Manager
Customer Success, UK Ad Sales

• Sales

• Ad Sales

Location

• London

Job type

Permanent

What You'll Do

• You will work with and report directly to the Director, Customer Success Management team to collaborate, strategize, shape, develop and evolve the team to continually meet and exceed the needs and expectations of our internal and external partners.
• In close collaboration with the Sales, you will build strategy and drive execution via best-in-class customer service for some of the world’s top brands and agencies.
• You will directly lead a team of Customer Managers to support and drive revenue.
• You will be a guide on all responsibilities, processes and tools of the Customer Success Management role and a validated leader of the CSM teams aligned to the business you support.
• Partner and deeply collaborate with Sales Leadership on key accounts needs, account planning exercises, QBRs, etc, and act as an operational point of contact and escalation resource for clients and internal teams.
• Provide team mentorship and coaching while delivering tailored solutions to client requests.
• Maintain and approve policy exception requests relating to Service Level Agreements, Compliance, Pricing, Makegoods, and more.
• Build a strong cross-functional network and conduct regular status meetings with the leaders of these teams to maintain alignment that supports the business.
• Oversee completion of AM team recurring tasks including pipeline hygiene, campaign pacing, production tracking, measurement outcomes and client billing.
• Assess staffing needs and lead the interviewing, hiring and onboarding of talent.
• Identify the needs and lead training for the AM team inclusive of role-specific, soft-skills, procedural and developmental curriculum.
• Provide bi-annual development talks to your team.
• Review and approve administrative tasks for each individual on your team.

Who You Are

• You have a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, preferably in Sales, Advertising, Marketing, or Business.
• You have 10+ years of Digital Advertising Customer Success Management experience, and 5+ years of management experience.
• You are a digital media leader and consultant and have a proven track record of success.
• You have strong agency and industry relationships.
• Someone with a deep understanding of the advertising landscape and expertise in account planning, strategic planning, and media buying within Direct & Programmatic environments.
• You have experience running a team where Data & Insights drive the direction of the business.
• You know how to gracefully translate client requests for internal cross-functional teams.
• You are detail oriented and find solutions for clients while improving internal processes.
• You are highly motivated, entrepreneurial, energetic, and willing to thrive in a high growth, fast-paced organization.
• You hold positive relationships with internal and external partner teams.
• You are an effective listener and clear communicator as well as you have excellent problem solving and negotiating skills.
• You are passionate about identifying and developing excellent customer service skills in others.
• You have experience working within CRMs, OMSs, ad servers and other digital media tech systems and platforms, and are experienced in tools like excel and PowerPoint.

Where You'll Be

• This position will be based in London

Our global benefits

Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse.

Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success.

Global parental leave, six months off - fully paid - for all new parents.

All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub.

Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs.

Learn about life at Spotify

You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.

Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service with a community of more than 500 million users.