Job Description

The Customer Care Manager will be responsible for increasing engagement and support to customers ensuring retention and growth of current business; working across the business to increase revenue and to promote existing and new products and services to customers

 The Customer Care Manager will develop and execute departmental plans to increase customer engagement in line with the overall strategic objectives of the company. In addition, provide leadership to the customer services team introducing innovation and Best Practice in customer relationship management.

 The successful Customer Care Manager will be commercially astute understanding the link between excellent customer services and profitability; a leader who can develop the team allied analytical with good interpersonal skills capable of working across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

Ø Build a highly motivated, integrated, transformation-focused customer experience function including to coach and develop the customer's retention & service teams.

Ø Design, develop and implement innovative Customer Experience propositions.

Ø Delivery of customer experience solutions to unlock customer value.

Ø Serve the company as thought leader on Customer Experience and Customer Insight.

Ø ncrease effectiveness of staff and tools by recognizing opportunities for development and/or improvement.

Ø Develop metrics to measure growth and performance

Ø Oversee your management team in relation to their on-going monitoring of individual and team performances in line with departmental Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

Ø Ensure that the need for additional staff, skills, processes, systems, equipment and all other operational demands are managed within departmental budgets and as proficiently as possible.

Ø Manage customer relationships, working with sales and marketing to drive, develop and grow relationships with customers.

Ø Direct and define the strategy for customer implementations to drive improved speed to revenue in alignment with the sales strategy.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS / EXPERIENCE:

•  Experience in call centre management at a senior or leadership level
• Understanding of operational management practices and how they are applied to analyze and evaluate operational needs.
• Proven success in supporting and/or leading multiple customer facing support teams and ability to deal directly with customers and customer issues to ensure customer satisfaction.
• Good understanding of metrics and databases.
• An understanding of sales issues and the ability to work with and keep communication lines open with Sales with regard to existing and new business opportunities, principles and practices of contact center services.
• Ability to take company strategy and translate into specific tasks and plans. 

You can apply to this position by emailing your CV English version to infoci@africsearch.com with the reference of this offer as subject.