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Company Description
Zayo provides mission-critical bandwidth to the world’s most impactful companies, fueling the innovations that are transforming our society. Zayo’s 141,000-mile network in North America and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of buildings and data centers. Zayo’s communications infrastructure solutions include dark fiber, private data networks, wavelengths, Ethernet, and dedicated Internet access. Zayo serves wireless and wireline carriers, media, tech, content, finance, healthcare and other large enterprises.
Zayo is seeking a Senior Manager over Customer Retention, who will lead and develop a high-performing team of Customer Account Managers accountable for delivering exceptional customer outcomes and strong business results. This role will establish a culture of ownership and accountability, with a disciplined focus on revenue growth, revenue preservation, financial performance, and the overall health of our customer relationships.
This leader will set clear, measurable objectives; coach and develop talent; attract and retain high-performing team members; and establish consistent operating disciplines that enable the team to perform at its best. Through data-driven leadership, they will identify opportunities to expand customer relationships, proactively address revenue risk, and continuously improve both customer and business outcomes.
Success in this role requires a leader who can balance customer advocacy with commercial accountability—building trusted relationships across the organization, driving effective cross-functional collaboration, and ensuring the team translates customer needs and insights into meaningful action.
Zayo is relentless in its pursuit of world-class customer excellence. This leader will play a critical role in advancing that ambition by building a team that delivers measurable value for our customers while driving sustainable growth and financial performance for Zayo.
Location: This remote work position will consider applicants that reside in the continental United States.
Responsibilities
Manages recurring revenue and net revenue retention, oversees renewal negotiations and partners with sales to identify opportunities.
Nurture talent to maximize team performance and CAM skill sets in all functional areas through coaching, mentoring, training, and knowledge sharing while minimizing employee regrettable churn.
Establishes and delivers on objectives and supporting KPIs that are aligned with Customer Retention, revenue retention, Sales and across Zayo
Has accountability for the performance and results of a team within own discipline or function
Adapts departmental plans and priorities to address resource and operational challenges
Decisions and problem-solving are guided by policies, procedures and business plan; receives guidance from senior management
Leads with authenticity, passion, and an employee and customer focused mindset
Present performance insights, strategy updates, and quarterly results clearly to stakeholders and customers.
Builds and manages deep, meaningful, and effective relationships with customer segment and business partner teams (individual contributors to executive leadership) to ensure rapid effective responses to customer needs.
Effectively communicates, highly organized, and a dependable member of Customer Retention leadership team
Lead key client meetings and take ultimate accountability for functional escalations.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s / Master's degree in related field, or equivalent combination of training, education and experience
Five or more years of experience working in a leadership role
Seven or more years of telecommunications industry experience
Demonstrates excellent communications skills: written, verbal, and listening.
Proven ability to recruit and attract new talent
Ability to influence peers and superiors to accept a point of view, adopt a specific agenda, or take a course of action to achieve Company goals
Ability to foster a cooperative work environment
Ability to adjust and adopt to changing priorities, goals, procedures and essential duties
Strong presentation, organizational, administrative, and time management skills
Strong analytical/quantitative skills and possess excellent follow-up skills
Excellent negotiation skills with proven ability to close business
Highly collaborative and respectful approach when working with our stakeholder teams
Demonstrates extreme ownership
Ability to understand process, identify improvements, and implement change
Ability to create and project manage a continuous experience improvement program (scope, milestone management, engagement, execution, and change management)
Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Google products with full working knowledge of the internet, email and web browsers
Travel up to 25%
Estimated base salary range: $105,000 - $150,000 USD/annually.
The base pay range shown is a guideline and reasonable estimate for this role. It takes into account the wide variety of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions. Actual compensation offered may vary from the posted range based upon geographic location, work experience, skill level, certifications, and other business and organizational needs. Non- sales roles may be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive plan. Sales roles may be eligible to participate in a sales incentive plan.
Additionally, this position may be eligible for certain benefits, such as health insurance, life insurance, disability retirement plans, paid time off.
The posting will be active for a minimum of 3 days. The active posting will continue to extend by 3 days until the position is filled.
Benefits, Rewards & Wellness
Excellent Health, Dental & Vision Insurance
Retirement 401(k) Savings Plan
Generous paid time off policy including paid parental leave
Zayo is an equal opportunity employer to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact us.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
As part of the application, hiring, onboarding, and/or employment process, Zayo or its affiliates, partners, and vendors may collect, store, and use biometric identifiers and biometric information (collectively, “Biometric Data”), such as fingerprints, facial geometry scans or other unique biological characteristics. Zayo uses CLEAR1, a third-party identity verification service, to verify applicant identity during the hiring process. CLEAR1 may collect Biometric Data, including facial geometry scans and/or other biometric identifiers, to authenticate your identity. Biometric Data will be retained pursuant to CLEAR1’s policies, which can be found here: Zayo will not sell, lease, trade, or otherwise profit from any applicant's or employee's Biometric Data. By proceeding with your application, you acknowledge this disclosure. Prior to any collection of Biometric Data — including through CLEAR — you may be presented with a separate consent form and asked to provide your written authorization in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws, including the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), the Texas Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act (CUBI), and other applicable biometric privacy statutes.
