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  • Posted: May 1, 2026
    Deadline: May 13, 2026
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    Rose Avenue Consulting Group is a financial management, strategy and consulting firm that combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in corporate finance, strategy and research. Together with our clients and partnering companies we address our client’s most critical issues and challenges. RACG aims to provide a globally consistent set o...
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    Group Head of Customer Success

    Job Responsibilities

    Customer Success Strategy & Unified Operating Model

    • Design and own the Customer Success strategy across all five markets, aligned to commercial targets and brand positioning.
    • Build a single, standardised Customer Success engine covering service principles, journey standards, SLAs, escalation paths, and quality benchmarks, deliberately localised to meet the needs of each market.
    • Drive a shared set of practices across countries to ensure consistent experience quality whether in Lagos, Accra, Nairobi, Kampala, or Kigali.

    Employer Retention, Repeat Demand & Wallet-Share Expansion

    • Design the employer experience from onboarding through renewal, focusing on time-to-value, turnaround time, and repeat demand.
    • Partner with Commercial Operations and Country Managing Directors to convert Customer Success performance into measurable retention, repeat business, and Net Revenue Retention (NRR).
    • Identify warm leads and recurring demand patterns from post-placement insight and hand off to Commercial Operations and Country Managing Directors to convert.
    • Own QBRs, proactive talent pipeline updates for recurring hiring needs, and executive-level employer recovery where required.

    Seeker Lifetime Value & Re-Placement

    • Ensure seekers placed today return to the organisation for their second, third, and fourth role across their careers.
    • Deliver re-engagement, progression, and career-ladder experiences that drive seeker re-placement across blue-collar to light blue to white-collar progression.
    • Own seeker activation as a core metric, turning registered seekers into active applicants through self-service, help content, nudges, and automated support, in coordination with Marketing on digital seeker demand.
    • Lead continuous improvement of seeker support channels to scale quality without scaling cost linearly.

    Voice of Customer & Feedback into Matching, ICPs, and Product

    • Use frontline insight to identify where ICPs are or are not fulfillable, where match quality is degrading, and where strategy needs to be updated.
    • Provide VoC and frontline insight to the Head of Matching to refine ICPs over time, playing a consultative role on demand-side ICPs while owning seeker-side experience design.
    • Stand up a regional VoC programme (NPS, CSAT, CES, churn diagnostics, exit interviews) and convert insight into prioritised action across Matching, Product, and Commercial Operations.

    Customer Success Decision Rights

    • Approve CS-side SLA commitments to ensure that service commitments made by Commercial are deliverable by in-country CS teams.
    • Lead recovery interventions for at-risk strategic accounts.
    • Govern the playbook for at-risk customer churn recovery.

    Programs Partnership

    • Feed employer demand signals and seeker frontline insight into programme design, curriculum, skills development, and pipeline readiness.
    • Ensure frontline learnings shape programme delivery and impact measurement across all five markets.

    Team Leadership & Country Operations

    • Lead in-country CX teams and contact centre operations across Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda on a solid-line basis.
    • Set staffing models, shift patterns, capacity plans, and quality assurance frameworks, balancing service quality with cost-to-serve.
    • Coach country CX leads, build a strong regional bench, and foster a high-performance, customer-obsessed culture.

    Technology, Tools & Automation

    • Own the CRM, ticketing, telephony, chat, knowledge base, quality monitoring, and workforce management platforms across all five markets.
    • Identify and deploy automation, self-service, and AI-assisted support to improve response times, resolution rates, and cost-to-serve.

    Other Requirements

    • Bachelor's Degree required; postgraduate qualification (MBA or equivalent) is an advantage.
    • Minimum 10 years of experience in Customer Success, Customer Experience, or Customer Operations, with at least 4 years in a senior leadership role.
    • Experience in a two-sided marketplace or platform business is essential, including recruiting platforms, staffing/workforce businesses, gig marketplaces, or B2B/B2C platforms with strong repeat-buyer dynamics.
    • Track record of owning a revenue line or NRR target, not just partnering with commercial teams, but carrying a commercial number.
    • Proven track record leading Customer Success or service operations across multiple African markets (Pan-African or multi-country experience is essential).
    • Demonstrable experience managing contact centre operations, including workforce management, quality assurance, and telephony/CRM platforms.
    • Experience managing and developing distributed teams of 50+ across multiple geographies.

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    Group Head of Commercial Operations

    Job Responsibilities

    Commercial Operating System

    • Design and coordinate the sales operating model, including sales plays, deal stages, qualification criteria, conversion targets, and the deal review SOP across all five markets.
    • Manage pricing and packaging architecture across product lines including online, hybrid, placements, success fees, subscription, talent pool access, and workforce services.
    • Manage commercial infrastructure covering CRM, pipeline tooling, commercial reporting, forecast cadence, and deal economics.

    Cross-Sell & Upsell Engine

    • Design and own the engine that expands wallet share within existing accounts as the organisation's product ladder evolves.
    • Equip country teams with plays, packaging, pricing, and incentives that Country Managing Directors and country sales teams execute against.
    • Coordinate pipeline visibility to ensure online customers feed leads into hybrid and placement upsell motions, and placement customers feed into workforce services.

    Sales Enablement & Productivity

    • Own enablement including training, certification, sales materials, and competitive intelligence.
    • Drive commercial productivity per head by managing and improving close rates, deal cycle time, and pricing realisation.
    • Set commercial standards including productivity benchmarks, deal hygiene, and pipeline discipline across countries.

    Decision Rights

    • Approve commercial commitments including pricing, packaging, and non-standard deal approvals across markets.
    • Coordinate cross-country and multi-market accounts where a single customer touches more than one market.
    • Set deal review and discount approval thresholds within which Country Managing Directors operate.

    Cross-Functional Coordination

    • Partner with Country Managing Directors as system owner enabling in-market execution, running the weekly and monthly commercial cadence.
    • Coordinate with the Head of Matching on deal feasibility, capacity allocation, and ICP operationalisation into commercial plays.
    • Partner with the Head of Customer Success on warm-lead handoff, account expansion, and retention-driven revenue.
    • Collaborate with Marketing on demand generation, lead quality, and conversion optimisation.
    • Work with Product on commercial integration of new features and pricing model evolution.

    Other Requirements

    • Bachelor's degree required; postgraduate qualification (MBA or equivalent) is an advantage.
    • Minimum 12 years of experience in Commercial/Revenue Operations, Sales Operations, or commercial leadership.
    • Track record designing and running a multi-market commercial operating system.
    • Experience with B2B sales operations in marketplace, recruiting, SaaS, or platform businesses.
    • Pricing and packaging architecture experience is essential — has designed pricing models, not just executed them.
    • Experience with workforce services and staffing commercial models is a strong advantage.
    • Pan-African or multi-country experience is essential.

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to Rose Avenue Group on www.racg.co.ke to apply

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