Senior Program Manager - Customer Operations

Phorest Software; Dublin; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software company in Dublin seeks a Senior Program Manager of Customer Operations to enhance customer onboarding and support. The role requires project management experience, strong analytical skills, and the ability to collaborate across global teams. This is a unique opportunity for detail-oriented professionals who thrive in dynamic settings. The position offers competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits designed for employee wellbeing.

Benefits

Private healthcare

Employee Share Purchase Scheme

Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Benefits

Development opportunities

Wellness Days

Qualifications

• Project management experience is a must.
• Customer obsessed with strong communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with global teams.

Responsibilities

• Drive scalable excellence in customer operations.
• Elevate onboarding and support functions.
• Champion a data-driven, customer-centric mindset.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional leadership

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Problem-solving skills

Job description

About Phorest

Would you like to create the future of a product used by thousands of businesses and millions of consumers? Phorest Salon Software powers over 11,000 hair and beauty salons in Ireland, UK, Germany, Australia, Finland, USA, Canada, UAE and Netherlands and the platform processes 7 million appointments a month for hair and beauty consumers. Phorest is the number 1 salon software brand for premium independent salons in those markets and our next goal is to become a platform upon which other companies can build applications for premium salons.

Our system touches every point of the salon experience. We have the in-salon software desktop application, Phorest Go (the native staff application), online bookings website for salons, and custom native apps per salon. In a typical month, Phorest processes 3 million appointments and we send over 3 million SMS and 4 million emails. We process 200k online bookings per month and over 150 custom built white label native apps.

The Opportunity

This is a senior individual contributor role with a global remit, cross-functional influence, and ownership of strategic initiatives. As Senior Program Manager of Customer Operations, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring our post-sale customer onboarding and support functions run smoothly and scale effectively. You will be part of the Global Customer Operations team working cross-functionally with our support and onboarding leaders, to enable regional teams to optimize processes, and enhance the customer journey globally.

You will support regional teams by streamlining workflows, driving the adoption of best practices, and delivering change projects based on actionable insights to enhance the customer experience. These areas cover all aspects of customer operations, which are customer support, customer enablement, education, onboarding, data migrations, data entry, and complex feature activation (Ads and Apps).

This is an exciting role for a dynamic, detail-oriented professional who thrives on solving problems, managing projects, and collaborating across global teams to deliver impact.

What You'll Do

• Drive Scalable Excellence in Customer Operations
• Elevate onboarding and support functions to handle growth without friction.
• Ensure global consistency while supporting regional nuance.
• Be the “Efficiency Engine” Behind Customer Success
• Own and deliver continuous improvement projects.
• Streamline workflows and ensure tooling is enabling—not blocking—teams.
• Bridge Global Strategy with Regional Execution
• Collect insights from frontline teams and regions.
• Translate that into process, tooling, and experience improvements across the customer journey.
• Champion a Data-Driven, Customer-Centric Mindset
• Monitor NPS, CES, SGH, TTGL.
• Build insights into actionable operational change.

Who You Are

• Project management experience is a must with a focus on opening and driving change projects to close
• Ability to lead cross-functional projects to ensure initiatives are delivered on time and meet quality standards
• Customer obsessed
• Ability to define clear objectives, timelines, and deliverables
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to deliver results
• Experience dealing with a range of stakeholders across multiple locations, globally
• Strong communication skills
• Passion and understanding of our customers, and their challenges and the ability to spot opportunities to improve the experience
• Ability to work autonomously
• Be a disruptor - constantly question existing processes and work with stakeholders on ideas and explore ways to improve for our customers and our teams.
• An understanding of software development, CRM tooling and high level technical knowledge is nice to have as this role will involve partnering with our Business Systems and Product teams.

Benefits

Your wellbeing is important to us - we provide private healthcare, 2 Wellness Days, an employee assistance program and a free online GP service.

As part of our Financial Wellbeing, we provide competitive Compensation, an Employee Share Purchase Scheme, Pension, Life Assurance, and Income Protection.

We support the women who work in Phorest by offering 2 weeks leave for Fertility Treatment, Pregnancy Loss and Menopause.

We care for your family and provide Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Benefits.

We grow our own timber! We provide a great learning environment and extensive development opportunities. We run development programs and provide access to many online resources including LinkedIn learning.

Moving house? Phorest employees get 3 moving days.

Want to learn more about Phorest? Check out nothingventured.rocks for our blog and Insights on building an evergreen company from the team here at Phorest.

Phorest is an equal opportunities employer. We value diversity at our company and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Research shows that while men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other marginalized folks tend to only apply when they check every box. So if you think you have what it takes, but don\'t necessarily meet every single point on the job description, please still get in touch. We\'d love to have a chat and see if you could be a great fit.