providing innovative, quality, and cost-effective IT business solutions and services.
We offer a competitive benefits package that includes the following: 401(k), health, dental, and vision insurance, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance, paid time off, training, and professional development assistance.
YSI is seeking an IT Customer Relationship Manager. Ideal candidates for this role will innately be a strategic thinker, foster positive/purposeful interactions, build and preserve trusting relationships with assigned business partners throughout the agency. The position will also manage escalations for work within the service, product and project delivery pipelines.
Key Responsibilities
- Meeting with and communicating directly with Agency leadership up to the Executive level on a routine basis.
- Working closely with IT leadership to ensure successful and continuous delivery of all products and services by ITD.
- Assigned to partner with Districts to act as a point of focus / resource for IT management, escalations, and coordination.
- Partner with business and Enterprise Architecture to identify product lines, then develop and maintain a multi-year business capability roadmap.
- Responsible for building and maintaining relationships with assigned business partners.
- Interfacing with project managers, service and operations managers to coordinate work, prioritize requests, and manage escalations for assigned Divisions.
- Identifying opportunities for new services, service improvements, and technical innovation to meet business needs.
- Overseeing the management of business partner expectations as related to ITD engagement and service or product delivery.
- Managing escalations related to technology procurements, projects and service delivery requests.
- Identifying, championing, and communicating customer needs.
- Consult and collaborate with ITD teams managing production operations and the strategic direction for systems owned by assigned business partners.
- Support continued compliance with customer policies, standards, and guidelines.
Be expected to...
- Rely on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
- Independently perform a variety of complicated tasks.
- Work with a team of Engineering and Operations professionals.
- Communicate clearly and effectively, both speaking and in writing.
Required Skills and Experience
- Bachelor's degree or six (6) years or more related experience. (6yrs)
- Experience working in Information Technology (including knowledge of SDLC, Agile Methodology, Technology Procurements. (5yrs)
- Strong communication skills in writing, speaking and presenting with leadership of all levels. (10yrs)
- Ability to listen, build rapport, and develop credibility as a strategic partner. Be able to shift opinions using influence over positional power. (10yrs)
- Skilled and experienced at conflict negotiation and resolution; Experience dealing with difficult customers. (10yrs)
- Ability to share-ownership and drive results as a team. Ability to focus on purpose, value, and results, rather than solutions. (10yrs)
- Ability to connect strategy to execution; Strategic thinker. (10yrs)
- Experience in Product Line planning, development and management. (10yrs)
- Understanding of Organization Structure to include Districts and Central Office.
