Customer Success Consultant

Liquid Thought

Pretoria

On-site

ZAR 360,000 - 540,000

Full time

5 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Market-related package
Visible impact on how schools run
Role with cross-education customer-sus

Job summary

Liquid Thought Group in Gauteng, Pretoria seeks a Customer Success Consultant to own the relationship with a portfolio of schools and drive adoption, retention and expansion.

You will act as the accountable point for each school, stabilising relationships first, then retaining and growing them, before passing qualified leads to Sales. Reports to the Team Lead: Customer Success and will visit schools on-site.

Qualifications

  • 2–4 years in a customer-facing role in SaaS/technology.
  • Experience with retention, renewal and expansion conversations.
  • Comfortable working with usage reports, adoption metrics and health scores.
  • Strong written and verbal communication with a commercial mindset.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain proactive engagement cadence with every school in your portfolio with structured reviews.
  • Build relationships with principals, heads of departments, bursars and school bodies.
  • Monitor usage and health data; run targeted training and education sessions.
  • Own net revenue retention; manage renewals from month 10 and address churn early.
  • Identify cross-sell/upsell opportunities and pass nurtured leads to Sales.
  • Keep Zoho CRM records accurate; provide weekly engagement and expansion reports.
  • Visit schools on-site typically around eight hours per week.

Skills

Customer success
Account management
SaaS experience
Data-driven
Communication skills

Education

Matric or equivalent (high school)
Diploma or certificate in business/sales/CRM (advantage)

Tools

Zoho CRM
Desk
Projects

Job description

About the job Customer Success Consultant
Customer Success Consultant

Our client, an established South African education technology company, builds a school management platform used by schools across South Africa and a growing number of African markets. They are looking for a Customer Success Consultant to own the relationship with a portfolio of their schools and help lift their customer success practice.

About the Role

You will be the named point of accountability for every school in your portfolio: driving adoption, retention, renewal and expansion through proactive, customer-led engagement. The approach is deliberate: stabilise the relationship first, then retain it, then grow it. You will pass well-qualified, nurtured leads to Sales. The role reports to the Team Lead: Customer Success.

Key Responsibilities
  • Keep a proactive engagement cadence with every school in your portfolio, including structured reviews for high-touch accounts.
  • Build relationships with principals, heads of department, bursars and school governing bodies.
  • Monitor usage and health data, spot adoption gaps and run targeted training and education sessions.
  • Own net revenue retention for your portfolio: manage renewals from month 10 and act on churn risk early.
  • Identify and run cross-sell and upsell conversations once a school is stable, and hand nurtured leads to Sales.
  • Keep Zoho CRM records accurate and report weekly on engagement, health scores and expansion pipeline.
  • Visit schools on site, typically around eight hours a week.
Requirements
  • Matric (a diploma or certificate in business, sales or customer relationship management is an advantage).
  • 2 to 4 years in a customer-facing role in customer success, account management, sales or client services in a SaaS or technology environment.
  • Experience with retention, renewal and expansion conversations, and managing multiple accounts at once.
  • Comfortable with data: usage reports, adoption metrics and health scores.
  • Strong written and verbal communication, and the commercial sense to frame value.
Advantageous
  • Zoho CRM, Desk or Projects.
  • Knowledge of South African school operations, CAPS and NSC.
  • Afrikaans or another South African language.
  • Familiarity with QBR frameworks and sales qualification methods such as BANT or MEDDIC.
What's on Offer
  • A market-related package.
  • A role where customer success method from outside education is valued, and where you can help lift how the team works.
  • Visible impact on how schools run.

Our client will not consider candidates who have already applied to them directly.

If you do not hear back from us within one month, please consider your application unsuccessful. Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are unable to respond to each applicant individually.

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