Customer Success Manager (Coaching & Enablement)

IRIS; Manchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

IRIS, Manchester-based, is seeking a Performance Lead for Customer Success and Renewals to drive a proactive, value-led approach. You will coach managers and frontline staff to improve customer conversations, adoption, and retention while turning insights into practical actions.

Working across Customer Success and Renewals, you’ll develop coaching guides, playbooks, and training plans in collaboration with L&D, measured by improved outcomes and customer value.

Qualifications

• Experience in customer success enablement and coaching.
• Ability to translate performance data into actionable guidance.
• Strong collaboration with managers and L&D.

Responsibilities

• Coach CS and Renewals colleagues to improve conversations and outcomes.
• Develop practical coaching plans and playbooks for teams.
• Use data to identify patterns and guide action across teams.

Skills

Coaching

Enablement

Customer Success

Renewals

Performance metrics

Job description

About IRIS

IRIS Software Group is one of the UK’s largest privately held software companies, trusted by 100,000+ businesses, schools and accountancy firms to keep their operations running. Our software pays 1 in 6 UK employees, supports over 12,000 schools, and is relied on by 91 of the top 100 UK accountancy firms.

We’re a Great Place to Work® certified employer, recognised for our commitment to well-being, inclusion and development - and we’re growing fast.

At IRIS, we build software that helps organisations work smarter, save time, stay compliant, and achieve more.

Our customers rely on our products every day, and our Customer Success and Renewals teams play a key role in helping them get value, stay engaged, and continue their partnership with us.

We’re now looking for a Performance Lead - Customer Success & Renewals to help our teams continue moving from a more reactive, ticket-based way of working to a more proactive, outcome-led and commercially confident approach.

This is a hands-on coaching and enablement role.

You won’t be line managing the team. Instead, you'll be visible with our Customer Success Managers and Renewals Specialists, helping people understand what good looks like, improve customer conversations, build confidence, and turn the right behaviours into everyday habits.

You’ll work closely with managers, leaders, and Learning & Development to help make performance improvement practical, clear, and consistent.

Why This Role Matters

Great Customer Success is about more than answering queries or closing tickets.

It is about understanding what the customer is trying to achieve, helping them get value from our products, spotting risk early, building strong relationships, and supporting retention and renewal.

That shift takes coaching, consistency, and reinforcement.

That’s where you come in.

You’ll help our teams build the confidence, skills, and commercial awareness needed to have better customer conversations and drive better outcomes.

You’ll help people understand:

• what good customer ownership looks like

• how to move from reactive support to proactive value-led conversations

• how to spot customer risk and act early

• how to talk confidently about adoption, value, retention and renewal

• how to use performance feedback in a constructive way

• how to build stronger habits around activity, follow-up and customer outcomes

Simply put, you'll help make the change happen on the office floor.

About the Team You’ll Join

You’ll work across our Customer Success and Renewals teams, supporting colleagues who are focused on helping customers stay engaged, get value from IRIS products, and continue their partnership with us.

You’ll partner closely with:

• Customer Success Managers

• Renewals Specialists

• Frontline Managers

• Customer Success Leaders

• Renewals Leaders

• Learning & Development

• Senior Customer Success stakeholders

This role is about being close to the team, understanding what is happening day to day, and helping managers and colleagues turn performance goals into practical action.

What You’ll Be Doing

No two weeks will look exactly the same.

One day you might be sitting with a Customer Success Manager to review how they approached a customer conversation.

The next, you might be helping a Renewals Specialist build confidence around a commercial discussion, supporting a new starter with their ramp plan, or working with a manager to reinforce consistent expectations across their team.

You might listen to calls, review CRM activity, look at performance trends, share best practice, or coach someone through how to handle a difficult customer situation.

Your focus will include:

Coaching Customer Success and Renewals colleagues

You’ll provide practical, supportive coaching to help people improve their performance, confidence and customer conversations.

You’ll help colleagues understand what good looks like, where they can improve, and what actions they can take straight away.

This could include coaching around customer ownership, renewal conversations, adoption, value, risk, follow-up, objection handling, call quality, activity levels or customer engagement.

Helping the team move from ticket-led to outcome-led

You’ll help reinforce the shift from simply responding to customer requests to taking ownership of customer outcomes.

That means encouraging people to think beyond the immediate query and ask:

• What is the customer trying to achieve?

• Are they getting value from the product?

• Is there a risk we need to act on?

• What action should we take next?

• How do we support retention and renewal?

You’ll help make this mindset clear, practical and consistent across the team.

Supporting managers

You won’t be there to replace managers, but you will help them land the message.

You’ll work with frontline managers to reinforce expectations, share themes, support coaching conversations, and help build consistency across teams.

You may support managers with performance check-ins, new starter progress, quality reviews, or practical coaching plans for colleagues who need extra help.

Supporting new starters

You’ll help new colleagues ramp up successfully by giving them practical support, guidance and feedback.

You’ll work with managers and L&D to understand where new starters are progressing well and where they may need more help.

You’ll also feed back any common themes that could improve onboarding, training or early-stage support.

Using data and insight to guide action

You don’t need to be a data analyst, but you do need to be comfortable using performance information to spot patterns and focus your coaching.

This could include CRM activity, call quality, customer feedback, renewal progress, customer health, activity levels, target progress, new starter ramp, or manager feedback.

The key is being able to turn insight into simple, practical action.

Sharing best practice

You’ll help create consistency by spotting what is working well and sharing it across teams.

That might mean helping build coaching guides, call examples, conversation prompts, playbooks, checklists, or simple best-practice resources that help people do the job better.

What We’re Looking For

We’re less interested in job titles and more interested in relevant experience.

You may currently be, or have previously been, a:

• Customer Success Manager

• Senior Customer Success Manager

• Renewals Manager

• Senior Renewals Specialist

• Account Manager

• Senior Account Manager

• Customer Success Team Leader

• Renewals Team Leader

• Customer Success Coach

• Customer Success Enablement Specialist

• Sales Enablement Specialist

• Commercial Enablement Specialist

• Customer Experience Coach

• Performance Coach

This could be a great move if