Customer Value Associate - Tacto Pioneer Program

OUR PROMISE: BECOME A CUSTOMER VALUE MANAGER WITHIN 6 MONTHS The Customer Value Manager (CVM) role at Tacto is an exciting career path where your immediate impact is visible to both you and the customers on a daily basis. It combines consulting-style problem solving, daily collaboration with customers, and strategic responsibility for driving measurable value. Normally, professionals enter this world after gaining experience in consulting or similar roles for 2y+. With the Pioneer Program, we offer you a fast-track entry: in just 6 months you will develop the skills, confidence, and knowledge to work directly with our customers’ leadership teams, manage daily customer interactions, and deliver your own projects that help procurement leaders in the European Mittelstand capture the full value of our software. The Deal: Join as a Customer Value Associate (Pioneer) → Master our product and consulting toolkit → Deliver first measurable customer impact → Graduate into a Customer Value Manager role with your own customer portfolio after 6 months. You’re not joining to “maybe” get promoted — if you meet the clear milestones, you will become a Customer Value Manager after those 6 months. WHY JOIN THE PIONEER PROGRAM? - Master core Consulting skills: Analyze customer data, identify savings, build business cases, manage C-level stakeholders and deliver tangible outcomes to help Mittelstand leaders drive real change. - Customer-facing from day one: Daily interaction with customer procurement teams, exposure to C-level stakeholders, and ownership of customer deliverables. - Commercial + strategic: Become a strategic sparring partner for our customers and combine measurable savings & strategic transformation projects with long-term account development. - Intensive coaching: 1:1 mentorship with an experienced CVM, weekly learning journal, daily shadowing and debriefs, and a personal development plan tailored to your strengths. - Cross-functional exposure: As a CVM you sit between Product Development and Sales. You will learn firsthand how Sales, Product, and Engineering work together in one of Europe's fastest growing Startups. - Startup culture: At Tacto we are ambitious, passionate, humble and supportive. We believe in the power to act & proactivity - no matter if you are a fresh graduate, you will have full ownership from day one and have the opportunity to drive real change also within the company YOUR 6 MONTH JOURNEY Months 1-2: Bootcamp & Shadowing - Gain more knowledge on procurement basics & do a product deep dive - Learn about consulting & communication skills - Shadow real customer calls & onboarding sessions - Cross-functional exchange: 1 week in Product Management (refinements, plannings etc.) → Outcome: You know our product inside out and develop fundamental skills for handling customers Months 3-4: Guided Practice - CVM playbook: Health & upsell management, objection handling - Take ownership of first real work packages (e.g. risk management, savings analysis) - Spend up to a full week on-site with one of our customers to experience procurement reality in the Mittelstand - Present results directly to customers (with mentor support) - Cross-functional exchange: 1 week in Business Development → Outpcome: First measurable customer impact, positive feedback from stakeholders Months 5-6: Ownership & Graduation - Learn about negotiating, category strategies and many more topics through an exclusive training with a procurement expert - Lead your first project (e.g. savings case, supplier evaluation). - Deliver your Capstone Project: a customer-facing presentation with measurable savings or transparency impact. - Graduation Day: Official promotion to Customer Value Manager. → Outcome: Customer-facing project with validated impact, strong customer feedback, ready to own a portfolio WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR: - Impact-driven graduates from top universities, ready to translate their academic excellence into real-world results and build long-