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Lia Soares Guerra

Lia Soares Guerra

Barcelona

Summary

With a solid background as an architect, I offer a special perspective on organizational abilities, analytical thinking, creative problem-solving, and collaboration across diverse teams in corporations. As a Customer Success Manager with 5+ years experience, I leverage these skills to excel as a customer advocate, a business builder, an account and market strategist, a risk mitigator, and a trusted advisor. My commitment is to ensure long-term satisfaction and success, what allowed me to have consistently exceeded Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Customer Success Manager

Flanks
Barcelona
09.2022 - 03.2024

Pivotal role acting as the first and main point of contact for all clients, increasing sales significantly and ensuring satisfaction and retention of customers.
• Focus on driving customer satisfaction, retention, and revenue growth by developing relationships with decision-makers and understanding their needs, challenges, and business goals.
• Regular follow-ups, business reviews, and performance assessments to track satisfaction, identify improvement areas, and develop action plans.
• Accurate records of client interactions for forecasting and reporting.
• Monitoring customer health metrics, usage patterns, and engagement levels to identify opportunities for upselling, cross-selling, and expansion, mitigating churns, and securing renewals.
• Effective and timely management of the entire customer onboarding process.
• Product education, guidance and strategic recommendations to drive
adoption and expansion, and creation of training videos and guidelines.
• Cross-functional collaboration with Sales and Marketing (evaluating local market characteristics), Product (understanding use cases for feedback and roadmap input), Finance and Support teams (handling escalations).
• Development and implementation of best practices, new processes, and tools to continually improve internal processes.
• Documentation of learnings to assist other team members.

Customer Success Manager

Tech Data Synnex
Barcelona
04.2019 - 07.2022
  • Generation of new business opportunities.
  • Building excellent customer relationships.
  • Communication, negotiation, and internal administration of recurring sales.
  • Development of relationships with key internal and external stakeholders from a broad portfolio of vendor brands.

Corporate Responsibility Assistant

Transperfect
Barcelona
01.2018 - 08.2024

An exciting and varied role, working across different teams and supporting various charity and fundraising initiatives for the benefit of the non-profit AFANOC, including the TransPerfect Mountain Challenge with over 150 participants and €70,000 raised.

Architectural Consultant / Guidelines Author

Doctors Without Borders - MSF
Barcelona
01.2016 - 09.2024

Creation of a technical manual with architectural guidelines for hospital expansions in all MSF facilities across the world.

Architect

Rio 2016 Organizing Committee for the Olympic & Paralympic Games
Rio De Janeiro
01.2012 - 01.2014
  • Planning of permanent and temporary facilities for the Equestrian Olympic venues.
  • Creation of relevant operational documents, reports & briefings.
  • Development of relationships and clear communication with key internal and external stakeholders, such as events specialists, governmental agencies, service providers, suppliers/contractors, and the International Olympic Committee - IOC.
  • Assisted in the preparation of presentations used during client meetings or bid processes.
  • Collaborated with engineers, surveyors and contractors on various aspects of construction projects.
  • Conducted site visits to assess potential locations for new buildings.
  • Presented final designs at customer review sessions prior to commencement of construction work.

Architecture Intern

Petrobras SA & Consulpri Projetos
Rio de Janeiro
01.2008 - 09.2012

Assistance with the planning and architectural support for construction in the Petrobras Research Center Cenpes 2 and Petrobras' Refinery Abreu Lima.

Research Editor

Academic Research at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
01.2005 - 01.2008

Database of Publications on Brazilian Houses of the 20th Century.

Education

International Cooperation

Universitat Internacional De Catalunya
Barcelona, Spain
07-2016

Bachelor's Degree - Architecture and Urban Planning

Universidade Federal Do Rio De Janeiro
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
07-2010

Skills

  • Technical

AutoCAD
SAP
Salesforce
Jira
Microsoft Office
API Integration
and others

  • Hard Skills

Account Management
Business Relationship Management
Project Management
Client Engagement
Data Analysis
Team Management
Planning and Design
Documentation and Reporting
Research
Technical Sales

  • Soft Skills

Communication
Collaboration
Empathy
Problem-Solving
Analytical Thinking
Creativity
Task Management (passion for
organization and prioritizing)
Leadership
Proactivity
Adaptability
Tech Savviness

Languages

Portuguese
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Spanish
Proficient (C2)
C2
French
Intermediate (B1)
B1

Accomplishments

  • Awarded with Honorable Mention Prize by the Brazilian Institute of Architects IAB in 2008 with the "Database of Publications on
    Brazilian Houses of the 20th Century".
  • Presentation at the XI Congress of Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics 2007 in Mexico of "Database of Publications on Brazilian Houses of the 20th Century".
  • Presentation at the XII Seminar on Latin American Architecture - SAL 2007 in Chile of "Database of Publications on Brazilian Houses of the 20th Century".

Birthplace

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Dual Citizenship: Spanish and Brazilian

Disabilities

33% of permanent disabilities accredited by Generalitat de Catalunya

Timeline

Senior Customer Success Manager

Flanks
09.2022 - 03.2024

Customer Success Manager

Tech Data Synnex
04.2019 - 07.2022

Corporate Responsibility Assistant

Transperfect
01.2018 - 08.2024

Architectural Consultant / Guidelines Author

Doctors Without Borders - MSF
01.2016 - 09.2024

Architect

Rio 2016 Organizing Committee for the Olympic & Paralympic Games
01.2012 - 01.2014

Architecture Intern

Petrobras SA & Consulpri Projetos
01.2008 - 09.2012

Research Editor

Academic Research at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
01.2005 - 01.2008

International Cooperation

Universitat Internacional De Catalunya

Bachelor's Degree - Architecture and Urban Planning

Universidade Federal Do Rio De Janeiro
Lia Soares Guerra