Principal – Customer Experience – Home Loans
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Job Description
Seeking candidates with a passion for helping Discover deliver exceptional experience to lead the development and execution of the customer experience function within the Discover Home Loan (DHL) business. Key responsibilities will be complaint management, coordinating and leading action plans to address root causes of customer dissatisfaction, monitoring customer satisfaction metrics and management of projects to further strengthen our customer experience across all channels. Additional responsibilities include managing Voice of the Customer analysis. The right candidate must have exceptional analytic, project management and communication skills while being comfortable working across Marketing, Sales, Digital and Operations.
Responsible for supporting the development, implementation, and management of new feature creation on existing and new products. Responsible for fielding customer and analytical data to drive product innovation recommendations, and will lead cross-functional teams to implement new features. In addition, responsible for leading customer experience strategies and projects, including directing complaint management efforts. The manager will identify and coordinate efforts to capture opportunities to enhance the customer experience across all customer touchpoints.
Specifically, this position is responsible for managing voice of the customer insights for Discover Home Loans with oversight of all customer data sources (survey, feedback, complaints, social media, online reviews, regulatory organizations), data analysis and improvements to the overall customer experience. This role partners with business stakeholders to assess current pain points and develop solutions to improve existing processes, communication, training and technology. Additionally, this position leads the continued expansion of customer insight tools and research methods to increase data collection frequency and methods. This person is part of a strategic team that identifies opportunities to increase customer satisfaction and reduce complaints within a rapidly changing and fast-paced environment. The position will partner with several internal stakeholders (Marketing, Field Operations, Operations Strategy, Policy & Procedures, Legal, Compliance, BRIC and Consumer Banking Operations) as well as external parties.
Responsibilities
Analyze trends to identify operational, process or systemic failures that pose a risk to the organization and provide solutions for process improvements.
Present findings in a compelling manner, both written and verbal, to all levels of the organization (including senior leadership), using data to tell the story.
Partner with extended team members to identify pain points across the customer journey and develop quick and actionable improvements.
Refine existing data collection methods and develop additional capabilities across the customer journey to create a deep understanding of the customer’s end to end experience and reactions to individual components of the experience.
Responsible for managing the development and implementation of key initiatives, product enhancements, and customer experience.
Partners with BT and PMO to ensure BT projects are delivering business strategy. Comanages key projects with BT Lead
Leads customer experience reviews on key customer events/interactions from start to finish to identify areas of opportunity for feature development, improving communication, or enhancing the customer experience and more.
Monitors the performance of the customer base to measure product success and identify opportunities.
Creates Customer Experience strategy roadmap
Develops insights through evaluation of existing customer KPIs and shares key insights across the department.
Responsible for managing the development and implementation of key initiatives, product enhancements, and customer experience.
Partners with BT and PMO to ensure BT projects are delivering business strategy. Co-manages key projects with BT Lead.
Leads customer experience reviews on key customer events/interactions from start to finish to identify areas of opportunity for feature development, improving communication, or enhancing the customer experience and more.
Monitors the performance of the customer base to measure product success and identifies opportunities.
Develops insights through evaluating existing customers’ KPIs, and shares key insights across the department.
Minimum Qualifications
At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:
Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Business, or related field
6+ years of experience in Marketing, Financial Services Marketing
In lieu of a degree, 10+ years of experience in Marketing, Financial Services Marketing
Preferred Qualifications
If we had our say, we’d also look for:
Master's Degree in Marketing, Business, or related field
1+ years of experience in people management
In lieu of a degree, 1+ years of experience in people management
3+ years of experience in Consumer Insights or related field
Experience working with field operations
Mortgage or financial services industry experience
Previous experience managing VOC programs and/or data collection
Experience with customer-related software (i.e., Tealeaf, Glassbox, Ominture SiteCatalyst, Google Analytics, eGain, Salesforce) and/or Tableau preferred.
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