Director, Customer Experience

San Diego, CA, United States

** Director, Customer Experience**

**Job Category****:** Customer Experience **Requisition Number****:** DIRCU05073 Showing 1 location **Job Details**

**Description**

**PURPOSE OF THE JOB**

Exciting opportunity for someone with a proven track record and passion for creating world-class customer service experiences. This includes hands-on experience interpreting customer insights, process analysis, business analysis (including ROMI and Marketing SIOP), process mapping, service blueprinting and process improvement execution. The **Director of Customer Experience** will promote and oversee the execution of the Customer Experience strategy to drive business growth through the adoption of the customer experience mindset and principles throughout the organization. This position exists to achieve customer satisfaction, differentiated and exceptional brand identity, and industry-leading attraction and retention of customers across all business lines.

**ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**

Directs existing CX programs and activities ensuring achievement of goals and continuing value to the business

* Annually reviews programs for relevance, currency of content and alignment with business short and long term goals;

* Implements and manages changes and interventions to ensure program goals are achieved;

* Effectively collaborates and communicates with stakeholders to identify program issues and facilitate decision-making on services.

* Forecasts program funding needs to guarantee uninterrupted delivery of services.

* Strategizes with the marketing team to leverage social media and other web marketing tools to promote on-going value of programs to customers;

* Oversees program calendars and ensure that all CX program offerings across the department are coordinated and properly integrated into the value proposition of our business lines.

Develops new customer experience activities, programs and training and enhances intact programs to drive the adoption of the customer experience mindset and principles across the enterprise.

* Expands program offerings and enhances the quality of existing programs to align and mobilize stakeholders around one view of the customer

* Creates and/or oversees project/program proposals including design, submission and review with business leaders and where applicable, Project Review and Enterprise Governance

* Develops and manages a budget and operating plan for the program(s).

* Delivers customer experience training and mentors training participants thereafter ensuring they apply their learning and become Customer Experience champions among their work groups.

* Develop and execute service blueprinting training and journey mapping training. Lead all service blueprinting and journey map endeavors until SMEs developed.

* Lead ongoing internal CX certification training, and serve as team member advisor in regards to adoption and deployment methodologies, techniques, frameworks. This includes the creation/authoring/execution of additional tiered CX training: Evangelist and CX introduction programs.

* Development and execution of companywide contact center

Contributes to the strategy and leadership of the Customer Experience Department

* Provides input and expertise to the formulation of both short and long term strategy and tactical planning for the department;

* Serves as a spokesperson on CX and represents the Department on assigned Committees, projects or other enterprise initiatives within the Company;

* Serves as a speaker, panelist or Subject Matter Expert in conferences and events to enhance the ICW Group brand;

* Provides direction to department Team Members and serves as a decision-maker in the absence of the SVP;

* Maintains currency and expertise in all aspects of Customer Experience, the Commercial P & C industry and contributes innovative ideas to both the Department and the Enterprise to further the business goals.

Serves as a subject matter expert and evangelist within the organization for customer experience initiatives and issues.

* Develops and maintains a deep understanding of our customer needs, behaviors, and decision processes

* Champions and leverages data sources, journey mapping and research to fully understand our customers experience with us.

* Detects customer pain points and identifies creative short term solutions and detailed long term roadmaps to eliminate the pain points and drive the customers desire to do business with us.

* Develops and executes on a customer segmentation strategy using data analysis and synthetization

* Evangelizes, utilizing all forms of communication and promotion, to bring operational excellence and best practices and ensure all customer experiences create value, satisfaction, and retention of customers.

* Networks with clients and customers, senior-level business leaders, product and service managers, technology directors, and marketing and analytics teams, etc. helping them to discover/ define/develop/embed CX methodologies, approach and requirements into daily operations.

* Partners with Enterprise Marketing and Human Resources to create internal communications, training and development opportunities and customer storytelling to promote cultural change.

Develops and supervises a team of customer experience professionals, once established.

* Provides daily direction to service blueprinting team and guidance to other CX professionals. Communicates Mission, Values and other organization operating principles to direct reports.

* Establishes and maintains the overall work cadence and, in partnership with SVP Customer Experience, ensures performance and outcomes strive for excellence in delivery and customer experience. Ensures that the entire team is engaged and that leadership practices team encourage development, recognition and retention.

* Establishes and adheres to hiring criteria, on-boarding and training requirements for incoming staff.

* Oversees the performance management and development process for the team and performs performance management duties, development planning and coaching for direct reports.

* Acts as a resource for the entire Customer Experience Department to answer questions and solve complex problems.

* Manages Service blueprinting team budget, technology and other resources, workload and drives journey mapping and other customer experience services. Ensures adherence to all Company policies and procedures and Compliance responsibilities

* Ensures data quality, adherence to IT security guidelines, profitability and other risk-related metrics for self and members of the team.

**SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES**

Directly supervises employees within the Customer Experience team and carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with company policies and applicable laws. These responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; conducting performance and salary reviews; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems; coaching, mentoring, and developing team members to further their skills and knowledge; creating and monitoring development plans; setting performance expectations/goals; forecasting staffing needs and planning for peak times and absences; enforcing department policies and procedures.

**EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE**

Bachelors degree from a four-year college or university: Business Administration, Data Analytics, Information Systems or related degree, preferred.

Minimum 8+ years of experience managing the full life cycle of Customer Experience projects and ongoing management of programs.

Minimum 5 of Customer Experience leadership, preferably in the financial services industry. 4 or more years of direct Call Center and Customer Service management/leadership.

Demonstrated experience developing 5 yr strategic plans, AOPs and marketing SIOPs.

B2B and B2C experience highly preferred to

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