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Head, SME Relationship Management

PressOne Africa

PressOne Africa

Customer Service
Lagos, Nigeria
Posted 6+ months ago

About PressOne Africa

PressOne Africa is the simplest way to get a dedicated phone number for your business. Our business phone system enables teams to share one phone number and centralize all customer calls in one place.

We are on a mission to help businesses improve the quality of sales and customer service conversations, ensuring their teams say the right things on every call.

We are in a high-growth phase and need a strong leader to implement and scale our SME customer relationship strategy. This role is key to ensuring that customers onboard properly, realize value quickly, and remain long-term users of the platform.

Role Overview

The Manager, SME Relationship Management will be responsible for building and leading a structured customer engagement strategy to drive retention and long-term business growth.

This is not a sales role—it is focused on relationship management, customer engagement, and retention. The ideal candidate has experience leading relationship management teams, particularly in financial services, telecom, or technology-driven environments serving SMEs.


Key Responsibilities

1. Customer Relationship Management & Retention

  • Build and execute a structured customer engagement process to foster strong relationships with SME customers.
  • Oversee a network of relationship managers who serve as trusted advisors for customers.
  • Ensure customers experience continuous value, leading to high retention and satisfaction.
  • Track and analyze customer health metrics, ensuring proactive engagement with at-risk customers.
  • Develop tailored strategies to increase Month-1 and Month-2 retention, driving sustainable growth.

2. Customer Success & Support Strategy

  • Develop personalized engagement playbooks that ensure customers are well-supported throughout their journey.
  • Collaborate with customer support to identify and resolve recurring customer pain points.
  • Maintain a deep understanding of customer needs and proactively provide insights that enhance their experience.
  • Ensure every customer receives the right level of guidance at key touch-points.

3. Team Leadership & Process Optimization

  • Recruit, train, and manage a team of relationship managers focused on customer success.
  • Set clear KPIs for engagement, product adoption, and retention rates.
  • Continuously refine processes to improve and scale customer relationship management.
  • Drive execution at speed, ensuring that relationship managers move with urgency to unlock value for customers.

4. Revenue Expansion

  • Identify opportunities for additional value creation within the customer base.
  • Implement strategies for expanding customer spend over time through upsells and feature adoption.
  • Ensure relationship managers recommend relevant product features based on customer needs.

Key Success Metrics

Your performance will be measured by:

  • Customer Engagement Rate – percentage of customers actively interacting with relationship managers
  • Month-1 & Month-2 Retention Rate – percentage of customers renewing after one month and two months.
  • Customer Satisfaction Score – Measured via NPS & feedback surveys
  • Revenue Expansion – Increased customer spend over time through deeper product usage.

Requirements

Qualifications & Experience

  • 7+ years experience in SME Relationship Management, or Customer Success
  • Proven experience leading and managing relationship managers working with SMEs.
  • Strong customer engagement and retention expertise, with a focus on long-term relationship building.
  • Excellent process management and execution skills—able to implement structured engagement strategies at scale.
  • Data-driven mindset—ability to track and optimize engagement and retention metrics.
  • Deep understanding of how SMEs adopt and use digital financial or communication products.
  • Strong leadership skills—able to drive execution while motivating a distributed team.

Benefits

Why Join Us?

  • Opportunity to build and scale a customer engagement function.
  • Work with a fast-growing company solving a real problem for SMEs in Africa.
  • Competitive salary + performance-based incentives tied to retention metrics.
  • A high-execution environment where your impact is felt immediately.

Work Style: Hybrid (2 Office days Per Week)

Compensation: ₦14M per annum + Performance Incentives

If you have a track record of managing SME relationship teams, are passionate about customer success, and excited about building a distributed team of relationship managers, we’d love to hear from you.