Client Experience Manager

Sabenza IT & Recruitment; Kou-Kamma Local Municipality; On-site; ZAR 420,000 - 660,000; Full time

Job summary

Sabenza IT & Recruitment seeks a Client Experience Manager to own client journeys, retention and revenue growth in a financial-services FX environment. Build relationships with clients and banking partners, streamline the client journey, retain and grow accounts, and bring in new referrals and cross-sales.

This is a commercial relationship role focusing on both retention and revenue-generation, not solely customer service.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years in foreign exchange.
• Client-facing experience in relationship management, business development or financial services.
• RE5 (Representative) and RE1 (Key Individual) required or advantageous, depending on duties.
• Sound knowledge of the South African financial-services environment, FX products, competitors, retention, SLAs and compliance.
• English and Afrikaans.
• Strong negotiation, stakeholder management, numeracy and commercial drive.

Responsibilities

• Act as the point of contact between clients, banking partners and internal teams, and resolve service issues before they escalate.
• Run relationship health checks, improve retention and satisfaction, and identify cross-sell that fits client needs.
• Acquire new clients and referral partners, build a pipeline, and meet agreed sales and revenue targets.
• Review the client journey, streamline processes, and feed recurring issues back to the right teams.
• Keep process documentation current, aligned to policy, partner SLAs and financial-services regulation, and escalate compliance risk.
• Report to senior management on retention, satisfaction, pipeline and targets.
• Train internal teams on client and partner requirements.
• Lead negotiations and finalise agreements within policy and regulatory standards.

Job description

We are seeking a Client Experience Manager to own client experience, stakeholder relationships, retention and revenue growth in a financial-services, foreign-exchange environment. Build relationships with clients and banking partners, improve the client journey, retain and grow accounts, and bring in new clients, referrals and cross-sales. Keep client-facing processes documented, compliant and consistently followed.

This is a commercial relationship role, not a customer-service-only position. Candidates should show both retention and revenue-generation experience.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the point of contact between clients, banking partners and internal teams, and resolve service issues before they escalat.
• Run relationship health checks, improve retention and satisfaction, and identify cross-sell that fits client needs.
• Acquire new clients and referral partners, build a pipeline, and meet agreed sales and revenue targets.
• Review the client journey, streamline processes, and feed recurring issues back to the right teams.
• Keep process documentation current, aligned to policy, partner SLAs and financial-services regulation, and escalat compliance risk.
• Report to senior management on retention, satisfaction, pipeline and targets.
• Train internal teams on client and partner requirements.
• Lead negotiations and finalise agreements within policy and regulatory standards.

Key Requirements

• At least 3 years in foreign exchange.
• Client-facing experience in relationship management, business development or financial services.
• RE5 (Representative) and RE1 (Key Individual) required or advantageous, depending on duties.
• Sound knowledge of the South African financial-services environment, FX products, competitors, retention, SLAs and compliance.
• English and Afrikaans.
• Strong negotiation, stakeholder management, numeracy and commercial drive.