Looking for a senior customer or commercial leadership role combining strategic relationships, customer outcomes, retention, growth and people leadership. I’m drawn to commercially accountable CS/AM teams closely aligned with Product and Sales. Remote-first preferred, with flexibility to travel.
Claire McNee
@clairemcnee
Senior customer and commercial leader exploring remote roles across Customer Success, Account Management, Customer Growth and Strategic Accounts.
What I'm looking for
Commercial customer leader with 20+ years’ experience building trusted enterprise relationships, leading high-performing teams and driving retention, expansion and long-term customer value.
My background spans Customer Success, Account Management, strategic accounts and client services across SaaS, technology and managed services. I’m particularly strong at understanding customer objectives, translating them into clear priorities, and bringing cross-functional teams together to deliver measurable outcomes for both the customer and the business.
I’ve led Customer Success and Account Management teams, owned commercial performance across multi-million-pound customer bases, built and reshaped customer operating models, improved forecasting and risk visibility, and worked closely with senior stakeholders on complex accounts and growth opportunities.
I’m now exploring senior remote opportunities across Customer Success, Account Management, Customer Growth, Strategic Accounts and broader commercial customer leadership.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Led a 12-person CS team across SMB and Enterprise, with oversight of an £8m–£10m ARR base. Owned forecasting, commercial risk, retention and expansion, redesigned the customer ownership model, improved forecasting efficiency, and acted as senior escalation point for complex strategic accounts.
Led commercial ownership across the customer base, covering renewals, upsell, cross-sell, risk and growth. Built the Renewals function from scratch, including role design, forecasting, reporting and training, and coached Account Managers to become more strategic and commercially accountable.
Owned commercial relationships for 30–40 enterprise customers worth around £2m ARR. Led renewals, upsells and cross-sells, built senior stakeholder relationships and translated customer objectives into account strategies that connected product value with retention and growth.
Commercial Director
Pursuit Marketing
Aug 2021 - Nov 2021 (3 months)
Moved into a direct commercial role to take Pursuit’s insourcing proposition to market, managing customer relationships and the sales process from discovery through proposal, commercial agreement and handover to delivery.
Operations Director
Pursuit Marketing
Sep 2020 - Aug 2021 (11 months)
Reported to the Board and led UK operations across Account Management, Telemarketing and Marketing, with responsibility for c.85 people. Oversaw customer delivery, retention, growth and team performance, keeping operational delivery aligned to customer
commitments and commercial goals.
Senior Client Partner
Chess ICT
Jan 2020 - Sep 2020 (8 months)
Owned enterprise customer relationships across technology and managed services, managing accounts from sales and onboarding through delivery, renewal and growth.
Built account strategies around customer objectives and worked with Consultancy and Development teams to shape solutions, resolve issues and identify expansion opportunities.
Returned to INCo in a newly created senior role combining strategic client ownership with operational leadership, reporting to the Board. Managed key accounts, led teams of 20-40 across inside sales and digital functions, and aligned customer strategy, campaign delivery, resourcing and commercial priorities with business goals.
Managing Consultant, Customer Ops
Hudson
Mar 2018 - Oct 2018 (7 months)
Set up and delivered high-volume recruitment campaigns, combining client management, project delivery and team leadership. Managed senior stakeholders, directly led a team of 15, and oversaw suppliers, performance, budgets and campaign profitability.
pent almost 14 years managing client relationships and campaigns for major technology and consultancy organisations in the UK and internationally. Acted as lead client contact, translated complex customer requirements into practical campaign strategies, identified growth opportunities, managed risk and maintained long-term customer relationships.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
University of Strathclyde
Bachelor of Arts, Marketing
2000 - 2004
Grade: 2:1
Earned a BA (Hons) in Marketing with a 2:1 classification.
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