Head of Customer Experience Management Employment Opportunity – Barclays Bank UK

Organisation: Barclays Bank
UK
Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda
Reports to: Chief Operating Officer
About US:
Barclays is a British multinational banking and financial services
company headquartered in London. It is a universal bank with operations in
retail, wholesale and investment banking, as well as wealth management,
mortgage lending and credit cards. It has operations in over 50 countries and
territories and has around 48 million customers. As of 31 December 2011,
Barclays had total assets of US$2.42 trillion, the seventh-largest of any bank
worldwide.
Job Summary: The Head of
Customer Experience Management will be accountable for setting the Customer
Experience Strategy, designing the service blueprint and outcomes and
prioritising the Customer Improvement agenda on behalf of the business, in
order to realise our commercial plan. The Head of Customer Experience
Management will play a pivotal role in;
  • Defining, evolving, and embedding the
    customer experience strategy;
  • Leading and motivating the business to
    ensure the delivery of our strategy & plans across all customer touch
    points, journeys, channels & services; 
  • Holding the mirror up to the business
    through customer led culture & governance at multiple levels of the
    organisation.
Key Duties and
Responsibilities:  
Customer Journey Mapping:
  • Develop Customer Journey Maps or Customer
    Experience Maps to allow everyone in the organization to clearly
    understand the steps in the customer journey and take appropriate actions.
  • Identifying Drivers of Loyalty:
    Develop and implement mechanisms to regularly understand which customer
    experiences drive customer loyalty. These mechanisms will supplement the
    intervals between Net Promoter Score surveys.
  • Root Cause Analysis and Action:
    identifying and acting on the root causes of customer pleasure or
    displeasure.
  • Building a customer focused
    business:
    • Actively review and revise
      existing processes and procedures to build a Customer Centric
      organization
    • Recommendations on actions to
      take to resolve Customer Complaints /Disputes
    • Recommendations of process /
      procedure transformations
Setting the Agenda for Customer Experience:
  • Ownership for defining and achieving this
    vision for both sets of customers
  • Drawing on the latest thinking and
    innovation in this space as a credible expert and thought leader
  • Leveraging latest technology to accelerate
    greater efficiencies in customer service experience
Championing the Customer:
  • Taking a hands on approach – you should
    always be aware what our customers care about
  • Sweat the small stuff with it comes to
    individuals’ experiences – ensure we fight to take every opportunity to delight
    and retain every customer we have
  • Passionately influence all areas of our
    business as the internal voice of our customer
  • Ensure customers are the heart of our
    decisions – challenging where appropriate
People:
  • Create a community of customer experience
    representatives that share knowledge and experience to be stronger as a
    team
  • Partner with Learning & Development to
    ensure training and on-going development supports our people in being
    subject matter experts that can credibly and confidently serve our Customer
Taking a commercial and strategic approach:
  • Understand our business targets for
    acquisition and retention and agree associated targets with leadership
    that you’ll take accountability of and regularly report on
  • Lead on strategic initiatives to drive
    customer experience and positively impact our business
  • Use continuous improvement techniques to
    constantly refine customer vision and ensure alignment with wider business
    strategy
  • Manage team in commercially viable manner
    – making sure the team spend time where they can add value not resolving
    queries that could be pre-empted/managed differently
Risk, Governance and Regulatory
  • Ensure that all activities and duties are
    carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise
    Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy
    Standards.
  • Understand and manage risks and risk
    events (incidents) relevant to the role.
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience:
  • The ideal candidate for the Barclays Head
    of Customer Experience Management (CEM) career opportunity should have at
    least ten years’ experience in a consumer marketing/commercial leadership
    role with three years’ experience with direct responsibility for
    delivering exceptional “customer experience.”
  • Previous experience of operating in a
    multi-channel customer facing environment is essential
  • Strategic planning & delivery
    leadership.
  • Previous experience of operational
    management would be desirable.
  • Management and leadership of teams
  • Project leadership on a multi-site,
    multi-stakeholder level
  • Financial and budget accountability
  • You will be globally-minded, ambitious and
    – above all else – will ‘ooze’ customer service.
  • You’re likely to have prior experience of
    leading the customer experience at a company that is renowned for exceptional
    customer service.
  • Barclays is interested to hear from you if
    you can demonstrate:
  • A strong ability to challenge with
    confidence in a peer group with high capability, intellect and knowledge
  • A clear passion for exceptional customer
    service, with a solid understanding of the expectations of clients in the
    Financial Services industry
  • A strong record of applying
    customer-centricity to shape solutions and approaches which enable
    business success
  • Demonstrated ability to confidently
    communicate and influence at Executive level
  • The right balance of strategy and process
    oversight.  They must enjoy sitting
    close to the team and being heavily involved in every stage of the
    customer experience as much as they would enjoy formulating and overseeing
    a global customer experience strategy
  • A global mind-set
  • An entrepreneurial flair through
    innovation, adaptability and lateral thinking
How to Apply:
If you feel wish to join one of the world’s largest banking groups and
believe you can deliver on key deliverables as outlined above, upload your
application letter, current curriculum vitae and photocopies of academic
certificate to our recruitment website detail below:
Barclays is an equal opportunity employer that recruits, develops and
promotes people on merit, and rewards outstanding performance, regardless of
background and gender.
Deadline: 20th January 2017

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