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Head of Customer Success SaaSSeamlessHR • Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Head of Customer Success SaaS

Head of Customer Success SaaS

SeamlessHR • Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
11 days ago
Job description

Strategic Leadership & Department Management

  • Execute the overall Customer Success strategy aligned with Seamless Technologies business objectives.
  • Lead and mentor Customer Success members to achieve the departmental goals.
  • Establish clear performance objectives success metrics and accountability frameworks across all CSMs
  • Continuously evaluate and optimize customer success processes workflows and operating models to improve efficiency and customer outcomes.
  • Foster a high-performance culture focused on customer value innovation collaboration and continuous improvement.

Customer Retention & Growth

  • Own company-wide customer retention and renewal performance.
  • Develop strategies to reduce customer churn and increase customer lifetime value.
  • Partner with Sales Product and Account Management teams to identify expansion opportunities within existing customer accounts.
  • Monitor customer health indicators and implement proactive interventions for at-risk customers.
  • Drive customer advocacy initiatives that strengthen customer loyalty and increase referrals.

Customer Experience & Value Realization

  • Ensure customers achieve measurable business outcomes through Seamless Technologies solutions.
  • Champion customer-centric practices across the organization through various touch points.
  • Oversee customer journey optimization across onboarding adoption engagement support renewal and advocacy stages.
  • Establish frameworks for capturing customer feedback and translating insights into actionable improvements.
  • Drive Voice of Customer (VoC) programs that influence product development and service delivery.

Operational Excellence

  • Continuously refine customer success policies playbooks and service standards.
  • Implement scalable customer success processes and best practices.
  • Leverage AI and automation and customer success platforms to improve team productivity reduce head counts and customer engagement.
  • Ensure operational consistency across Customer Success Customer Engagement and Customer Support functions.

Cross-functional Collaboration

  • Partner closely with Product Engineering Sales Marketing Implementation and Finance teams to improve customer outcomes.
  • Serve as the executive voice of the customer within SeamlessHR.
  • Influence product roadmap discussions using customer insights trends and feedback.
  • Drive alignment between commercial objectives and customer success initiatives.


Education

  • Bachelors degree in Business Administration Marketing Communications Management or a related field.
  • An MBA or relevant postgraduate qualification is an advantage.

Experience

  • 1215 years of progressive experience in Customer Success Account Management Client Experience or related customer-facing roles.
  • At least 57 years in a senior leadership/management position preferably within SaaS FinTech
  • Proven experience managing enterprise and strategic accounts with complex customer needs.
  • Demonstrated experience building scaling and leading high-performing customer success teams.
  • Strong track record of improving customer retention renewal rates customer satisfaction adoption and expansion revenue.
  • Experience managing customer portfolios with significant recurring revenue/ARR.
  • Experience working closely with Sales Product Engineering Marketing Finance and Operations teams.

Core Competencies

  • Customer Success Strategy & Leadership
  • Enterprise Account Management
  • Customer Retention & Churn Reduction
  • Customer Onboarding & Adoption
  • Upselling Cross-selling & Expansion
  • Customer Experience Management
  • Stakeholder & Executive Relationship Management
  • Team Leadership & People Development
  • Data Analytics & Customer Health Scoring
  • Customer Journey Mapping
  • Process Design & Continuous Improvement
  • Conflict Resolution & Escalation Management
  • Strategic Planning and Execution

The ideal candidate should be able to:

  • Develop and execute the organizations Customer Success strategy aligned with business objectives.
  • Build a proactive customer engagement model rather than relying primarily on reactive support.
  • Develop executive-level relationships with key enterprise customers.
  • Lead customer retention and recovery strategies for at-risk accounts.
  • Partner with Sales to drive account expansion and revenue growth.
  • Work with Product teams to translate customer feedback into product improvements.
  • Design scalable onboarding adoption renewal and customer advocacy programmes.
  • Coach and develop Customer Success Managers and other customer-facing teams.
  • Establish clear performance expectations KPIs processes and career paths for the CS function.
  • Present customer insights risks opportunities and performance trends to the Executive Leadership Team.



Required Experience:

Director


Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1

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