Head, SME Relationship Management
PressOne Africa
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
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.