Customer Success Manager

Full Time
London, UK
2 months ago

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  About us

At GoCardless we believe bank payments are the best way to pay and get paid. We also believe that bank account data is a powerful tool to make better, faster decisions. We’re making it easy to use both- for businesses everywhere.  

GoCardless is used for domestic and international payments by 85,000+ organisations and counting, processing more than $30 billion across 30 countries. We are headquartered in the UK, with additional offices in Australia, France, Latvia and the United States.

The role

Working with customers across the UK & Ireland,  you will be responsible for the successful adoption and growth of your portfolio across a variety of customers. 

Your primary responsibility will be identifying a path to increase the breadth and depth of GoCardless usage and value across the customers footprint. You will need to work closely with your account team to map the scope by customer, identify stakeholders, assess risk/opportunity and create an execution plan. 

As a part of our wider success team, you will also work closely with Professional Services to drive implementation and time to value, our Customer Advocacy team to enhance the customer experience and share success stories, and Renewal Managers to work towards retention alongside a dedicated Account Executive for expansion and growth opportunities.

You will own the customer lifecycle, delivering value at each milestone and will be excited to drive the awareness and uptake of GoCardless as an account to account payments provider offering Bank Debit alongside our Open Banking capabilities.

What excites you:
  • Manage a book of business (BOB) and ensure delivery against milestones throughout the customer lifecycle, aligned with our team’s business KPIs.
  • Drive commercial discussions with customers by devising strategies to drive positive Net Revenue Retention.
  • Own and execute Account Plans tailored to each customer's strategic goals, positioning GoCardless as a trusted partner.
  • Partner with the sales team on Account Planning and driving total book of business growth through competitive, market and whitespace analysis.
  • Share commercial ownership of the Account Commercial Success including the need to Identify, nurture and close expansion opportunities across the base.
  • Identify and build a strong relationship with key stakeholders including C-suite, champions and end-users.
  • Work Cross functionally and collaboratively involving leadership across the business to drive customer value.
  • Mitigate risk including managing renewals for existing customers  
  • Forecasting accountability for your owned book of business 
What excites us:
  • 2+ years experience in complex end-to-end client facing work environment
  • 2+ years experience with Sales/CS and/or Account Management 
  • Additional languages a plus
  • Be a team player and have a growth mindset 
  • Strong listening and verbal communication skills: you will need to quickly understand customer needs or issues and deliver a clear and concise response via video calls, emails, in person meetings
  • Ability to manage conflicting priorities and thrive in a fast-paced environment
  • Be a good collaborator and can motivate or maintain enthusiasm of your team members
  • Finance/Payments industry experience are is plus
(some of) The good stuff
  • Wellbeing - stay healthy with dedicated support and medical cover
  • Work away scheme - you can apply to work away from your country of residence for up to 90 days in any 12 month period (in accordance with our work away policy)
  • Adaptive Working - Our hybrid workplace model fosters collaboration and flexibility, with in-office days determined at team level
  • Equity -all permanently employed GeeCees receive equity so we can share in the success we achieve together
  • Parental leave -to suit everyone embarking on life's great adventure
  • Time off - generous holiday allowance, + 3 annual volunteer days, + 4 annual business-wide wellness days (‘GC Fridays’)
Life at GoCardless  

We're an organisation defined by our values; We start with why before we begin any project, to ensure it’s aligned with our mission. We make it happen, working with urgency and taking personal accountability for getting things done. We act with integrity, always. We care deeply about what we do and we know it's essential that we be humble whilst we do it. Our Values form part of the GoCardless DNA, and are used to not only help us nurture and develop our culture, but to deliver impactful work that will help us to achieve our vision.

Diversity & Inclusion

We’re building the bank payment network of the future and our ambition is to move money anywhere, for anything, for anyone. If we’re going to achieve this goal, we need to build a team of ‘GeeCees’ that is as wonderfully diverse as the world we live in - with a multitude of perspectives, experiences & backgrounds.

We’ve got a long way to go, but here’s how we’re doing as of July 2024;

45% identify as women

23% identify as Black, Asian, Mixed or Other

10% identify as LGBTQIA+

9% identify as neurodiverse

2% identify as disabled

If you want to learn more, you can read about our Employee Resource Groups and objectives here as well as our latest D&I Report 

Sustainability 

We’re committed to reducing our impact on the environment, leaving a more sustainable world for future generations. In 2021 we became co-founders of the Tech Zero coalition, a group of businesses committed to taking climate action as part of the UNFCCC Race to Zero. We aim to reduce our impact and to create positive change on the natural world. Check out our sustainability action plan here. 

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