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New Head of Customer Operations role at Phorest — leading support and onboarding teams across UKI, focused on people leadership, operational excellence, and scaling at pace. This is a senior regional leadership role with the opportunity to shape, scale, and continuously improve the technical customer experience across the UK & Ireland.
Job Responsibility:
Define, lead, and execute the regional strategy for technical customer operations across the UK & Ireland
Lead and optimise high-volume customer-facing functions including Support, Onboarding, Pay Ops, Feature Activation, and Data Migration
Implement and locally optimise global SOPs, standards, and customer experience playbooks
Drive operational excellence through strong analytical rigour, process compliance, and continuous improvement
Build, lead, and develop a high-performing regional leadership team
Own and drive regional performance against key metrics such as time-to-go-live, time-to-first-value, support resolution times, and SGH
Act as the primary regional stakeholder for customer operations tooling and technology adoption
Partner closely with Customer Success, Product, Engineering, and other regional leaders
Serve as the regional customer advocate, surfacing high-impact technical friction points
Requirements:
Senior customer operations leader with 5+ years’ experience leading Customer Support and/or Operations teams in a SaaS or technology-driven environment
Experienced in driving software adoption through onboarding, technical support, and operational process excellence
Comfortable leading leaders and managing complex, multi-team operational environments
Highly analytical and process-oriented, with a proven track record of improving efficiency, quality, and scalability
A strong cross-functional collaborator with excellent stakeholder management skills across technical and commercial teams
A clear, confident communicator who can engage both technical and non-technical audiences
Adaptable, pragmatic, and comfortable operating in ambiguity and change
Nice to have:
Experience in the Hair & Beauty industry
What we offer:
Private healthcare
2 Wellness Days
Employee assistance program
Free online GP service
Competitive Compensation
Employee Share Purchase Scheme
Pension
Life Assurance
Income Protection
Bike to work scheme
Tax saver transport tickets
2 weeks leave for Fertility Treatment, Pregnancy Loss and Menopause
Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Benefits
Great learning environment and extensive development opportunities
Development programs
Access to many online resources including LinkedIn learning