Eleanor Whitcombe — Customer Success Manager
Bristol
Customer success manager looking after a £9M book of mid-market SaaS accounts, seven years in the discipline either side of a year as a full-time carer. Took gross renewal from 81% to 94% by replacing ad-hoc onboarding with a fixed ninety-day plan.
Experience
Customer Success Manager, Brackenford Software · March 2024 – present
Owns 38 mid-market retail and hospitality accounts worth £9M in annual recurring revenue.
- Lifted gross renewal from 81% to 94% in two years by replacing ad-hoc onboarding with a fixed ninety-day plan and one named success milestone per account.
- Grew the book by £1.3M of expansion revenue, 61% of it traced to a usage report that flags accounts nearing their licence ceiling.
- Defined the seven churn signals now built into the health score; of 16 accounts flagged red in 2025, 12 were saved.
- Runs the quarterly business review programme for the segment, which 34 of 38 accounts now attend at director level or above.
Full-time carer, Career break · February 2023 – February 2024
Twelve months away from work as the primary carer for a parent recovering from a stroke.
- Completed the CCXP certification and two SQL courses during the break.
Customer Success Manager, Cheswick Retail Systems · June 2020 – January 2023
- Carried 52 accounts through a change of pricing model, retaining 49 of them and organising 11 multi-year renewals.
- Cut average time to first value from 71 days to 34 by pre-building the three reports every new customer asked for.
- Set up the monthly churn post-mortem with product and support; four of the six causes it surfaced were fixed within two releases.
Account Support Analyst, Dunstan Logistics · September 2018 – May 2020
- Handled 60 accounts on a shared queue and wrote the escalation matrix that halved the issues reaching the operations director.
Education
- BSc Business Administration · University of Bath · September 2015 – June 2018
Skills
- Retention: Onboarding design, Health scoring, Renewal negotiation, Churn analysis, QBR facilitation
- Growth: Expansion forecasting, Usage reporting, Executive relationships, Reference programmes
- Systems: Gainsight, Salesforce, SQL, Looker, Zendesk
Certifications
- Certified Customer Experience Professional (CCXP) — CXPA
- ITIL 4 Foundation — PeopleCert
