Customer Success Manager -Aerospace & Defence

As part of our overall investment and growth strategy in the UK at DXC, we are looking to hire an experienced Aerospace & Defence Client Success Manager to join our CES team. The CSM is a pivotal role responsible for driving client satisfaction, fostering account growth, and ensuring operational excellence within client engagements. This role focuses on managing all aspects of service delivery, advocating client needs, and collaborating cross‑functionally to achieve desired outcomes.

The CSM is responsible for key performance indicators including TCV (below $5M), revenue, contract margin, and client satisfaction, while also playing a vital role in driving client retention and overall account success.

• Being responsible for and owning all aspects (both project and run) of CES delivery on the account, including contract renewal, client satisfaction, profitability, resourcing, oversight of billable roles assigned to the account and service level agreements, thereby ensuring consistent high‑quality execution across all engagements and meeting margin expectations.
• Collaborating effectively with other offerings to deliver a consistent, full‑stack experience for the account when needed, ensuring coordinated communication and clear ownership across all product deliverables from delivery through maintenance.
• Carrying responsibility for on‑account growth, focusing on driving opportunities under $5M, including pipeline development, proactive solutioning, change control and accurate forecasting of revenue and contract margin.
• Identify and secure cross‑sell opportunities for wider CES services within existing accounts and wider associated client businesses.
• Serving as the central lead for all account activities outside of sales and Client Partner (CP) responsibilities, driving alignment and execution across internal and client‑facing teams, and providing strategic oversight and progress reporting to the CSM Territory Leader.
• Drive effective client partnership by aligning on resourcing strategy—ensuring clients assign capable, knowledgeable resources that complement DXC teams, and intervening strategically to resolve resourcing constraints.
• Drive financial governance by ensuring disciplined cash collection, proactively addressing AR challenges, and serving as the key decision‑maker for issue resolution.
• Ensure delivery and commercial compliance by partnering with the account delivery teams (Project Managers, Run Leads etc) to meet contractual obligations, maintain accurate internal systems, manage change controls, and drive post‑project learning and improvement.
• Collaborate effectively with peer CSMs—particularly within multi‑layered or large account environments—to ensure consistent client engagement, coordinated delivery, and seamless sharing of insights and account intelligence.
• Serving as the voice of the client within CES, advocating for their needs and expectations, aligning delivery teams to client priorities and desired outcomes acting as the central point of escalation for client issues.
• Driving operational excellence on the account, implementing governance structures, tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) and identifying areas for continuous improvement.
• Collaborating closely with cross‑functional teams (e.g., delivery, sales, marketing, and product) to align on client objectives, elevate risks, and surface new opportunities for value creation.
• Deep understanding of CES and wider DXC offerings to ensure DXC solutions are driven to the needs of the client.

• TCV
• Revenue
• Contract Margin
• Operational and Delivery Excellence
• Pipeline: Own & win less than $5 million opportunities
• Client Satisfaction (References, CSAT & NPS)

• Client retention rate
• Churn management
• Champion talent management by fostering development and engagement through coaching, mentoring, recognition, and succession planning

• Experience within the Aerospace and Defence domain
• Willingness to travel to client locations as required
• Eligibility for UK secure clearance
• Proven experience in client relationship management, demonstrating the ability to build, maintain, and leverage trusted partnerships to grow accounts.
• Strong background in delivery excellence and full lifecycle project leadership, with a track record of on‑time, high‑quality execution within budget.
• Ability to demonstrate value realisation and business impact, showcasing a clear understanding of ROI for clients — turning their requirements into reality while understanding market trends and clients’ competitors’ activities to offer the best solutions.
• Experience in account growth and expansion, including successful renewals and up/cross‑sells.
• Demonstrates exceptional capability in internal orchestration and cross‑functional collaboration, aligning diverse teams to deliver shared objectives while effectively managing risk, leading account escalations, and driving internal change initiatives.
• Demonstrates resilience and a customer‑first mindset, with the ability to adapt under pressure and prioritise client needs.
• Demonstrates a commitment to continuously strengthening digital acumen, maintaining awareness of emerging AI and technology adoption trends, and applying this knowledge to clearly articulate DXC’s offerings.
• Desirable – experience of enabling digital transformation of business outcomes either as a client or as a supplier, operating across consulting or delivery.
• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience).

DXC Technology helps global companies run their mission critical systems and operations while modernising IT, optimising data architectures, and ensuring security and scalability across public, private and hybrid cloud environments. With decades of driving innovation, the world’s largest companies trust DXC to deploy the enterprise technology solutions to deliver new levels of performance, competitiveness, and customer experiences.

We offer very competitive salaries coupled with an exciting benefits package including private medical insurance, gym membership discounts, pension contribution schemes and much more! We believe in nurturing an environment of continuous growth and development, with free training from our expansive upskilling library available to all our employees at any time. We encourage applications from those who may require flexibility in their working life for whatever reason, and/or those who are returning to the workplace. We’re committed to providing this flexibility on a long‑term basis. DXC Technology is committed to the development of a fully inclusive and sustainable workforce. All applications for employment are assessed purely on merit, against the capabilities and competencies required for the role. DXC Technology does not discriminate on the basis of gender, ethnic origin, race, faith, or sexual orientation.