Customer Success Coach

Company: Iris Software
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Location: Manchester
Job Description:

Overview

In this hands-on coaching role, you will elevate the performance culture across Customer Success and Renewals to drive proactive, outcome-led conversations and commercial confidence. You’ll work closely with managers, leaders, and Learning & Development to translate goals into practical action on the shop floor. Your impact spans coaching, consistency, and behavior change that improves adoption, retention, and renewal outcomes. This is a close-to-the-team, visible role that shapes how the customer journey translates into value.

Pay / Benefits

  • competitive salary and benefits package
  • hybrid working
  • supportive environment within a growing software business
  • learning & development opportunities
  • belonging and inclusive culture

Responsibilities

  • Coach Customer Success and Renewals colleagues to improve performance, confidence, and conversations
  • Guide the shift from ticket-led to outcome-led customer interactions
  • Support managers with reinforcing expectations, coaching themes, and consistency
  • Assist new starters with ramp plans and onboarding feedback
  • Use CRM activity, performance data and feedback to identify improvement opportunities
  • Create and share best-practice resources (coaching guides, playbooks, prompts)
  • Provide practical coaching on ownership, renewal discussions, adoption, retention and risk
  • Turn performance insights into simple, actionable coaching plans

Key requirements

  • Experience in Customer Success, Renewals, Account Management, SaaS or similar customer-facing environment
  • Ability to coach others and provide practical feedback
  • Experience supporting conversations around value, adoption, retention, renewal or commercial outcomes
  • Comfort using performance information to identify where support is needed
  • Strong communication and ability to give clear, constructive feedback
  • Ability to build trust with frontline colleagues and managers
  • Hands-on, visible, practical approach to performance improvement
  • Desire to help people improve and succeed
  • coaching
  • communication
  • trust-building
  • CRM data usage (e.g., CRM activity)
  • call quality review
  • performance metrics interpretation

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Posted: October 1st, 2026