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Love Life. Be You. - is central to our success and how we give our customers the freedom to do more of what's important to them.\nWhat does Access offer you?\nWe offer a blended approach to office working, encouraging you to collaborate and connect in one of our thriving offices. We deliver on what we say, taking the development of our people seriously. We’ll work with you to progress your success plan and provide opportunities to accelerate your career.\nAbout you:\nReporting to the Customer Success Director for ERP, you will lead the Regional Customer Success team for our SBD Software Company, covering Professional Services, Customer Success Management, and partnering with the support and renewal teams, serving clients across your region. The role will cover APAC with an equivalent role already existing in the UK and the two leaders being closely aligned to enable a consistent way of working and experience for our customers.\nThe SBD portfolio is currently Prospect CRM, Unleashed, and Tradify, but additional products may be added through future acquisitions.\nKey accountabilities and responsibilities:\nStrategic Leadership & Partnership\nPartner closely with the SBD GM and leadership team as a trusted advisor on customer strategy, market insights, and business performance.\nShape SBD strategy and business planning as a senior leadership team member, ensuring customer-centricity drives decision-making.\nPartner across Product & Engineering, Marketing, Sales, and GTM to deliver integrated customer strategies that accelerate growth, adoption, and expansion.\nTeam Leadership & Excellence\nBuild and lead a high-performing Customer Success organisation across Professional Services, Onboarding, and CSM, aligned to customer outcomes, technical environments, and business goals.\nDrive Customer Success innovation by leveraging Digital and AI to transform operations and amplify customer value.\nCultivate a high-performance culture, strengthening Customer Success expertise, leadership capability, and the talent mix needed to deliver exceptional outcomes.\nBusiness Impact & Growth\nDeliver measurable business outcomes across retention, expansion, customer lifetime value, and operational efficiency, with accountability for GRR, NRR, CSAT, TTV, NPS, and eNPS.\nScale and lead Customer Support and Customer Success teams across our GOCs in Romania and Malaysia.\nPartner with Sales leadership to drive growth and ensure a seamless customer journey from acquisition through expansion.\nDefine and optimise the customer lifecycle, leveraging technology, AI, and customer segmentation to standardise, scale, and enhance customer interventions.\nInnovation & Process Excellence\nDrive Digital and AI-powered self-service strategies that reduce customer effort, enhance experiences, and improve operational efficiency.\nPartner with Product, Engineering, Support, and Central CS teams to continuously optimise self-service journeys and automated customer success touchpoints.\nLeverage operational insights to identify trends and transform reactive support models into proactive, AI-enabled customer success experiences.\nChampion the voice of the customer, ensuring feedback drives continuous improvement across all customer-facing functions.\nEmbed customer success thinking across the business, acting as a centre of excellence and advocate for the customer.\nYour skills and experiences might also include:\nCommercial\nProven ownership of Gross Revenue Retention (GRR) targets, with demonstrable experience reducing churn through proactive risk management and value realisation programmes\nStrong commercial acumen with the ability to translate customer health into revenue outcomes\nDeep understanding of SaaS implementation and customer onboarding, with a track record of accelerating TTV through scalable delivery models and repeatable playbooks\nCustomer & Employee Experience\nSenior customer stakeholder management with a focus on driving measurable NPS improvement\nProven ability to build and retain high-performing teams, evidenced by strong employee NPS and engagement outcomes\nEmotional intelligence and resilience, with the ability to inspire and influence across a global, matrixed organisation\nMargin & Cost to Serve\nP&L management experience including optimising cost to serve through operational efficiency, automation, and Digital/AI-assisted touchless operations\nAptitude for continuous improvement, process optimisation, and scaling delivery without proportional headcount growth\nLeadership\nStrategy definition and execution in a fast-paced, PE-backed environment\nExperience of working in a truly global environment, balancing an understanding of local market dynamics and cultural diversity with the need for a standard way of operating\nProven ability to collaborate with and optimise global operating centres to drive consistency, scalability, and cost efficiency\nExcellent communication skills with proven C-suite and executive stakeholder engagement\nWhat are we all about?\nThe Access Group is one of the largest UK-headquartered business management software providers. It provides solutions that empower more than 160,000 small and mid-sized organisations in commercial and non-profit sectors across Europe, USA and APAC, giving every employee the freedom to do more of what's important. Its innovative cloud solutions and integrated AI software experience across multiple Access products transform how business technology is used.\nWith over 9,300 talented individuals driving innovation and customer excellence, we’re shaping the future of work. And we want you to be part of it. At Access, people are at the heart of everything we do. We’re committed to creating an inclusive, high-performing culture where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to thrive. If you’re excited about this role - even if your experience doesn’t tick every box - you might be exactly who we’re looking for.\nWe believe in equality for all and the transformative power of diversity. 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