Customer Experience Manager - Dutch or Swedish Speaking

Location: London, the UK or Lisbon, Portugal

About the Department

Renewals Account Managers, Customer Success Managers, Account Executives, Business Development Representatives, Solution Engineers, and Sales Operations - all working together help our customers adopt Cloudflare and create great Internet-enabled experiences.

The sales team at Cloudflare helps customers solve real, technical problems while creating the revenue streams that help the company provide free service to millions in our community.

What You’ll Do

The Customer Experience Manager leads the post-sale customer journey, managing everything from onboarding to long-term retention and contract renewals. Acting as both a trusted business advisor and a commercial owner of the account, you will build strategic relationships with stakeholders to clearly articulate ROI and business value and ultimately successfully close renewals maximizing upsells and minimizing churn. You will collaborate tightly with the Sales team to maintain accurate weekly forecasts and contribute to critical engagements like Executive Business Reviews. In addition, you will embed AI-driven optimization into your daily workflows—using advanced data analysis to uncover selling opportunities and automating routine tasks to accelerate customer outcomes and maximize operational efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

Customer Lifecycle & Success

• Manage customer engagement across the entire customer lifecycle, from onboarding through renewal.

• Be a Trusted Advisor to your customers by helping them adopt the Cloudflare products and services to meet their needs and make them successful

• Work with your account teams to plan and execute long term Success Plans with our largest customers to facilitate retention and growth via product and new business unit expansion.

• Maintain a deep understanding of our solutions and present to customers about the most relevant features/functionality for their specific business needs.

• Own or be an active participant in several customer touch points including: Business Value Justification meetings, Business Reviews, and Renewal Meetings, with a track record of successful planning and execution of Executive Business Reviews.

• Demonstrate how your customer engagement directly impacts revenue growth and adoption of Cloudflare solutions and services.

Commercial & Renewals

• You are ultimately responsible for the retention and growth of your book of business. You will own and drive the renewal including maintaining and reporting an accurate weekly forecast.

• Negotiate and execute renewal contracts in accordance with customer objectives.

• You will be an expert in deal construction and pricing strategy. You will directly be designing renewals to create a win-win for customers and Cloudflare.

• Analyze data and leverage tools to identify selling opportunities and business value.

• Drive strong alignment with the Sales team, contributing to team forecasting, planning, and targets.

Cross-Functional & Operational Management

• Develop and maintain long-term relationships with stakeholders in your account portfolio.

• Work cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Support, Marketing and other teams to resolve customer business issues and work towards each customer’s stated goals.

• Manage customer feedback and product needs by providing feature requests to internal partner teams.

• Able to prioritize effectively to handle multiple deals at the same time.

AI Competencies

• Generative AI: Mastery of LLMs to rapidly draft renewal communications, synthesize quarterly review data, and prepare executive summaries.

• Data Analysis: Proficiency in leveraging AI analytics tools to parse customer usage metrics and instantly highlight up-sell or cross-sell opportunities.

• Workflow Automation: Ability to build automations to synchronize CRM data, update weekly forecasts, and trigger lifecycle alerts.

• AI Problem Solving: The instinct to view AI as a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward.

Qualifications

• Fluency in English AND Dutch or Swedish (written and spoken).

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a Customer Success/Account Management role or Inside or Field sales.

• 2+ years of industry experience, with experience in cloud security and/or performance industries preferred.

• Bachelor's degree and/or other professional qualifications.

• Direct experience in commercial sales, negotiation, and deal closure.

• Strong understanding of or willingness to learn about computer networking and “how the internet works,” with network security a plus.

• Manage and prioritize competing portfolio demands, aligning internal resources with the highest-impact commercial and retention goals

• Expertise in SaaS retention and sales process and excellent knowledge of value driven sales.

• Excellent problem solving skills with the ability to creatively achieve resolutions.

Compensation

● For Portugal based hires: Estimated annual salary is between €50,000 - €69,000.

• The final offer will be inclusive of time exemption, in alignment with the applicable law and collective bargaining agreements.

This role is eligible to earn incentive compensation under Cloudflare’s Sales Compensation Plan. The estimated annual salary range includes the on-target incentive compensation that may be attained in this role under the Sales Compensation Plan.

Equity

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.