
Alex Sinson
Senior Customer Success Consultant
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Mobility: Lille, London, ...
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Customer Success expert with 15+ years driving retention and growth for global B2B companies including Microsoft and Bazaarvoice. Proven track record of structuring CS operations, reducing churn, and scaling revenue from existing customer bases. I help organizations become more customer-centric through strategic audits, change management, and team coaching.
Work experience
Founder & Independent Consultant in Customer Success
ACE consultingFreelance
Jun 2022 - Present
4 years 5 months
Paris, France
- Auditing your teams, your processes and your Customer Success operations, we are able to establish an inventory and share with you our bespoke recommendations as well as opportunities for improvement based on your main objectives - whether you're looking to become more customer-centric, or looking to reduce your churn rate, or drive revenue growth from your customer base... we can support you! - Strategic recommendations - we provide bespoke solutions and advice to better support you in your transformation through prioritisation of projects according to the challenges of the organisation, solutions and alternatives to your current processes and operations... - Change management & Deployment - Driving action & Impact, whether it's implementing our strategy or recommendations, helping to meet one of your own or other project-related needs, we'll step in to provide the level of expertise and execution required... - Coaching & Training - Thanks to our change management approach and our coaching methods, we support your teams in adopting new processes and automation essential to the retention and growth of your customers. For example, the coaching we provide around the Value Realisation Framework has borne fruit with several of our clients...
Advisor & Marketing Strategist
Brasserie du Cyclope
Jan 2019 - May 2022
3 years 5 months
Paris Area, France
- Investor & Business Advisor: business positioning, key objectives & top priorities - Go-to-Market Strategy: define the Mission, Branding (audience & communication channels) - Content creation on/offline: website, social networks, leaflets, posters, advertising - Project management and delivery through external partners - Build and Develop a network of influencers locally to drive awareness & sales
VP Client Success
Critizr
Sep 2020 - Mar 2022
1 year 7 months
- Strategic Vision & Change management by structuring CS Operations, Pro Serv and Support teams - Leadership & Transformation to drive teams alignment and execution towards common goals - Improve Collaboration with Sales, Marketing and Product teams through new processes - Hiring & Developing people for maximum impact (Engagement model, coaching, accountability…) - Public Speaking (1to1Monaco, B2B + Client events…) & C-level relationships
Director Search Advertising | Strategic Sales France
Microsoft
Jun 2016 - Oct 2018
2 years 5 months
Paris Area, France
- Develop Business strategy, Define priorities and Communicate effectively to the team for execution: Accts tiering, Portfolio management & growth, Customer & Engagement Plans - Lead a team of 3 AD and 5 AM: operational excellence, nurture towards autonomy & leading projects - Build & Nurture C-level relationships across the advertising ecosystem Advertisers/Agencies/Partners - Teamwork & Collaboration + Influencing Marketing, Business Ops, Product & Engineering and Support teams to support the business strategy and growth targets - Public speaking engagements: Hub Forum, IAB, MS Experiences, SMX
Bazaarvoice
Nov 2011 - Mar 2016
4 years 5 months
Paris Area, France
Managing Director EMEA - Customer Success
Mar 2015 - Mar 2016
1 year 1 month
Paris Area, France
- Develop & Own Retention + Growth plans for the EMEA customer base - Lead re-definition of Roles & Responsibilities with Sales/Marketing/ Prof. Services to improve internal collaboration and Customer Experience, Retention and Growth - Lead CS Management team to execute on customers segmentation and management in Enterprise/Commercial/SMB - Budget & Capacity planning ownership - Build & Nurture C-level relationships across top Customers to strengthen our partnership - Provide executive project oversight & consistency in internal/external communication - Hiring and Coaching, development and mentorship of team members
Client Partner Continental Europe (FR/DACH/Benelux/ES) - Customer Success
Nov 2011 - Mar 2015
3 years 5 months
Paris Area, France
