VP, Customer Success - UKI

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Customer Success

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Salesforce’s worldwide Customer Success Group's primary mission is to drive Customer Health, Adoption, and Consumption that leads to Salesforce Loyalty and reduced Attrition. We work with our customers to build relationships, learn about their businesses, and drive value-based results.

Salesforce is looking for a highly effective business and technology leader to become the VP of Customer Success for our EMEA UKI Operating Unit. This role reports to the Senior Vice President, Customer Success EMEA. The EMEA UKI Customer Success Leader leverages deep business and industry knowledge to partner with customers to help them accelerate business value and ROI from their investment with Salesforce.

You will align at the C-level, building and maintaining strong relationships to help customers progress on their transformation journey. In this role, you will be responsible for helping customers achieve business value faster and to transform their business and engage with their own customers in whole new ways. The end result is increased loyalty, value, retention, customer satisfaction and ultimately expansion of Salesforce's footprint.

This role has accountability for the entire book of customer business across the Operating Unit (OU), leading a team of Customer Success Managers (CSMs) and Customer Success Area Leads (CSALs). The CSMs drive Customer Health as measured through our Customer Success Score. This includes Product Adoption, Customer Expertise and Technical Health. In addition to Customer Health, the team is also measured on Salesforce Loyalty represented by low Attrition and increased AOV coverage.

The CSMs deliver engagements through our Signature Success Plan and this role collaborates across Salesforce by working to address any customer satisfaction, adoption, professional services, or renewal issues, resulting in clear accountability, consistent service and one face to the customer. The Customer Success Area Lead (CSAL) roles are sales-aligned and help orchestrate customer value realisation through our Premier Success Plans.

The role focuses on data analysis, business strategy, relationship management, and orchestrating customer success initiatives while working as a trusted advisor to Sales teams to improve customer outcomes at scale.

• Be the Customer Success Business Partner for the EMA UKI Operating Unit and manage relationships with senior stakeholders including the CCO, CEO and Sales Leadership, leveraging the Customer Health Score and Success Plan entitlements to engage with customers as needed using CSM and CSAL resources.
• Act as Executive Sponsor on key accounts, aligning with executives to understand their objectives, assess their capabilities and prescribe recommendations to accelerate business objectives and build a transformational vision
• Lead, coach, and evolve the UKI Customer Success teams, shifting the team's focus to proactive Adoption-Led Growth to ensure every customer engagement contributes to revenue, retention and consumption targets
• Operationally manage delivery of Success Engagements against key KPIs including throughput, closure rate and Customer Success Score outcomes, creating consistent and valued customer experiences
• Work closely with leadership to execute strategies that drive customer success,…