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Isma Khemies

CS Coach, trainer & advisor | SaaS & Team Expert

€879/day
Berlin, DE
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Isma

Certified trainer, Coach and Consultant for Customer Success, Support and Key Account Female Leaders and teams with over 15 years of global, multi-market experience in SaaS and E-commerce.

I help leaders lead with clarity and sustainable performance.

I advise companies to build and scale their Account Management, Customer Success & Support teams, design onboarding and training programs, and optimise processes to boost retention, NRR, CSAT, and overall customer experience.

Having worked across diverse regions (Europe & North America), I bring a multicultural perspective that allows me to tailor solutions to different markets and organisational contexts. I am also a certified Train the Trainer, enabling me to design and deliver impactful learning programs for teams at all levels, from onboarding new Customer Success Managers to coaching senior leaders.

I offer freelance services in:

- Customer Success strategy and team setup
- Leadership coaching and training programs
- Teams coaching and training
- Onboarding playbooks, process design, and KPI frameworks
- Multicultural and multi-market customer experience optimisation
- Career pivot for Customer-facing individual contributors.

Whether you are looking to scale your Customer Success function, improve team performance, or enhance customer engagement globally, I bring the expertise and hands-on approach to deliver measurable results.

I deliver workshops, coaching, and playbooks tailored to diverse markets and cultures. Services include Customer Success strategy, team setup, KPI frameworks, and coaching of newly promoted, mid-career CSMs as well as female leaders, designed to drive measurable results fast.

Feel free to contact me for a quotation and to find out how I can support you.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • German

    Basic

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • Unitedprint.com SE,
    Head of International Key Account Management
    September 2019 - May 2022 (2 years and 8 months)
    01 Dresden, Germany
    • • Led 7 KAMs across 12 countries, overseeing 2,000+ enterprise clients.
    • • Designed and implemented global account frameworks, SLAs, and KPIs – improving response time SLAs by 20%.
    • • Increased upsell revenue by €1M through data-driven retention programs.
    • • Collected >500 client insights annually, influencing 52 new product features.
    • • Acted as executive sponsor for 15 enterprise accounts (€4M revenue).
  • Bookingkit.com GmbH,
    Head of Customer Success & Account Management
    TRAVEL AND TOURISM
    June 2022 - May 2025 (2 years and 11 months)
    Berlin, Germany
    • • Lead Customer Success and Onboarding teams managing a €9M ARR portfolio of 600+ SMB and Enterprise clients across Europe.
    • • Scaled the CSM team from 3→5 and the Onboarding team from 1→3, increasing ARR from €7M→€9M.
    • • Revamped onboarding programs, reducing time-to-value by 70% (3→1 month for Key Accounts; 1 month→1 week for SMEs) and increasing adoption rate.
    • • Redesigned customer journey and KPIs (NPS, CSAT, ARR), raising NPS by +8 points (90→98) and cutting churn from 9% to 5%.
    • • Streamlined collaboration with Sales, Product & Marketing, reducing handoff time by 60%.
    • • Built and implemented a competency matrix and career development plan; achieved 100% internal promotions within the team.
    • • Boosted ARR by 105–108-114% (€7M→€9) despite tourism sector volatility with QBRs, Health Scoring, Expansion and Renewals strategies.
    • • Launched new pricing and fee models, driving +15% ARR growth.
    • • Increased revenue-generating activity by +56%.
    • • Created Competence Matrix, reducing cross-functional meetings by 50%.
    • • Reduced onboarding cycle by up to 75%, accelerating client activation and satisfaction.
    Coaching Training Customer Success (CS) strategy and operations revenue retention/expansion (NRR/GRR) churn management and KPI-driven frameworks
  • Unitedprint.com SE,
    Senior Sales Manager France, Benelux, Switzerland
    September 2016 - August 2019 (2 years and 11 months)
    01 Dresden, Germany
    Advanced from KAM into sales leadership, focusing on growth, conversion, and strategic client partnerships.

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Education

  • Train The Trainer Certification
    Success Resources
    Train The Trainer Certification
  • ESOL English Certificate (L1 & L2)
    Cambridge University/Edexcel
    2012
    ESOL English Certificate (L1 & L2)

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