Customer Relations Director

4 weeks ago


StokeOnTrent, United Kingdom Davies Full time

Job Title: Customer Relations Director

Job Summary: We are seeking a highly skilled Customer Relations Director to lead our Customer Relations Division. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in complaints management, people management, and regulatory compliance.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead a team of Complaint and Admin handlers, including personal and professional development, objective setting, structured performance reviews, and support.
  • Ownership and oversight of internal and client MI, ensuring accuracy of data before issue.
  • Delivery of key service metrics, with a particular focus on complaints mitigation, lifecycle, regulatory milestones, and team compliance to process.
  • Responsible for the customer care philosophy across all lines of claims, including property, niche, casualty, and motor.
  • Responsible for review and sign-off of all compensation awards, taking into consideration client philosophy and regulatory guidance.
  • Working towards agreed budgeted revenue and costs, construct and effectively manage team budgets.
  • Manage change within the department through system, process changes, and client improvement plans.
  • Encouraging an approach to complaints management centred around customer experience, ensuring best practice in-team, but also in root cause analysis and feedback to Claims teams.
  • Regular attendance at client-facing meetings and facilitation of external audit meetings.
  • Monitor the unit's team performance against the agreed Client service level, internal key performance indicators, and agreed operational business objectives.
  • Develop strong relationships with clients and the claims management community, providing proactive complaints analysis and support, constructive feedback, and praise for outstanding performance.
  • Work collaboratively with Training & Quality team to address areas for improvement through coaching, identified through root cause analysis.

Requirements:

  • Minimum 5 years complaints handling experience.
  • Minimum 5 years people management experience.
  • Understanding of FCA, FOS, and Lloyds complaints processes.
  • Strong user of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and capable of producing reports and data analysis.
  • The confidence to act with autonomy, to understand and resolve issues presented by clients and the wider business.
  • An ability to understand the needs of our clients and a desire to work towards continuously improving our delivery of those.
  • Understanding of all regulatory issues (people, FSA, Data Protection, TCF, Consumer Duty, etc).
  • Proven ability to work with senior management, claims/legal professionals, other insurers, brokers, affiliated companies, and clients.
  • Excellent organisational skills and the ability to work on multiple tasks concurrently.
  • Self-motivated and able to motivate others.
  • Ability to work to deadlines while prioritizing workload and multi-tasking.
  • A positive can-do approach to problem-solving is a must.


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