Operational Customer Experience Lead

3 days ago


Reading, Reading, United Kingdom Thames Water Utilities Limited Full time

Job Title: Operational Customer Experience Lead

At Thames Water, we're looking for an experienced Operational Customer Experience Lead to join our team. As an Operational Customer Experience Lead, you will be responsible for leading projects and programmes to improve how we handle complaints across all our operational communication channels.

You will work closely with business stakeholders to change processes, ways of working, systems, and customer journeys to deliver high-performance and high-quality customer service to our operational household customers.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Manage a programme team to deliver high-performance and high-quality customer service to our operational household customers.
  • Manage change within a dynamic operational environment and build a continuous improvement and transformation culture.
  • Collaborate with key stakeholders within operational complaints management, customer contact, and individuals leading customer improvement activity.
  • Develop and report on a customer measure of experience (C-Mex) improvement plan ensuring that progress is visible and sustained.
  • Engage with operations customer contact, operations case management, complaints handling teams, planning and scheduling teams, field operations teams, management and leadership teams.
  • Engage with external stakeholders to learn from other organisations on customer complaints and C-Mex.
  • Analyse complaints and customer contact processes, procedures, systems, and customer journeys and recommend improvements.
  • Interpret customer data, particularly root cause analysis, customer journeys, and customer experience.

What You'll Need:

  • Management level experience within customer service or customer complaints and experience developing process improvements.
  • Experience in steering regulatory customer improvement (ideally C-Mex or equivalent).
  • Experience within an operational business such as the water industry, other utilities, telecommunications, or large-scale construction.
  • Previous continuous improvement, service transformation, and project change experience.
  • Ability to use data and insight to inform focus areas for improvement.
  • IT confidence with experience in key applications such as SAP (CRM) and Salesforce (Work Management).

What We Offer:

  • Competitive salary up to £60,000 per annum depending on previous experience.
  • 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with length of service (Plus bank holidays).
  • Contributory pension – Defined Contribution - Maximum of 12% - 2x employee contribution.
  • Personal Medical Assessments – Open to all once a year.
  • Wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, which is packed full of offers and information to save you money and support your wellbeing.


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