Account Office Manager

To lead PayPoint’s retail account strategy by developing and managing long-term, high-impact partnerships with large national grocery chains. The role is focused on maximising the strategic and commercial value of these partnerships across PayPoint’s full suite of products and services. Define and execute the strategic direction for managing national grocery accounts, ensuring alignment with commercial goals and long-term value creation. Build and embed structured, disciplined account management practices that enable consistency, scalability, and high-quality delivery across a diverse and complex retail partner base. Foster a culture of accountability in relationship management, including rigorous planning, clear performance tracking, and regular structured reviews. Prioritise account focus based on strategic alignment, commercial opportunity, and potential for partnership expansion across PayPoint’s product suite. Lead commercial negotiations and manage contracts with retail partners, ensuring that agreements are commercially sound, well-governed, and enable long-term growth. Maintain and oversee detailed account plans for key partners, covering commercial targets, service performance, risk, and relationship development strategies. Work cross-functionally with Product, Operations, Customer Service, and Legal to ensure cohesive delivery, issue resolution, and continuous service improvement across all accounts. Lead and develop a high-performing retail account team, ensuring team members are equipped with the structure, tools, and support needed to manage accounts effectively and professionally. Monitor and uphold service quality standards, ensuring proactive and transparent communication with retailers during change, incidents, or escalations. Proven experience managing strategic commercial relationships within complex, multi-product environments. Minimum 5 years’ experience in account management, commercial partnerships, or client-facing roles. Demonstrated success in improving account management operations through structured processes and disciplined execution. Strong capability in contract negotiation and lifecycle management across multiple, high-value accounts. Experience managing multi-site retail accounts at scale. Proven experience in leading and developing commercially focused account teams. Process-oriented and disciplined in how relationships and account performance are managed. Excellent planning and prioritisation skills, able to balance scale with depth of relationship. Experienced in contract negotiation and commercial delivery. Data-literate and results-driven, with a focus on using insight to improve outcomes.