Lead and manage a team of Customer Success Managers (CSMs), driving a high-performance, customer-centric culture.
Lead and manage the North American S2P Customer Success team of 10–15 CSMs.
Own the strategy and execution of customer lifecycle activities across onboarding, adoption, value realization, retention, and expansion for all North American S2P accounts.
Serve as executive sponsor and escalation point for strategic accounts, ensuring proactive risk mitigation and issue resolution.
Develop and implement processes, playbooks, and best practices to improve operational efficiency, customer outcomes, and team productivity.
Partner cross-functionally with Sales, Product, Delivery, Support, and Marketing to ensure a coordinated and frictionless customer experience.
Drive customer engagement through executive business reviews (EBRs), success planning, and value reinforcement activities.
Coach and mentor CSMs on strategic account management, stakeholder alignment, consultative engagement, and commercial growth enablement.
Monitor and report on key performance indicators such as Net Revenue Retention (NRR), churn, adoption metrics, and customer satisfaction (CSAT/NPS).
Advocate internally for customer needs and influence product roadmap, services development, and support improvements.
Identify opportunities to expand the S2P footprint across customer organizations in partnership with Sales.
Foster a culture of continuous improvement, learning, and career development across the Customer Success team.
Reports to the VP, Global Customer Success within the Global Client Services team.
Requirements
A Bachelor’s degree in business or a relevant field.
Approximately 10+ years of Customer Success experience in the SaaS space.
Approximately 5+ years of leadership experience, including demonstrated success managing a Customer Success team that manage complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise relationships in a SaaS or technology-enabled services environment.
Strong Source-to-Pay (S2P), Source-to-Contract (S2C) or Procure-to-Pay (P2P) domain knowledge and relevant industry experience (Fintech, Banking, Payments, etc.)
Proven ability to drive operational excellence and team results through scalable processes, tools, and performance management practices.
Strong business acumen and executive presence, with the ability to influence internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
Exceptional collaboration and interpersonal skills, with the ability to foster a team culture of engagement and achievement.
High emotional intelligence, with the ability to effectively communicate critical feedback and coach team members to continuously improve performance.
High level of organization, initiative, and accountability with a strong focus on outcomes and metrics.
Strong discernment and decision-making abilities to evaluate short- and long-term impacts.
Proficiency with Customer Success platforms (e.g., Gainsight, Totango), CRM tools (e.g., Salesforce), and productivity tools including MS Excel and PowerPoint.
Ability to travel approximately 15% for client meetings, events, and team-building.
It's great if you also have: An MBA or relevant graduate degree