Generous holiday allowance
Charity / volunteering days
Income protection insurance

Customer Success Executive (Payroll Software)

Salary Competitive + Commission
Location Manchester or Slough, UK (Hybrid)
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This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

Are you passionate about building strong relationships and helping customers get the very best out of the solutions they use? Do you thrive on guiding clients through their journey and ensuring they achieve long-term success? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

About the role:

As a Customer Success Executive, you’ll be a trusted advisor for our key customers, typically managing core (mid-market) accounts or specializing in flagship products. Your mission is to help clients get maximum value from our market-leading software in HCM, supporting them at every step of the customer journey.

From onboarding and product training to adoption, retention, and beyond—you’ll be the bridge between our solutions and our customers’ success. You’ll collaborate closely with colleagues in Customer Success, Sales, Operations, and across the business, ensuring that our customers not only achieve their goals but also become enthusiastic advocates for our brand.

 

What you’ll be doing:

  • Managing a portfolio of customers and acting as their primary point of contact

  • Building trusted advisor relationships and guiding customers to achieve their goals

  • Leading the onboarding process and ensuring customers achieve value quickly

  • Driving adoption, satisfaction, renewals, and expansion opportunities

  • Conducting regular check-ins, business reviews, and on/off-site meetings

  • Acting as the “voice of the customer” internally to shape product and service improvements

  • Maintaining a deep understanding of our products and advising on best practices

  • Creating customer success plans, tracking customer health, and proactively addressing risks

  • Partnering with teams across the business to deliver seamless customer experiences

 

What we’re looking for:

  • Strong relationship-building and communication skills

  • Proven experience in customer success, account management, or a client-facing role

  • Experience dealing with payroll or payroll software

  • Ability to manage multiple customers and projects at once

  • A proactive problem-solver with a customer-first mindset

  • Comfortable engaging with senior stakeholders and driving value conversations

 

Why join us?

  • Be part of a company that’s transforming the  HCM space with innovative solutions

  • Work with passionate teams and supportive leadership

  • Opportunities to develop your career within a growing Customer Success function

  • Competitive salary, benefits, and performance-related incentives

 

As one of the UK’s largest privately held software companies, IRIS Software Group exists to simplify the lives of businesses, schools and organisations.

IRIS provides software solutions and services that substantially enhance operational compliance, efficiency and accuracy, empowering the users of our technology to look forward with certainty and confidence.

Over 4 million parents use our software to connect with their child’s school, 18% of UK employees are paid via an IRIS payroll solution, 50,000 SMEs use IRIS cloud bookkeeping and 21,000 firms rely on us for legislative compliance.

Our operational software is the invisible but essential beating heart of our customers’ businesses, supporting them in a range of objectives, from maintaining legislative compliance to boosting engagement with stakeholders and enhancing productivity.

It’s vital these mission-critical functions work first time, every time.

That’s why IRIS helps businesses run the tough stuff, stay compliant and get operational tasks done right first time, every time – so they can focus on productivity and growth.

IRIS is a company built on hiring the best people; our people are our greatest assets.

They enable us to be the innovative, market-leading, and high-performing company that we are today.

We’re delighted to be certified as a Great Place to Work and one of the UK’s Best Workplaces for Women.

These accolades confirm that our employees have a consistently positive experience at IRIS, with the certifications considering employee wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, trust in management, effective communication and recognition/reward.

IRIS is committed to engaging, rewarding and empowering our employees, and this is central to what we do.

This is why we work to create an environment where employees feel like they are part of a team.

We believe in creating a culture of engagement and reward to develop your potential and offer long-term career success. We do this by:

Supporting our managers to be great leaders, providing inspirational management resources and offering dedicated management development training.

Rewarding individual excellence through dedicated initiatives and Employee Awards for demonstrating our values.

Offering regular training and development programmes tailored to each employee’s development needs and providing a commitment to a ‘learning culture’ which shares knowledge, best practice and our long-standing expertise between employees.

We’re committed to a culture of continuous improvement and listen to our employees via regular feedback sessions and employee engagement surveys.

Our employees love the colleagues they work with. We promote a positive environment where our people feel comfortable, make friends and support each other.

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