Vice President, Retention Operations
The Vice President of Retention Operations is a strategic executive leader responsible for transforming the direction and establishing the broad strategy for retention operations across Thomson Reuters. This role partners with executive leadership teams across all business segments to drive alignment and operational excellence across three core areas : Customer Success Operations, Partner Operations, and Renewal Operations. Position is hybrid at one of our Thomson Reuters hub locations : MSP / Frisco / NY / Ann Arbor or Toronto.
About the Role
In this opportunity as Vice President of Retention Operations, you will drive :
Strategic Leadership
Define and lead the enterprise-wide retention execution strategy in collaboration with Segment Presidents, Finance and senior executives.
Establish a unified operational vision that supports customer loyalty, partner engagement, and revenue retention.
Provide strong leadership to a team of ~25, developing a talent strategy that focuses on AI upskilling, high performance and industry best practices.
Executive accountability as the Enterprise Renewals Process Owner, establishing process re-engineering initiatives to modernize and ensure the health of TR's renewals process.
Transform the existing Retention and Operations processes to be enabled by data and automated by systems workflows.
Work closely with all stakeholders and departments that directly and indirectly influence the success of the channels, such as Segments, Finance, Commercial Excellence, and O&T to ensure optimal engagement with business plans.
Provide leadership to the Partner organization as the executive accountable for Partner operations, ensuring that Partner processes and tools are aligned with business goals and customer needs.
Customer Success Operations
Lead the development and execution of scalable customer success programs focused on onboarding, retention, and growth.
Design and implement processes, playbooks, and health data management systems to enhance customer experience and outcomes.
Increase productivity and efficiency across Customer Success teams through strategic planning and operational support.
Customer Success Management (CSM) strategy, including renewals coverage modeling, process, and playbook design, customer health data management, and reporting.
Build the process that supports our customer success strategy for onboarding, retaining, and growing our customers.
Partner Operations
Maximize partner effectiveness and productivity through optimized engagement models and enablement strategies that drive sales results.
Oversee partner program execution, compensation design, analytics, and business intelligence.
Renewal Operations
Transform renewal processes to improve efficiency, predictability, and retention performance.
Leverage data and automation to streamline workflows and enhance forecasting accuracy.
Align renewal strategies with pricing models, value delivery, and customer lifecycle insights.
Structure and communicate clear rules of engagement and operational policies across retention functions.
About You
You're a fit for the role if your background includes :
What's in it For You?
Hybrid Work Model : We've adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
Flexibility & Work-Life Balance : Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
Career Development and Growth : By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow's challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
Industry Competitive Benefits : We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
Culture : Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values : Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
Social Impact : Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
Making a Real-World Impact : We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.
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