Job Description
Principal Duties & Responsibilities
Customer Experience Strategy
- Design and implement strategies to boost both customer relationship and the customer experience journey
- Develop feedback or complaints procedures for customers to use
- Improving customer service procedures, policies and standards for the organization.
- Ensure the creation and adjustment of policy information or status of customers is effected in line with company quality standards
Collaboration with teams
- Develops strategy with other managers to discuss possible improvements to customer service as it concerns the company
- Provides customer experience insights on product development engagements
- Oversees training of sales, marketing, product development to deliver high standards of customer experience
- Provides guidance and supervision to sales, marketing and customer relations teams to on delivering excellent customer experience to clients across various platforms
- Implements plans for customer-facing team towards ensuring that their interactions with customers always reflect the company in a positive light, and to guarantee rapid responses to any and all inquiries and questions
- Provides regular feedback to Head, Customer Solutions, Digital and Technology Services for communication to customer-facing team in order to keep these employees apprised of changes
Customer relationship management
- Provide direction for the effective and thorough handling of customer enquiries
- Handle escalated customer service issues to resolution.
- Review records of customer interactions and transactions, recording details of inquiries, complaints, and comments, as well as actions taken
Business Development
- Generate business growth opportunities by developing and managing key relationships for enhanced revenue performance
- Provide recommendations in the improvement of customer experience in order to ensure that the Company stays ahead of its competitors
- Monitor the company Net Promoter Score data and define improvement opportunities and strategies to enhance communications targeted at early tenure and low tenure customers
Education and Work Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing or Business Administration or any related discipline.
- Professional certification such as Certified Customer Service Professional or relevant qualification
- Minimum of 7 – 9 years’ relevant experience in the financial services industry with at least 3 years leading a team.
Required Skills and Competencies
- Strong Business Acumen.
- Excellent understanding of the local and global financial services industry.
- Excellent understanding of trends and recent developments in insurance industry.
- Extensive knowledge of MS Office tools.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong strategic orientation, creativity and innovation.
- Strong stakeholder management skills
- Exceptional communication skills – written, oral, interpersonal, and business presentation skills and the ability to effectively interface with senior management, and staff.
- Demonstrated commitment to ethical standards and high level of integrity.
- Strong risk management skills
- Excellent customer service skills
- Strong knowledge of customer-centricity
- Strong knowledge of product development
- Strong knowledge of the company’s products
- Proven excellent skills in the use of CRM tools and systems
- Strong understanding of insurance principles and practices
- Strong understanding of legal obligations and regulatory compliance
- Strong leadership and people management skills
- Demonstrated leadership experience partnering at multiple organizational levels and across remote teams