Role overview

Retention Account Manager, SMB

Requirements and responsibilities

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You Will

  • Be responsible for retaining a multi-million pound client base
  • Understand SMB customer needs across all verticals
  • Deploy retention strategies to mitigate churn and increase contract adoption
  • Strategically address customer concerns and competitive threats
  • Help evolve our retention motion through insights on product, operational, and competitive gaps
  • Work with our Sales, Support, Product and Analytics, teams to future proof our retention strategies

You Have

  • 3+ years of experience in Account Management, Customer Success, Sales, or a related client-facing role with direct ownership of retention outcomes
  • Proven success building trusted relationships with SMB and Mid-Market customers across multiple verticals
  • Demonstrated ability to reduce churn and retain at-risk accounts through proactive account planning and value-led conversations
  • Experience identifying and closing both retention and growth opportunities within an existing book of business
  • Strong track record managing a high-volume portfolio, balancing urgent inbound issues with proactive outreach
  • Comfortable working with challenging seller relationships and resolving escalations, high-stakes conversations and finding strong revenue outcomes
  • Strong negotiation skills plus solid financial/commercial acumen; able to translate value into business impact
  • Exceptional communication and internal advocacy skills; able to influence cross-functional teams and represent customer needs effectively
  • Strong organisational and analytical skills, using customer insights to prioritize actions and improve retention processes
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