Director, Family Concierge
Newton, MA - USA
Job Summary
Primary Purpose:
The Director Family Concierge is a senior leader responsible for driving the strategic direction operational excellence and accelerated growth of the Family Concierge program. This role ensures exceptional service delivery client satisfaction and alignment with organizational goals while expanding the impact of the program. The Director oversees a team of managers and individual contributors fostering a culture of innovation collaboration and customer-focused excellence.
This position requires a strategic thinker who can manage complex relationships deliver results and identify opportunities for continuous improvement. The ideal candidate is a proven scale leader with experience extensively growing and transforming inside sales revenue operations consumer service and/or casework/consultative organizations. As a key driver of the One Bright Horizons initiative the Director of Family Concierge will be leading the effort to integrate the service with Bright Horizons cross functional lines of business scale the service significantly to Bright Horizons clients and enhance the effectiveness of teams ability to cross sell and connect employees with their applicable benefits all while maintaining an established level of high quality and excellent consumer satisfaction.
This is a hybrid position requiring 3 days a week onsite at our headquarters in Newton MA.
Bright Horizons is a leading education and care company that helps employees thrive at work and at home by partnering with employers to offer high-quality child care elder care and educational support. Our workplace reflects this commitmentwith collaborative environments meaningful benefits and a culture that supports both career growth and personal well-being. Whether youre caring for children or powering the systems and partnerships that make it all possible at Bright Horizons youre the difference.
Essential Functions/Responsibilities:
- Strategic Leadership
- Set and execute a multi-year strategy that aligns client value employee experience and revenue impact.
- Focus on delivering customer value at scale optimizing touchpoints and systems that create customer loyalty retention and long term relationships.
- Establish and track scaling Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) including conversion quality metrics and Net Promoter Score (NPS).
- Identify operational bottlenecks and lead continuous improvement initiatives to increase productivity quality and consistency at scale.
- Build systems and processes that enable the service to become increasingly self-funding through cross-line-of-business referrals and benefit connections.
- Serve as the primary advocate for the Family Concierge team representing its value proposition to senior leadership and external stakeholders.
- Team Leadership and Development
- Lead and develop a multi-layered organization of managers and individual contributors scaling both headcount and leadership capability over time.
- Design team structures roles and career paths that support growth retention and performance at scale.
- Drive strong hiring onboarding and training programs that ensure consistent service quality across a growing team and reinforces team members as subject matter experts.
- Experience leading change management for enterprise-scale teams.
- Foster a culture that combines inside sales discipline consultative problem-solving and a family-first service mindset.
- Operational Excellence
- Define and evolve operating models workflows capacity planning and demand management to support scale with predictability and consistency.
- Coordinate with the Manager of Family Concierge on day-to-day efforts ensuring seamless service delivery and adherence to client commitments.
- Balance high-touch experiential service with efficiency standardization and self-service enablement and report outcomes to leadership
- Identify operational inefficiencies and implement solutions to enhance productivity and client satisfaction.
- Continuously focus on scalable solutions without compromising quality.
- Client and Stakeholder Leadership
- Partner closely with client relations and enterprise stakeholders to ensure Family Concierge delivers measurable value to employers and employees.
- Serve as the escalation point for high-impact or at-risk situations ensuring strong outcomes and relationship continuity.
- Represent the Family Concierge service in executive conversations enrollment strategies and growth planning.
- Cross-Functional Integration and Growth
- Work closely with marketing product operations technology and sales to integrate Family Concierge seamlessly across Bright Horizons offerings.
- Strengthen the teams ability to identify needs guide decision-making and connect families to the right Bright Horizons benefits at the right moment.
- Use customer insights data and feedback loops to inform product and experience enhancements
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree
- 10 years leadership experience (12 years preferred) in scaling or transforming services including experience managing managers and growing teams through periods of rapid change experience in B2B and/or B2C environments (preferably both)
- 5 years of management experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Masters degree
- Experience leading or partnering on CRM or service-platform implementations at scale
- Experience managing budgets and cost-to-serve models
- Demonstrated success scaling inside-led services consultative sales/support organizations customer experience teams or multi-client service operations.
- Experience leading services through growth inflection points integrations or operating-model redesigns.
- Leadership & Skills
- Strategic thinker with a proven ability to drive results and lead complex projects from conception to completion.
- Strong leadership and interpersonal skills with a track record of building and maintaining business relationships across all levels of an organization.
- Exceptional decision-making prioritization and organizational skills.
- Adaptability to thrive in a fast-paced dynamic environment.
- Data-driven mindset with experience analyzing performance metrics to inform strategy and operations.
- Technical Proficiency
- Experience leveraging CRM platforms (e.g. Microsoft D365 or Salesforce) and service tools to support scale visibility and performance management.
- Familiarity with technologies that enable customer experience workflow automation and operational efficiency.
At this time Bright Horizons will not sponsor an applicant for employment authorization/visa for this position.
Be part of a community where people grow futures are shaped and lives are changed. We offer the rewards opportunities and support you deserve because making a difference goes both ways. Were changing the world of work and family and it starts with you. At Bright Horizons youre the difference.
Compensation:
The annual salary for this position is between $123000-$155000. The pay range listed here is what Bright Horizons in good faith anticipates offering for this job opening. Actual compensation offers within this range will depend on a variety of factors including experience education and training certifications geography and other relevant business or organizational factors.
This position is also eligible for a bonus and RSUs.
Benefits:
Bright Horizons offers the following benefits for this position subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
- Medical dental and vision insurance
- Paid vacation sick holiday and parental bonding leave
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Long-term and short-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Money-saving discounts and financial planning tools
- Tuition assistance and education coaching
- Caregiving support and resources for the children and adults in your family
- Learn more at at Bright Horizons:
At Bright Horizons youre more than your job title youre the difference. Whether youre nurturing a childs first steps or supporting the systems behind the scenes your work creates real impact. Were a community that celebrates individuality invests in your growth and supports your whole self. Because when you thrive so do the children families and clients we serve. Join us and help build a brighter future for yourself and for others.
Bright Horizons provides equal opportunity in all aspects of employment and does not discriminate against any individual on the basis of race color religion sex age disability sexual orientation veteran status national origin genetic information or any other characteristic protected under federal state or local law. Bright Horizons complies with the laws and regulations described in the following federal government resources: Know Your Rights Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA).
If you require assistance or a reasonable accommodation in completing these application materials or any aspect of the application and hiring process please contact the recruitment helpdesk at or . Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.
Required Experience:
Director
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