Customer Success Executive, Financial Services – EMEA (French Speaking Required)
oxfordeconomics Customer Success Executive, Financial Services – EMEA (French Speaking Required)
Description
- Drive adoption and engagement across a portfolio of Financial Services subscription clients in EMEA, with a strong focus on retention and renewal.
- Lead the onboarding and training of new client organisations and users.
- Increase usage and adoption of subscription services across client accounts.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key users, decision-makers, and other relevant stakeholders within client organisations.
- Develop a clear understanding of each client’s objectives, use cases, stakeholders, and measures of success.
- Work closely with the Business Development team to identify growth opportunities, renewal risks, and potential cancellations, contributing to effective retention and commercial strategies.
- Proactively monitor client health and engagement, intervening where usage or adoption indicates potential risk.
- Share relevant customer insights and intelligence with the team to support renewals, account growth, and wider commercial opportunities.
- Respond to client enquiries in a timely manner and coordinate with relevant internal stakeholders, including Business Development, Economists, Product, and IT teams, as required.
- Track and analyse client usage to support customer engagement strategies, renewal planning, and internal reporting.
- Work with Finance to support the resolution of payment issues and overdue invoices where required.
- Develop a strong understanding of technical delivery options, including AI Tools, APIs, data feeds, and third-party compatible platforms.
- Report on customer opportunities, challenges, renewal risks, product development requests, and feedback.
- Prepare and maintain regular customer summaries, including usage, engagement, stakeholder activity, and renewal readiness.
- Identify and share insights on client behaviour, usage trends, and engagement patterns.
- Analyse customer data to identify trends and actionable insights across the Financial Services portfolio.
- Work collaboratively with Business Development to ensure a coordinated approach to customer retention, renewals, and growth.
- Share customer intelligence with Business Development, Product, Marketing, and other relevant teams to support commercial and product decision-making.
- Act as the voice of the customer internally, ensuring client needs, feedback, and priorities are clearly understood.
- A proven track record in Customer Success or a related client-facing Financial Services role.
- 2+ years of experience, ideally within a subscription, data, research, SaaS, or professional services environment.
- Highly personable with relationship-building skills, and the ability to engage users and decision-makers at different levels of an organisation.
- Commercially minded with a clear understanding of managing high levels of retention, working on renewals and improving a customer’s relationship with the organization.
- A collaborative team player who can work effectively across commercial, product, technical, and research teams.
- Experience working collaboratively with Business Development or commercial teams is desirable.
- Highly organised, with the ability to manage multiple client accounts, priorities, and projects simultaneously.
- Comfortable using data and customer insights to identify risks, opportunities, and appropriate next steps.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Experience using Salesforce
- Business-level fluency in English and French are required. Additional European languages would also be advantageous.
- Confident communicating with clients by phone, video call, and in face-to-face meetings.
- Private Healthcare
- Employee Assistance Program
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
- Workplace Nursery Scheme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Hybrid/Flexible Working
- Team Gatherings and Connection Boost!