Job Description
JOB DESCRIPTION
- The Customer Experience Lead is responsible for designing, managing, and optimizing the end-to-end customer journey across all Bet9ja touchpoints, including retail shops, digital platforms, and brand activations.
- This role ensures that every customer interaction with the brand is consistent, engaging, and commercially effective, translating marketing strategy into seamless on-ground and digital experiences that drive acquisition, retention, and loyalty.
- The role serves as the execution engine for customer experience within Marketing, bridging strategy, operations, and delivery across channels
- Customer Journey Design & Optimization
- Map and continuously improve the end-to-end customer journey across:
- Retail shops
- Online platforms (in collaboration with Digital/Product teams)
- Campaign and event environments
- Identify friction points and implement solutions to improve:
- Acquisition
- Engagement
- Retention
- Establish and maintain CX standards and guidelines
- Campaign & Activation Experience Delivery
- Lead the execution of customer-facing campaigns across all channels:
- Retail activations
- Online-to-offline campaign integrations
- Product launches and promotions
- Ensure all campaigns deliver a seamless and unified customer experience
- Drive consistency between: What is advertised and What is experienced by the customer
Retail Experience Oversight
- Ensure retail shops deliver a consistent and engaging customer experience
- Oversee: In-shop branding and visibility, Customer engagement activities, Campaign execution at shop level
- Work closely with Retail Operations and Agents to maintain execution standards
Digital Experience Collaboration
- Partner with Digital/Product teams to ensure: Marketing campaigns translate effectively online, Customer journeys align across retail and digital platforms
- Provide customer insights to improve: App/website experience, Campaign landing journeys
- Support adoption of digital products
Vendor & Agency Management
- Manage experiential agencies, vendors, and partners delivering customer-facing initiatives
- Ensure delivery is: On time, On brand, Within budget
- Oversee briefing, execution, and performance evaluation
- Customer Engagement & VIP Experience
- Support the design and execution of VIP customer experiences across: Retail, Events, Exclusive engagements
- Identify opportunities to elevate high-value customer journeys
- Work with internal teams to enhance loyalty and retention initiatives
- Insights, Reporting & Continuous Improvement
- Track and analyse customer experience performance metrics: Engagement levels,
- Campaign participation, Footfall and activity trends
- Deliver post-campaign reports with actionable insights
- Use data to refine and improve future experiences
Cross-Functional Alignment
- Work closely with: Marketing (Brand, Digital, PR), Retail Operations, Customer
- Service, Finance & Procurement
- Ensure alignment between: Strategy, Approvals, Execution
- Maintain speed to market while ensuring process compliance
PREFERRED SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in: Marketing, Business Administration, Communications Or any related field from a recognised higher institution is mandatory
- Master’s degree (MBA or Marketing-related), an added desirable advantage
- Certifications in Customer Experience (e.g., CX, Service Design, Brand Experience) -
Desirable
- Preferred Industry Experience from Betting/Gaming industry, FMCG (especially activations & field marketing), Telecommunications, Entertainment & Events, Retail chains or multi-location businesses
- Strong experience, customer experience, experiential marketing, or retail marketing
- Data & Reporting exposure, comfortable tracking and reporting around Campaign performance, Customer engagement metrics
- Able to turn insights into actionable improvements
- Experience with: Briefing, Quality control, Delivery timelines
- Ability to think in terms of: “What does the customer feel, see, and experience?”
- Customer-Centric thinking-
- Experience at improving customer engagement, Brand experience, Campaign participation
- Working to tight timelines
- Comfortable being in/on the field, not just behind a desk
- Stakeholder management with ability to influence and persuade toward a result/outcome
- Data-driven decision making
- Attention to detail and quality control
- Strong execution and project management
- On-Ground Execution Experience- Managed campaigns, activations, or events
- Experience executing across: Multiple locations,
- Multi-Channel Experience- Exposure to both: Physical environments (retail, events, activations) and Digital/customer journey touchpoints
- Vendor & Agency Management- Proven ability to manage: Agencies, Fabricators,
- Production vendors
- Strong execution and project management
- Attention to detail and quality control
- Ability to thrive in fast-paced