Head of Customer Complaints
6 months ago
Company Description
**Hours**:40 hours per week, 8am to 8:30pm Monday to Saturday
**Location**:Hybrid role with 2-3 days in Colindale / Paddington, London
**Hello, we're UW**
We’re a bunch of great people working together, solving problems and having fun. Together, we strive to find solutions to help the great people around us get on with the things that really matter in life.
How? It’s simple, we take the headache out of essential home services by providing them all in one place - energy, broadband, mobile, and even insurance. That’s one provider, one account, one bill, and lots of savings.
We’re a truly unique FTSE 250 company with a business model that has real social impact at the heart of it. Being a part of the UW community you’ll join a working environment like no other - one where everyone matters - be it our customers, our partners or you, our people.
**About the role**
We're looking for a Head of Customer Complaints to join UW covering a 12 month maternity leave. Someone who will lead, drive and optimise complaint handling excellence and customer care. A leader who has the experience, understanding and expertise of being compliant with regulators in addition to their ability to lead a team that effectively problem solves, collaborates and engages with internal teams to drive resolution for our customers. Besides having the knowledge and experience of running the day on day of the complaints operation, you will bring strong interpersonal, communication and persuasion skills to drive a people and customer centric culture.
**What you’ll do**
- You'll report directly into Head of Service and will be supporting a team of 75+ FTE with 2 Managers
- Driving development of the complaints and escalation handling function in a rapidly growing company across multiple products
- Interact and collaborate with cross functional teams with the aim of constantly improving our level of service provided to our customers. This might include but not limited to: exceeding on agreed service levels, suggesting improvements to support processes or aiming for reduction in complaints in the first place
- You also would need to have the ability to build relationships with our regulators and governing bodies
- You'll be responsible to lead the team to ensure the Customer Complaints and Escalation team is managed effectively to deliver against agreed KPIs & SLAs
- Developing the capability of your team to deliver sustainable operational excellence, continuous improvement and effective management and deployment of people
- Create a motivated and enabled environment for our contact centre staff across ‘in office’, ‘hybrid’ & ‘remote’ teams
- Identify and support with training needs and development opportunities for people across all levels within the team
- Reviewing current systems and processes continuously analysing their effectiveness, making changes to improve efficiencies
- Breaking down complex business cases and backing up reasoning using advanced analysis to problem solve
- Proposing, developing and implementing systems, programs and processes that strengthen the foundation of WOW service excellence to our customers
- Driving efficiencies by identifying opportunities and leading the team to deliver improvements
- Develop, coach and inspire colleagues to fulfil their potential giving team members stretching opportunities, providing support & ensuring quality operational excellence
- Develop and tell compelling business relevant stories that are visually appealing and demand action by engaging and collaborating with key stakeholders
**About you**
- A successful track record of driving reduction in complaints, operational improvements in a call centre environment.
- Strong stakeholder management & motivation skills
- Love working and leading big teams, seen as a leader in your peer group
- Problem solver who can diagnose the root cause of a problem, propose a solution, win buy-in and see through the implementation of an appropriate remedy
- Able to evidence using the right leadership behaviours with confidence to get the very best from the teams by providing clarity, feedback, coaching & development, while continuously seeking to improve the performance in line with the business objectives and customer service team priorities
- Driving and inspiring a positive, high energy, results oriented culture in your team
- Energetic and collaborative and willing to roll up your sleeves and get involved in hands on delivery
- A self-motivated and enthusiastic individual with passion for supporting our people and customers
**Minimum Criteria**
- In a Head of Complaints role or equivalent experience
- Previous experience of working with regulators (OFGEM,OFCOM or FCA) & Ombudsman
- Proven track record of good behaviours & performance
**Job Description**:
**Qualifications**:
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