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Head of Customer Operations

1 month ago


Manchester, United Kingdom AccessPay Full time
DescriptionThe Head of Customer Operations is a senior role within the organization, reporting to the Director, Customer Success. 

Our Customer Success (CS) team are responsible for the overall service we provide to our customers, whether this is the onboarding of new customers to the in-life servicing of existing customers, our aim is to build strong relationships with our customers whilst creating a great experience at every opportunity. To achieve this the Head of Customer Operations will work closely with our Head of Customer Success and Head of Implementation, to identify any issues, review our customer processes, manage incidents, work to reduce customer churn plus own other customer impacting activities.

The Head of Customer Operations, working with the Head of Service Desk, will be responsible for all inbound customer queries and issues with this team acting as the 1st line support to the customer base.  By improving process and looking at opportunities for our customers to self-serve the team should be measuring their 1st time resolution times, that all SLAs are achieved and working closely to other internal teams to create a great customer experience.

This role will involve working closely with our IT Operations and Infrastructure teams to ensure we have full visibility of our payment processing metrics and use this to identify where we can improve our customer experience.  

We know that incidents are inevitable within businesses but how we manage these is critical to our success.  As part of the role the holder will support the Director, Customer Success by acting as our Incident Commander. 

This role with also take the lead for building the processes, procedures, tooling, and personnel required for a world-class customer service which blows the mind of our customers every time.  The CS Ops leader is an expert in our products, platform, markets and crucially our customer base, and acts as a coach to ensure that all members of their team are equally proficient in these key areas.  

Key Responsibilities• Building a team of highly skilled team members who represent AccessPay values and vision to the customer without exception and can work with the customer to build the partnerships required.
• Oversee the Customer Operations team, ensuring that all SLAs are met, and in many instances exceeded.
• Create a performance management environment within the team.
• Drive a culture of 1st time resolution, where this isn’t possible work closely with the 2nd line teams to resolve issues within the agreed SLAs.
• Continually identify opportunities to improve the processes for our customers, all with an aim of creating a world class customer experience.
• Proactively design and deliver service delivery processes and tooling that engenders exceptional customer experience.
• Represent the voice of the customer internally, acknowledging that customer voices should be aggregated where possible for maximum effect, by drawing out trends and similarities between customers.  
• Communications about and from the customer needs to be frequent and relevant within AccessPay.  The Customer Operations team is responsible for ensuring that all roles and staff within the AccessPay family understand and receive regular updates on our customers.  

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise• An excellent people manager with demonstrable experience managing operational teams for performance.
• A proven track record of managing and developing high performing teams.
• A payments background and solid of understanding of the payment’s infrastructure.
• You have an inquisitive mind and look to achieve operational excellence by challenging the norm.
• You look for optimisation of processes and can work with wider teams to deliver.
• Will understand the importance of operational processes and the importance of KPIs.
• Use data to make decisions and always have a mindset of continuous improvement.
• Given the industry in which we operate, and as a critical supplier to our customers, be prepared to support the business outside regular hours if incidents occur.

Benefits
  • You will be entitled to 25 days’ holiday + 8 bank holidays increasing with length of service.
  •  Birthday off work
  • 2 Volunteer days a year.
  • The option to purchase additional days holiday.
  •  We operate a contributory pension scheme which you will be auto-enrolled into from day one of employment. 
  •  Free Gym Membership with Pure Gym or Wellbeing Allowance 
  •  Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave 
  • Share option scheme after probation
  •  Cycle to work scheme after probation
  •  Health cash plan
  •  Free breakfast & lunch food when in the Manchester office
  •  Discounted Parking in Manchester
  •  Access to training – both internal and external
Check out our Company page on the Great Place to Work website:
Working at AccessPay | Great Place To Work® UK AccessPay is a fintech company committed to making banking operations smart, simple and secure through automated payments and cash management. We empower finance and treasury teams with access to technology that gives corporates the same experience that we as consumers have come to expect in our day-to-day lives.

Head quartered in Manchester we have a diverse, supportive and inclusive workplace culture. We provide people with the balance of remote of office working they need to thrive. Whilst AccessPay continues to grow, we remain a start up at heart but continue to grow agile teams, working cross functionally, learning from each other and not being afraid to take on ambitious challenges.

AccessPay is an Equal Opportunity Employer. As part of our values, we are committed to supporting inclusion and diversity at AccessPay. We actively celebrate colleagues’ different abilities, sexual orientation, ethnicity, faith, and gender. Everyone is welcome and supported in their development at all stages in their journey with us.
 
AccessPay is proud to be named a UK's Best Workplaces™ in 2024 & UK's Best Workplaces in Tech™ 2023  by Great Place To Work®  company.

Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture. Since 1992, they have surveyed over 100 million employees around the world, using those deep insights to define what element makes a great workplace: Trust. Great Place to Work® UK helps organisations quantify their culture and produce better business results by creating a high-trust work experience for all employees. Everything they do is driven by the mission to build a better world by helping every organisation become a truly ‘great place to work’. To learn more, please visit www.greatplacetowork.co.uk.

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