Job Description
At Sage, our customers are at the centre of everything we do. We’re looking for a Customer Account Manager to drive revenue growth, retention, and long‑term value across our Sage Intacct customer base, while building trusted, strategic relationships with mid‑market and strategic customers.
This is a hybrid role, with three days per week based in our Newcastle office, offering the opportunity to collaborate closely with colleagues while maintaining flexibility.
Key Responsibilities
The role
As a Customer Account Manager, you’ll act as a trusted commercial advisor to your customers, owning the commercial relationship end to end. Your focus will be on maximising adoption of Sage solutions, identifying and closing upsell, cross sell, and add on opportunities, and ensuring customers achieve measurable business outcomes and return on investment.
Working cross functionally with Sales, Marketing, Product, Customer Success, and Support teams, you’ll drive predictable revenue performance while fostering long term customer partnerships built on value, trust, and insight.
What you’ll be responsible for
Driving incremental revenue growth through proactive identification and closure of upsell, cross sell, and add on opportunities
Owning commercial relationships across assigned Sage Intacct accounts, building strong partnerships with senior stakeholders, including CFOs
Developing and executing strategic account success plans aligned to customer goals, value realisation, and time to value
Leading customer renewal cycles, negotiating contracts within policy, and protecting and growing annual recurring revenue (ARR)
Proactively identifying and mitigating churn and contraction risks
Maintaining accurate CRM data, deal progression, and high quality revenue forecasts (monthly, quarterly, and annual)
Analysing pipeline health and performance trends across KPIs such as conversion, bookings, retention, expansion ARR, churn, and sales velocity
Championing customer success and adoption throughout the customer lifecycle, from implementation to maturity
Acting as the voice of the customer, feeding insights into Product, Commercial, Risk, and other internal teams
Collaborating cross functionally with Sales, Marketing, Product, RTR, Support, and Commercial teams to deliver outstanding customer outcomes
Promoting customer engagement, advocacy, and participation in Sage programmes and communities
What we’re looking for
Commercial & sales capability
Proven experience in account management, customer success, or commercial ownership roles
Strong ability to identify, qualify, and progress upsell and cross sell opportunities
Demonstrated success managing renewals, including commercial negotiation and contract execution
Confidence building and managing accurate revenue forecasts
Customer & stakeholder management
Ability to build trusted, long term relationships with senior stakeholders, including CFOs and finance leaders
Experience acting as a trusted advisor, helping customers realise measurable product and business value
Confidence navigating complex customer environments with multiple stakeholders
Data, pipeline & performance management
Strong CRM experience (e.g. Salesforce or equivalent)
Ability to maintain accurate pipeline data and analyse performance trends
Comfort interpreting SaaS metrics such as retention, expansion ARR, churn risk, and sales cycle performance
Customer success & value realisation
Experience developing and executing customer success or account plans aligned to business and financial objectives
Understanding of SaaS customer lifecycles — onboarding, adoption, value realisation, and retention
Ability to proactively identify and mitigate customer risk drivers such as low adoption or stakeholder change
Why Sage?
At Sage, you’ll join a purpose driven organisation where your commercial impact directly supports customer success. You’ll work with innovative cloud technology, collaborative teams, and customers who rely on us to help them grow — all while benefiting from a hybrid working model and clear opportunities for career development.