- Set-up and Management of a team of Client Success Directors for Enterprise & Strategic Accounts - Ensure the Client Success team meet their business goals, are provided with guidance, coaching and mentorship and are provided with the relevant opportunities for success - Work to establish cross departmental co-operation or executive buy-in as needed to achieve the goals of the team's portfolio - Support the Sales team in evangelising to and closing new clients for the Enterprise & Strategic portfolio, engaging internal resources - Identify projects and initiatives that will continue to provide opportunities to provide a better service and optimise how Bazaarvoice services its clients - Forecasting upsells/cross sells and risks with mitigation strategy through the Regional VP Cust. Success
International Client Success Director - Customer Success EMEA
BAZARVOICE
Oct 2009 - Oct 2011
2 years 1 month
London, UK
- Develop and own the client relationship - Develop and share best practices to drive efficiency of UGC programs and adoption of the Bazaarvoice's suite of products and services - Consult with clients on marketing strategies to promote and leverage customer-generated content for their online and offline channels - Consult with clients to define key ROI measurement metrics aligned with their marketing strategy/plan - Provide partnership support, project management and tactical assistance for the execution of client marketing promotions - Advocate internally for client needs within Bazaarvoice, covering both technical, business and relationship issues
SEARCH MEDIA STRATEGIST EMEA
MICROSOFT/MSN
Aug 2006 - Oct 2009
3 years 3 months
- Building relationships with Premium search media buyers, my main goal was to grow the revenue and business on a pan-regional scale for a portfolio of Enterprise EMEA customers - Drive for Results: Monthly revenue uplift from $65K to $220K to reach multi-million $ in year 1 - Impact & Influence: Collaborate with Multinational and local Sales teams (UK, FR, US, DE, IT, NL, Asia) to increase the customer base, providing local Search market information, tools and presentations to increase the revenue base - Cross-group Collaboration across Search Media Operations (SMO), Sales, Marketing and Business Development teams
SEARCH MARKETING SPECIALIST
MSN / Microsoft France
Jan 2005 - Dec 2006
2 years
SEARCH MEDIA STRATEGIST FR & UK
Microsoft / MSN
May 2005 - Jul 2006
1 year 3 months
- Online Search Strategy - Account Management of top Premium clients in FR and UK such as WPP, Match.com, Meetic and eSearchVision in France, MediaVest and MediaCom North in the UK - Mentoring new team members - Training the search team on tools & processes
Espotting / MIVA
Sep 2001 - May 2005
3 years 9 months
AFFILIATES CONTENT MANAGER
Feb 2004 - May 2005
1 year 4 months
- Growth strategies, managing a portfolio of Affiliates: develop the partner relationship and grow the revenue from the syndication network - Pan-European Coordination: Leading revenue growth strategies for eurosport.com on a European scale, coordinating with teams from FR, UK, DE, ES, and IT - Collaboration with the Product & Engineering teams to create new revenue streams - Pre-sales: working on sales proposals to grow the Syndication network - Analysis & Reporting: Studying our affiliates’ audience (i.e. Lycos directory, LeMonde, MCM, Liberation…) and users’ behaviour to provide quality traffic and ensure best ROI for advertisers
Campaign Manager
Sep 2001 - Jan 2004
2 years 5 months
London, UK
MARKETING and MUSIC EDITOR
Muze.com
Oct 2000 - Aug 2001
11 months
- Customer management & support: bol.com,… - Supervising and organising the team’s work when necessary - Prioritising purchases and Supplies management: analysing top-selling albums and the market trends - Liaison with suppliers: corresponding with French music distributors - Data entry: specifying the product according to Muze standards: Artist/Title/Label/Music style … - Having produced a report that identified the need to build partnerships with music labels and distributors, I was given the opportunity to develop these relationships. It enabled me to work closely with Marketing on translating and adapting the company’s brochure to the French market
MARKETING EXECUTIVE FR
NewsAlert
Jul 1999 - Aug 1999
2 months
- Building partnerships with conference organisers to sponsor tradeshows and promote our services - Researching and Buying customers databases to target online and offline financial services companies - Sales support to implement and adapt the strategy previously set up with the European Marketing Director
Education
London Metropolitan University
Master of Arts - MA
1999 - 2000
2 years
Institut International de Management de l'Universite de Savoie
DESS
1999 - 2000
2 years
Université Paris-Sorbonne
Master
1998 - 1999
2 years
Licenses & certifications
Réussir le Changement
Issued: Sep 2020
Insights Selling
Issued: Dec 2017
Portfolio

Pubstack

Scaleway

Mapal OS - strategic consulting

Sympa - team efficiency
