Alex Sinson

Senior Customer Success Consultant

Salary / Daily rate

Paris, France

Mobility: Lille, London, ...

Freelance

Can come onsite

Skills

Strategy & ConsultingCustomer SuccessBusiness Development

Languages

English (Native)French (Native)

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.

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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

Certified by ESSEC

Insights Selling

Issued: Dec 2017

Certified by Microsoft

Portfolio

Pubstack

Scaleway

Mapal OS - strategic consulting

Sympa - team efficiency

Zenchef - stratégies de rétention

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