SaaS Client Relationship Manager
Salary: £40,000 – £50,000
Location: London / Hybrid (2 days in the office per week)
About the role:
Your mission is to build robust relationships with Guru Systems’ key SaaS clients; housing associations, councils, metering and billing and energy service (ESCo) companies. This will be achieved with regular engagement in video and face to face meetings and phone contact with support from the COO and Sales team.
You will act as the client advocate within Guru Systems. You will ‘own it’, delivering through other teams to resolve client queries and action software feature requests that arise through regular meetings that you lead. You will have sufficient expertise and resilience to resolve client escalations.
With a consultant mentality you will handhold our clients’ as they utilise our software to ensure they get best value from their subscription and to avoid churn, signposting them to other teams and colleagues as needed. You will work closely with and need to be able to influence most teams across Guru; Support, Sales, Finance, Product and Site Delivery.
You will own onboarding preparation and administration, ensuring we have contractual and purchase order coverage before providing access to Guru services. You will be focussed on maximising our SaaS revenue, including a role in invoicing recurring revenue.
The nature of the role will mean managing many small and competing tasks and requires ruthless efficiency. We will need you to deliver quality whilst balancing this with thinking big and getting things done. It is suited to someone that is primed to identify improvements in ways of working and will fully embrace available tools and trackers to work smarter. We are looking for someone who relishes this challenge.
The role is suited to a proactive self-starter, that is tenacious, has excellent attention to detail, is reliable and effective in their client relationship management. They will be a trusted pair of hands that is trusted by our clients. Guru Systems is a SaaS SME, this is a hybrid role combining elements of Client
You will act as the client advocate within Guru Systems. You will ‘own it’, delivering through other teams to resolve client queries and action software feature requests that arise through regular meetings that you lead. You will have sufficient expertise and resilience to resolve client escalations.
With a consultant mentality you will handhold our clients’ as they utilise our software to ensure they get best value from their subscription and to avoid churn, signposting them to other teams and colleagues as needed. You will work closely with and need to be able to influence most teams across Guru; Support, Sales, Finance, Product and Site Delivery.
You will own onboarding preparation and administration, ensuring we have contractual and purchase order coverage before providing access to Guru services. You will be focussed on maximising our SaaS revenue, including a role in invoicing recurring revenue.
The nature of the role will mean managing many small and competing tasks and requires ruthless efficiency. We will need you to deliver quality whilst balancing this with thinking big and getting things done. It is suited to someone that is primed to identify improvements in ways of working and will fully embrace available tools and trackers to work smarter. We are looking for someone who relishes this challenge.
The role is suited to a proactive self-starter, that is tenacious, has excellent attention to detail, is reliable and effective in their client relationship management. They will be a trusted pair of hands that is trusted by our clients. Guru Systems is a SaaS SME, this is a hybrid role combining elements of Client
Relationship, Customer Success, and Account Management. The role reports to the Chief Operations officer (COO).
Essential skills:
● Experience with B2B clients
● Software as a Service (SaaS) experience
● Exceptional organisational skills, adept at prioritising competing priorities and meeting deadlines
● Ability to deliver through others and work effectively across teams
● Excellent listening skills and ability to build strong relationships with clients
● Excellent verbal and written communication skills
● Excellent problem-resolution skills and ability to handle client escalations
● Task management experience
● Proactive and happy to work autonomously
Desired skills:
● Have worked in heat networks or a related sector such as low carbon heat, energy, networks, utilities or with housing associations, councils and energy service (ESCo) companies
● A high-level understanding of wireless networks, internet of things devices or data analytics
● Experience delivering client training, ideally on SaaS products
● Intermediate spreadsheet skills
● Understanding of information security and GDPR
At Guru our Company Values and behaviours are: Own it, Make a difference, Be true, Think big, Be Inclusive and Help each other.
Health and wellbeing benefits at Guru are:
● Private Medical Insurance with Aviva on passing probation (which includes dental and optical benefits)
● 5% pension with Royal London matched by Guru
● 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
● 1 added annual leave day from year 2 (capped at 5 days)
● Hybrid & flexible working
● Work from anywhere in the world 4 weeks of the year
● Personal development budget of £1500 per year
● Quarterly company social
● Quarterly team social
● Cycle to work scheme
● Employee Referral scheme
Essential skills:
● Experience with B2B clients
● Software as a Service (SaaS) experience
● Exceptional organisational skills, adept at prioritising competing priorities and meeting deadlines
● Ability to deliver through others and work effectively across teams
● Excellent listening skills and ability to build strong relationships with clients
● Excellent verbal and written communication skills
● Excellent problem-resolution skills and ability to handle client escalations
● Task management experience
● Proactive and happy to work autonomously
Desired skills:
● Have worked in heat networks or a related sector such as low carbon heat, energy, networks, utilities or with housing associations, councils and energy service (ESCo) companies
● A high-level understanding of wireless networks, internet of things devices or data analytics
● Experience delivering client training, ideally on SaaS products
● Intermediate spreadsheet skills
● Understanding of information security and GDPR
At Guru our Company Values and behaviours are: Own it, Make a difference, Be true, Think big, Be Inclusive and Help each other.
Health and wellbeing benefits at Guru are:
● Private Medical Insurance with Aviva on passing probation (which includes dental and optical benefits)
● 5% pension with Royal London matched by Guru
● 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
● 1 added annual leave day from year 2 (capped at 5 days)
● Hybrid & flexible working
● Work from anywhere in the world 4 weeks of the year
● Personal development budget of £1500 per year
● Quarterly company social
● Quarterly team social
● Cycle to work scheme
● Employee Referral scheme
● Perkbox with Employee Assistance Programme
● 2 Volunteering days annually