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# Customer Success Manager at Upshop

- **Company:** Upshop
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Posted:** 2026-08-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/upshop/jobs/5212237007

## Job description

## Overview of the Role

We are seeking a Customer Success Manager to join our growing team. As a Customer Success Manager, you will serve as the primary point of contact for assigned strategic customers to develop long-lasting relationships with our most valuable customers. This includes development of relationships with a cross-functional executives and project leaders within each customer and execution of strategies focused on driving customer retention and outcomes that will ultimately lead to more business.

In this role, you will report to the Director of Customer Success & Training and collaborate with a cross-functional team including sales, solutions consulting, customer success, business intelligence, and professional services.

Key Responsibilities:

- Own, drive, and manage the end-to-end customer relationship – ensuring customer satisfaction, renewal, and expansion by building trusted business relationships with customers key stakeholders
- Become a strategic partner to our customers by understanding the customers’ business, their strategic initiatives, and leading indicators for performance improvement to serve as a trusted advisor
- Act as an internal advocate and champion for your customers, pulling together the required teams and individuals needed to support current challenges or opportunities within the customer
- Execute and deliver on exceptional service, communication and partnership activities that included a consistent meeting cadence and annual Executive Business Reviews
- Develop ongoing communication with the retailers’ project and management teams to ensure trust and high satisfaction with Upshop, including considerations of additional Upshop products over time
- Maintain and strengthen relationships while fostering new contacts with customers cross functional leaders by providing support, information, and guidance; researching and recommending new opportunities for profit and operational improvements
- Lead the relationship management and internal data capture of key customer information and business capabilities
- Support and consult customer and Upshop Professional Services teams in ongoing projects and priorities to obtain measurable and sustainable benefits
- Collaborate with the sales team to foster revenue growth opportunities, and with the customer success team to develop customer plans and strategies to drive customer adoption and outcomes
- Maintain awareness of retail trends and competitive offerings to identify and understand best practices in the grocery industry
- Meet retention, adoption, and growth goals across assigned customers

Job Requirements and Qualifications:

- 2-4+ years of combined grocery retail industry and account management or retail operational experience
- Strong communication, listening and presentation skills and the ability to resolve situations while attaining customer satisfaction at both executive leadership and project level audiences
- Empathetic, positive attitude with a desire to help customers reach their goals
- Enthusiastic, results-oriented and creative individual with solid organizational and collaborative skills and comfortable with a fast-paced growth company
- Demonstrated desire for continuous learning, improvement and awareness of retail industry trends
- Attend all required meetings, training sessions, and company events
- Must be available for travel up to 30-40% of the time

Preferred Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree
- Experience with retail technology solutions
- Proficient with CRM tools such as Salesforce
- Experience with companies in growth phase

## About Upshop

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Upshop provides an AI-powered, SaaS-based Total Store Operations platform that helps food retailers streamline forecasting, ordering, production, and inventory optimization across fresh, center-store, DSD, and eCommerce departments.
- **Entity Type**: Private (part of Invafresh following a 2024 merger)
- **Headquarters**: Austin, Texas, United States
- **Founded**: 1989 (as Application Development Consultants, Inc.)
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (evolved through multiple acquisitions and a merger)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Food retail technology / Grocery technology
- **Target customers**: B2B – grocery retailers, convenience stores, and food retailers (serving 450+ retailers in 50,000+ stores across 35+ countries)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To deliver a simplified, smarter, more connected store experience that helps retailers improve sales, reduce waste, enhance food safety, and empower associates.

## Products & Services
- **Total Store Operations Platform**: An AI-powered SaaS platform that synchronizes Fresh, Center, DSD (Direct Store Delivery), and eCommerce operations. Includes modules for:
  - **Fresh Operations (FreshIQ®)**: Forecasting, ordering, production planning, and inventory management for fresh departments.
  - **eCommerce Fulfillment (ShopperKit)**: Omnichannel order management and fulfillment orchestration.
  - **Center Store**: Inventory optimization for shelf-stable goods.
  - **DSD Management**: Direct store delivery reconciliation and management.
  - **Date Check Pro**: Food safety and freshness date management.
  - **Magic Inventory Intelligence**: AI-driven inventory visibility and shrink reduction.
- **Total Store Ordering** (launched July 2025): A unified replenishment solution ending fragmentation across departments.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of approximately $12.3 million (based on 2024 estimates); Total funding not publicly available (funded via Invafresh parent entity)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Invafresh (parent company after 2024 merger), ReposiTrak (strategic partnership for FSMA 204 traceability), Inmar Intelligence (marketing and eCommerce fulfillment partnership), Heritage Grocers Group, Gelson’s Markets (recent customers)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount of 178 employees (+14.3% YoY growth)
  - Operates in 10 countries with offices in the US, Canada, Sweden, Colombia, UK, and Denmark
  - 2024 merger with Invafresh created the “first global retail operations platform” serving 35+ countries
  - Recent customer wins: Heritage Grocers Group, Gelson’s Markets
  - New product launch: Total Store Ordering (July 2025)
  - 19 active job postings; job postings up 111% year-over-year

