Manager, Professional Services

As Services Manager, you will lead, guide and develop a team of 10+ Consultants and Project Managers. You are responsible for driving successful deployments of the Celonis technology across our customers in various industry clusters across North America. This includes to drive services sales cycles, incl. project scoping and service proposal creation, and ensure strong customer engagement management. You will partner cross-functionally to support all customer engagement efforts and will liaise frequently with the Sales and Value Engineering teams to ensure customer satisfaction, loyalty and adoption of the Celonis platform.

Celonis is the trusted platform to industrialize Enterprise AI. At our core is the Celonis Context Model — which combines process data, business knowledge, and intelligence into a living digital twin of the enterprise that AI can actually understand, turning AI's operational blind spots into operational clarity. World's leading companies trust Celonis and its global ecosystem of partners to make their AI agents, people, systems, and processes work together, achieving transformational outcomes. We believe there's a massive opportunity to unlock global productivity and sustainability by giving AI the context to understand how every business process really works. Join our mission to make processes work for people, companies, and the planet. The Role: As Services Manager, you will lead, guide and develop a team of 10+ Consultants and Project Managers. You are responsible for driving successful deployments of the Celonis technology across our customers in various industry clusters across North America. This includes to drive services sales cycles, incl. project scoping and service proposal creation, and ensure strong customer engagement management. You will partner cross-functionally to support all customer engagement efforts and will liaise frequently with the Sales and Value Engineering teams to ensure customer satisfaction, loyalty and adoption of the Celonis platform. The Work You’ll Do: • Sales - position and sell the right services, work closely and build trust with Sales and Value Engineering to support ACV land and expand motions; maximize services revenue and ensure utilization targets • Delivery - manage portfolio of projects to success, build relationships directly with largest/most strategic customers in region; ensure timely and high-quality deployments of the Celonis technology, with a constant focus on driving measurable business impact and delivering tangible value, that meet customer requirements, accelerate time to first value and drive measurable business impact; communicate with stakeholders in Celonis’ largest customers, handle escalations and navigate challenging situations with positive and balanced results; manage, forecast and monitor resource capacity and utilization, staffing appropriately all customer engagements • Value and Adoption - Drive a value-focused mindset within the team, ensure project governance to deliver rapid, tangible improvements and fast ROI; drive adoption by ensuring comprehensive adoption plans are incorporated into each project, including user onboarding, training, and knowledge transfer, in collaboration with the Academy. • Product - ensure a focus on deep product and technical knowledge, that will provide thought leadership for our customers, and best practice implementation and adoption of Celonis software, especially in the area of new product introduction. Ensure that the Consulting team is fully enabled and leverages all product capabilities on customer deployments • People - build, support, enable a high performance team; lead and manage a team of approx. 5-10 Celonis Project managers and Consultants, specializing one or more industry verticals; proactively manage hiring, attrition, productivity, morale, resource allocation, team motivation and training, across the Consulting team • Partners - build relationships with the strategic partners (and our partner managers) in the region to support our most important customers • Practice - contribute to internal initiatives that make the organization better; recruit and develop a high-performing Program Manager and Consulting team, developing career paths for team members that allow for growth and development within the Services organization and Celonis overall The qualifications you need: • 7+ years of experience in delivering high complex projects as a Program Manager or Program Director. • Proven leadership experience either directly managing or indirectly leading teams focused on BI/analytics project • Proven track record of leading complex transformational customer programs. • Good understanding of the implementation of Celonis products, at a level required to lead and direct Celonis Consultants and Project Managers • Experience in managing professional services teams, preferably in enterprise SaaS companies • Experience of building relationships with sales teams, involvement in deals • Proven leadership in interacting with senior / executive level customers • Experience in recruiting, motivating and retaining top talent • Excellent communication skills Visa sponsorship is not offered for this role. The base salary range below is for the role in the specified location, based on a Full Time Schedule. Total compensation package will include base salary + bonus/commission + equity + benefits (health, dental, life, 401k, and paid time off). Please note that the base salary range is a guideline, and that the actual total compensation offer will be determined based on various factors, including, but not limited to, applicant's qualifications, skills, experiences, and location. The base salary range below is for the role in New York, based on a Full Time Schedule. $174,000—$200,000 USD What Celonis can offer you: • Pioneer Innovation: Work with the global leader in Process Mining and the Process Intelligence Graph to shape the future of AI-driven business operations. • Ownership from Day 1: Every full-time "Celonaut" is an owner, receiving Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and merit-based refresh grants. • Unrivaled Family Support: Benefit from our inclusive parental leave policy—24 weeks of fully paid leave for primary carers and 12 weeks for supporting carers, available from your first day of employment. • Work-Life Integration: Enjoy Unlimited PTO (in applicable regions) and generous PTO globally, as well as a flexible hybrid work model that balances remote focus with vibrant office collaboration. • Continuous Growth: Elevate your skills through our 70-20-10