Head of Strategic Accounts

Full Time
  • February 5, 2026
  • Employment Info

    Your main duties will include:

    Own and grow key strategic accounts

    • Personally manage our largest enterprise client (currently generating over £22 million in annual revenue, and managed by the COO)
    • Lead commercial growth plans, pricing discussions, and strategic planning
    • Act as a trusted advisor to C-suite stakeholders, delivering compelling, data-led insights and clear commercial recommendations
    • Represent client needs internally, influencing cross-functional teams to deliver against evolving client goals.

    Lead the Account Management Function

    • With the team, establish clear goals, KPIs, and review cadences to drive performance and accountability
    • Work closely with the team to help them develop their accounts through commercial growth plans, pricing discussions, and strategic planning
    • Foster a collaborative, feedback-driven team culture rooted in ownership, trust, and transparency
    • Support team members with training, mentoring, and hands-on involvement in complex client challenges.

    Design and implement operational excellence

    • Improve reporting, forecasting, and health scoring to support commercial decision-making
    • Champion CRM discipline (HubSpot) and commercial data insights (Quicksight and other tools)
    • Continuously refine internal workflows, collaborating across product, compliance, operations, and finance to deliver outstanding client experiences.

    Define Success throughout Outcomes

    • Drive TPV growth from strategic accounts
    • Maintain high client satisfaction and retention (strong NPS and relationships)
    • Build and maintain a high-performing, scalable account management team
    • Embed scalable AM processes throughout the business
    • Position Account Management as the internal voice of the customer and a strategic commercial partner.

    You are a perfect fit if you have:

    • Proven experience managing £10M+ enterprise accounts, with full commercial ownership
    • Experience directly managing and growing a team of Account Managers or Client Success professionals.
    • Strong track record of revenue expansion and retention through structured account planning
    • Confidence working with C-suite stakeholders and presenting complex commercial strategies clearly
    • High technical fluency and the ability to quickly understand payment flows, integrations, and platform mechanics
    • Strong organisational discipline, with a bias toward ownership, execution, and clarity
    • Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous, and globally distributed environment.

    Preferred

    • Experience in fintech, B2B payments
    • Familiarity with mobile money ecosystems, telcos, or financial services across Africa
    • Proficiency in CRM and analytics tools (e.g. HubSpot, Quicksight, ClickUp).

     

     

     

     

     

     

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