Customer Success Operations Manager, EMEA

The Senior Manager, Customer First Operations, EMEA will play a pivotal role in shaping and scaling our rapidly growing EMEA Customer First organisation. Sitting within our EMEA GTM Operations team, working closely with the Global CX Operations team, this role acts as the primary operational partner for the EMEA VP of Customer First and other senior CX leadership. You will be responsible for establishing and implementing operations rigour and standards for the CX team, spanning Customer Success and Technical Account Management (TAM), while working closely with adjacent teams including Renewals, Support, and Professional Services.

In this role, you will design, refine, and continuously optimise our Management Systems, bridging the gap between corporate strategy and regional execution to maximise Net Revenue Retention (NRR). We are looking for an experienced, highly collaborative candidate with a growth mindset, exceptional analytical skills, and an appetite for constant improvement. You will be tasked with integrating the customer journey from sales through to customer success, ensuring that global and local standards are consistently adhered to and operate in support of our aggressive growth targets. 

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Be a trusted operational guardrail: Partner deeply with Global Operations to define and maintain strict consistency across processes, preventing regional drift or siloed operations while ensuring global standards support EMEA growth.
• Establish and govern the Operating Rhythm: Maintain and govern the "operating rhythm" of the CX organisation. Ensure critical cadences (e.g. Get Well Plans, Account Reviews, Path to Green reviews, and Leader Cadences) run effectively with 100% execution and high data quality.
• Drive Management System Optimisation: Act as the operational owner of the EMEA Customer First Management System. Working closely with the Global CX Operations team to translate strategy into predictable regional execution across three core pillars: KPIs, Standards, and Operating Cadences.
• Enable Cross-Functional Handoffs: Actively drive Customer First execution by working with operations peers to improve critical intersections. Optimise the handoffs and alignment between Sales, Renewals, Support, Professional Services, and Customer Success.
• Maintain Customer Lifecycle Visibility: Keep an uncompromised view of the broader customer lifecycle through every major phase: Purchase & Plan, Learn, Deploy & Adopt, Use & Grow, Renew & Expand, and Advocate.
• Mitigate Risk via "Path to Green": Oversee the execution and accountability of regional "Get Well Plans", tracking Churn Dollars Saved against regional worst-case boundaries to proactively transition at-risk segments back to health.
• Shift to Leading Metrics: Drive the regional shift from lagging performance indicators (Renewal & Expansion rates) to leading ones (Stakeholder Expansion, Outcome Attainment, Customer Health targets >80% Green, and Lead Pass generation).
• Provide Operational Muscle for Scaling: Evaluate operational experiments (e.g. Key Account initiatives) to test new methodolog