Chief Customer Experience & Service Strategy

Southeastern Railway

Greater London

On-site

GBP 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

6 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Final salary pension
25 days annual leave
Free rail travel

Job summary

Southeastern Railway is seeking a Customer Experience Director to lead the customer strategy and operational delivery from our head office in London Bridge. You will shape the customer journey across stations, information services, and disruption management, influencing every touchpoint of travel for millions of customers.

You will interact with executives and frontline teams, balancing customer, operational and commercial priorities while maintaining safety standards.

Qualifications

  • Dare to Lead: inspiring leadership to drive change and results.
  • Customer obsessed: build strategies that earn advocacy and trust.
  • Strategic thinker: assess impact of decisions on business and people.
  • Extensive Operations Experience: lead large multi-site teams.
  • Drive performance: balance customer, ops and commercial priorities while keeping safety.

Responsibilities

  • Lead customer strategy and operational delivery for the network.
  • Shape customer experience from stations to frontline service and information.
  • Engage with customers, frontline colleagues, stakeholders and partners.
  • Represent the function at executive and board level to define the future of the business.

Skills

Leadership
Customer focus
Strategic thinking
Operations leadership
Performance delivery
Unionised environment
Railway industry knowledge

Job description

Southeastern Railway is seeking a Customer Experience Director to lead the customer strategy and operational delivery from our head office in London Bridge. You will shape the customer journey across stations, information services, and disruption management, influencing every touchpoint of travel for millions of customers.

You will interact with executives and frontline teams, balancing customer, operational and commercial priorities while maintaining safety standards.

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