## Competitive Advantages
- **Market Leadership**: Positioned as the first total store operations platform specifically built for food retailers, unifying previously fragmented department-level solutions.
- **AI-Powered Predictions**: Uses machine learning for demand forecasting, shrink reduction, and production planning, giving retailers a data-driven edge.
- **Scale & Trust**: Serves 450+ retail chains in 50,000+ stores across 35+ countries, including major grocery names.
- **End-to-End Coverage**: Covers fresh, center, DSD, and eCommerce on one platform — a rare integration in the grocery tech space.
- **Recent Merger Scale**: The 2024 merger with Invafresh combined complementary technologies to create a global leader with deeper R&D and customer support capabilities.

## Strategic Focus
- **Global Expansion**: Expanding reach across 35+ countries, with dedicated sales roles for Europe (Account Executive: Europe currently hiring).
- **Product Innovation**: Launching new modules like Total Store Ordering and predictive analytics for fresh prepared foods.
- **Partnership Ecosystem**: Building strategic integrations with partners like ReposiTrak (traceability) and Inmar Intelligence (marketing/fulfillment) to offer a more comprehensive solution.
- **Customer Growth**: Targeting non-grocery retail segments (convenience stores) and large strategic accounts.
- **Operational Excellence**: New CEO Mike Sanders (appointed April 2025) focused on accelerating customer innovation and operational excellence.

## Why Work Here
- **Growth Trajectory**: High growth phase with 14.3% headcount increase YoY and 111% increase in job postings year-over-year, indicating strong hiring momentum.
- **Global & Remote-Friendly**: Offers remote roles across North America and Europe, with offices in Austin (HQ), Tampa, Mississauga (Canada), and Sweden.
- **Engineering Culture**: Technical team of 52 people (24% of workforce) working with a modern stack including AWS, Kubernetes, React, Python, Databricks, and microservices. Key engineering leaders include Dan Larsson Wåssén (Head of Engineering) and RJ A Seoud (Sr. Director, Engineering Operations).
- **Mission-Driven Work**: Directly impacts food waste reduction, sustainability, and food safety — meaningful work with tangible environmental and social benefits.
- **Diverse Team**: Workforce spans 10 countries with employees from diverse backgrounds; talent sourced from companies like Invafresh, Albertsons, Kaseya, and others.
- **Employee Ratings**: Mixed reviews on Glassdoor (3.1/5.0 overall) with work-life balance rated 2.8/5.0 and culture rated 2.7/5.0 — potential areas for improvement in company culture and work-life balance.
- **Notable Perks**: Not explicitly listed; remote/hybrid flexibility appears available for many roles.

## Sources
1. [Upshop Website](https://upshop.com/)
2. [Upshop About Page](https://upshop.com/about/)
3. [Upshop Careers Page (Greenhouse)](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/upshop)
4. [Upshop LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/upshopretail)
5. [Business Wire: Upshop Appoints Mike Sanders as CEO](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250430916622/en/Upshop-Appoints-Mike-Sanders-as-CEO-to-Accelerate-Customer-Innovation-and-Operational-Excellence)
6. [Business Wire: Upshop Launches Total Store Ordering](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250715498817/en/Upshop-Launches-Total-Store-Ordering-to-Optimize-Customer-Service-and-Revenues-while-Ending-the-Fragmentation-of-Grocery-Replenishment)
7. [Business Wire: Upshop and Invafresh Unite to Transform Global Food Retail Technology](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/upshop-and-invafresh-unite-to-transform-global-food-retail-technology-302192585.html)
8. [Business Wire: Heritage Grocers Group Elevates Fresh Prepared Foods Strategy](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250812005899/en/Heritage-Grocers-Group-Elevates-Fresh-Prepared-Foods-Strategy-with-Predictive-Analytics-to-Serve-Diverse-Communities-at-Scale)

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