Head of Customer Success
Indexed description
This role is a key part of our leadership team, combining strategic ownership of customer success with hands-on team leadership and high-impact client engagement.
Your Role
As Head of Customer Success, you will be responsible for shaping our customer strategy while leading and empowering the team to deliver world-class service every day. You will report to the company’s CEO.
What you'll do?
- Grow the business by proactively managing the existing customer base, identifying up and cross-sell opportunities, developing a growth roadmap for the top 40 largest customers, while keeping an eye on usage metrics for the remaining 300+ smaller customers
- Mitigate churn and close Share-of-Wallet gaps by proactively engaging with the customer base, leading Quarterly or Annual Business Reviews, identifying strategic areas for engaging with our customers
- Be the voice of the Company towards our customers, educate and up-sell in equal measures, share best practices across the customer base and seek higher platform utilization
- Scale and lead the Customer Success team as the customer base grows, including hiring, onboarding, and developing Customer Success Specialists, while building the function and operating model for long-term scalability
- Manage and develop key account relationships while acting as the escalation point for complex or high-impact customer cases, ensuring strong, long-term customer success and satisfaction
- Collaborate closely with Sales, Travel Support, Product, Support, and Tech teams to enhance customer engagement, satisfaction, and retention, while also identifying and driving upsell opportunities
- Use customer data, usage metrics, and satisfaction insights to identify trends, uncover risks and opportunities, and drive continuous improvement across the customer lifecycle and engagement performance
- Define and optimize workflows, CRMs, and customer success processes
- Set and track team KPIs related to retention, NPS, adoption, and satisfaction
- M.Sc. Engineering or M.Sc. Business Administration or similar degree - solid academic background is a must!
- 10+ years of experience in Customer Success, Account Management, or a similar customer-facing role (ideally within B2B SaaS and/or the travel industry)
- 5+ years of experience leading CSM teams, with proven experience hiring, coaching, developing, and motivating team members
- A data-driven and analytical mindset, with experience using customer insights, KPIs, and performance metrics to identify upselling opportunities and drive improvements
- A proven track-record of managing task-driven teams using modern project management tooling, to balance the ratio of proactive vs re-active tasks. Very high ability to organise teams and create resource and planning forward visibility for the CSM team, which is then shared within the company for resource planning purposes
- Strong communication skills in Swedish and English (Danish/Norwegian is a plus)
- Tech-savvy with strong travel industry knowledge, including experience with travel systems, customer workflows, and CRM/Customer Success platforms such as Zendesk, HubSpot, or similar tools
- Ability to collaborate closely and efficiently with cross-functional teams and translate customer needs into actionable product or service improvements
- Be part of a rapidly growing company with the opportunity to influence the development of our platform
- Hybrid working policy
- A nice and social office in a great central location
- We prioritize your growth and development, offering training and education opportunities
- It is not our goal to box you in, on the contrary, it is to allow you to grow and self-improve through our performance management process. We have a well-organized career path, according to your professional ambition within our company
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