Customer Risk Manager
Role Overview
Leads risk mitigation and escalation management to resolve customer issues, prevent attrition, and protect long-term partnerships across the UAE and wider Middle East.
Acts as a strategic orchestrator in critical customer situations, aligning teams and providing executive-level visibility.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Leads risk mitigation and escalation management to resolve customer issues, prevent attrition, and protect long-term partnerships across the UAE and wider Middle East.
Acts as a strategic orchestrator in critical customer situations, aligning teams and providing executive-level visibility.
Key responsibilities
- Drive resolution of complex customer issues across engineering, product, sales, and executive leadership.
- Advise internal leaders and customer executives with data-driven recommendations and resolution strategies.
- Evaluate customer-risk business impact, prioritize resources, and set action plans and timelines.
- Provide structured English status updates; Arabic supports customer engagement where appropriate.
- Analyze incident trends and root causes to identify operational gaps and improve processes and products.
- Align matrixed teams and manage customer expectations transparently.
Required qualifications
- Experience in customer escalation management, account management, technical consulting, or enterprise project delivery.
- Demonstrated structured problem-solving and judgment in multi-stakeholder business challenges.
- Strong written and verbal communication and ability to translate complex concepts for executive audiences.
- Ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.
- Experience with enterprise CRM and collaboration tools, such as Salesforce, reports, dashboards, and Slack.
- Professional working fluency in written and spoken English.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred qualifications
- Arabic proficiency, especially for customer-facing work in the UAE and wider Middle East.
- Commercial experience developing customer-retention and business-outcome strategies.
- Familiarity with Salesforce products, customer deployments, and enterprise use cases.
- Experience with AI-driven insights, analytics, or automated reporting for customer-health assessment and risk mitigation.
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