The Director for customer experience owns the deployment of Sutherlands quality framework in the assigned programs and partners with the business leaders to ensure compliance to all contractual /client deliverables continuous improvement of customer experience talent development and deployment of Sutherland IT platforms to drive our strategic business goals. Listed below is a summary of the responsibilities but not limited to
- Design and execute the OutsideIn model in key strategic accounts to generate client specific business insights to improve their client retention issue resolution revenue generation etc.
- Continuously improve the customer satisfaction quality and sales KPIs thru the effective deployment of the CIP framework to deliver a 50 reduction in all defect types.
- Deliver a 15 increase in share of wallet in our key strategic accounts with quality coverage thru reduction of customer effort and touchpoints per resolution.
- Drive efficiency improvement of 15 thru efficiency gains productivity and dollar saves in the budget.
- Ensure that all CE managers in the geo have a clear understanding of the vision and deliverables of the CE team and their expected contribution to the outcomes.
- Implement a monthly cadence of reviewing the business insights from CIP with the service delivery / account team to ensure complete alignment with the evolving customer expectations.
- Ensure cross functional actioning of the CE business insights generated to prevent recurrence and drive improvement in the Customer experience.
- Build the CE teams skillset by evaluating the current capability and partnering with the capability development team to address specific skill development needs.
- Represent the Sutherland customer experience function in internal and external forums.
- Perform any other assigned tasks as required by the leadership team.
Job Qualifications
Qualifications (Knowledge Skills & Abilities):
- A strong background in BPO/BPT (US) supporting banking and Fintech clients
- Experienced in customer research business analytics and continuous improvement
- Hands on experience in driving change management in a large matrix d environment
- Lean Six Sigma/CI Methodologies/Design Thinking trained and certified.
- Strong Lateral Work Experience in other functions like Service Delivery Training etc.
- Excellent presentation and facilitation skills for group sessions.
- Possess strong planning organizational and skills collaborative professionalism and initiative while handling multiple projects and programs concurrently.
- Strong written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
Education and Experience
- Professional degree or an MBA in Operations or the relevant experience
- Min 10 years in the US banking BPO/BPT industry with at least 2 different customer management roles and functions; a strong understanding of CLM and BLM banking operations.
- Min 6 years in a people management role with experience in directing multiple teams in a busy and taskoriented environment.
- An entrepreneurial mindset that is able to navigate through ambiguity and continuously evolving business needs.
Ability to represent the function and company in client interactions (online and face to face).