Customer Success Executive – Maternity Leave Cover

Role Overview

This role provides maternity leave cover for a Customer Success Executive within the Exactaform Customer Success team. The successful candidate will manage day‑to‑day CS activity across defined customer accounts, ensuring continuity of service, reliable execution, and proactive customer engagement throughout the maternity leave period. The role plays a key role in customer retention, reorders, and internal coordination. It requires strong organisation, a proactive mindset with clear ownership, and confidence working across customers, suppliers, systems, and internal teams.

• Customer & Account Management: Act as the primary day‑to‑day point of contact for allocated Exactaform customer accounts; manage customer enquiries, quotes, orders, and delivery coordination; maintain proactive communication to support stable customer retention, repeat ordering, and minimal complaints; ensure a consistent, professional customer experience during the maternity cover period.
• Widia Ordering & Sales Support: Handle quoting and order processing for Widia products within the Customer Success remit; identify opportunities to upsell or cross‑sell where appropriate to support account growth; apply commercial awareness within agreed pricing frameworks; ensure all Widia‑related customer interactions, orders, and sales opportunities are accurately recorded in Hub Spot.
• Internal Coordination & Order Progression: Work alongside the external sales team and coordinate with internal teams to ensure customer orders progress smoothly from enquiry through to delivery; proactively chase internal teams where required to maintain delivery commitments; identify and escalat[e] risks to delivery or customer satisfaction at an early stage.
• Stock & Supplier Ordering Support: Support stock ordering activity with suppliers where required to fulfil customer demand; liaise with suppliers to confirm availability, lead times, and order status; ensure supplier‑related activity supports customer delivery expectations and internal planning.
• Systems, CRM & Data Accuracy: Accurately log customer interactions, orders, and activity in Hub Spot; maintain high data quality to support live dashboards and management reporting; understand the direct impact of individual accuracy on business visibility and decision‑making.
• Annual Leave Cover – Sales Administrator (Limited Scope): Provide short‑term cover for sales order entry, raising invoices, raising POs and works orders, chasing internal teams for progress on relevant orders, and chasing suppliers for updates on relevant orders.

• Experience in Customer Success, Account Management, Sales Support, or a similar commercial support role.
• Confident communicating with customers via phone and email in a professional and proactive manner.
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Confidence managing multiple customer and internal priorities.
• Comfortable managing order, invoice, and CRM‑related activity accurately.
• Comfortable working with CRM systems (Hub Spot experience desirable).
• Desirable (but not essential): experience within manufacturing, tooling, or engineering environments; exposure to supplier coordination or stock‑related activity.

• Customers experience uninterrupted, professional service during the maternity leave period.
• Orders and enquiries are handled accurately and efficiently.
• Risks to delivery or satisfaction are identified early and managed effectively.
• CRM data remains accurate, supporting reliable business reporting.
• The Customer Success team operates smoothly without unnecessary escalation.

This role is offered as a fixed‑term maternity cover contract. However, depending on business needs and individual performance, there may be the potential for the role to develop into a permanent position at the end of the contract.

Fixed term contract

12 months

£30,000.00 – £35,000.00 per year

• Canteen
• Free parking
• On‑site gym
• On‑site parking
• Work from home

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