Customer Experience Specialist (Junior)

EdUpStairs; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Discovery is seeking a Junior Customer Experience Specialist to enhance customer journeys and experiences within Marketing and Health units. You will work on CX initiatives, measure impact, and collaborate with product, operations and data teams to deliver insights and improvements.

The role focuses on supporting customer experience management practices, collecting VoC data, and driving change across Discovery Health initiatives. A foundational CX background plus a relevant degree is expected.

Qualifications

• Matric and higher education certificate required for the role.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred in a relevant field and CCXP/ACXP advantageous.
• Experience with CX measurement, insights and journey design is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Join cross-functional teams to support strategic CX projects and opportunities.
• Lead hypothesis-driven customer journey workshops with customers.
• Advise as internal SME in measurement, insights, and CX strategy.
• Gather and translate customer insights into actionable activities.
• Perform CX analytics and voice-of-customer data analyses with the team.
• Summarise data insights and inform brand decisions for Discovery Health.

Skills

CX analytics

NPS/CES

Project management

Excel visuals

Storytelling

VoC data

Stakeholder communication

Journey mapping

Education

Higher education certificate (Matric Certificate)

Bachelor’s degree (BSc, BCom, BA)

Tools

Excel

Tableau

SPSS

Job description

Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.

Key Purpose

Discovery – Marketing

Customer Experience Specialist (Junior)

About Discovery

Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.

Key Purpose

The Customer Experience Specialist (Junior) is responsible for improving value to customers and Discovery, by enhancing existing and enabling new strategic customer journeys and experiences. The success of this role will be measured through the delivery of key outputs and deliverables which support customer experience initiatives and projects. They will achieve this by leading specific tasks, outputs or workstreams on strategic customer experience projects and programs of work. They will be required to have a basic to intermediate understanding of customer experience management practices, including measurement, customer insights and understanding, customer experience strategy and culture change related change initiatives. This role provides the opportunity for a junior customer experience specialist to join the Discovery Marketing Customer Experience team and rapidly grow into a more senior role. The focus of this role is predominantly in the Discovery Health business unit, with some exposure and initiatives across the Group.

Key Outputs

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to:

• Join multi-disciplinary and cross-functional teams (product, operations, data science, systems and digital, marketing, etc.) where they will own specific tasks, outputs or workstreams which supports strategic customer experience projects to solve customer opportunities.
• Participate in hypothesis-driven customer journey workshops, validating with customers, prioritizing recommendations, and piloting changes before global roll-out.
• Consult and advise as an internal SME (subject matter expert) in other areas of customer experience management, including measurement, customer insights and understanding, customer experience strategy and culture change related change initiatives.
• Assists in improving the customer experience by gathering customer insights, analyzing data, mining information across all customer touchpoints and channels and translating it into actionable activities.
• Performs customer experience analytics and collect voice of customer data / insight, working with customer experience specialists / senior customer experience specialists and other team members.
• Synthesizes data and analytics and provides summary interpretation of what it means and how the data helps drive the brand promise.
• Communicates and shares customer experience data and insights data and updates documents so all stakeholders have current information.
• Scale the Discovery CX Innovation Lab initiative be scoping, designing, running and reporting the results from CX Innovation Lab experiments. These experiments aims to rapidly identify customer experience insights from stakeholder groups to support the designing of new customer experiences or enhancement of existing customer experiences.
• Leads by example by being the advocate for the Customer Experience across Discovery Marketing and Discovery Health.

Key Skills and Knowledge

Skills

• Ability to visualize customer experience data and insights.
• Ability to calculate and interpret common CX metrics and systems (NPS, CES, etc.)
• Ability to project manage basic or simple actions and deliverables.
• Ability to use Excel to analyse data and create visuals.
• Ability to use stories to compellingly and effectively present customer feedback to stakeholders.
• Ability to collect customer experience feedback and VoC input (qualitative and quantitative) from customers.
• Ability to presents and explains customer experience data to internal stakeholders in Discovery Health.
• Ability to map basic to intermediate customer journeys and experiences.

Knowledge

• Customer experience strategy.
• VoC methods.
• Customer experience metrics.
• Customer experience and journey design and mapping.
• Project management and prioritization
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Ability to use Excel/Tableau/SPSS to analyze data and create visuals
• Well-developed ability to solve data related problems

Education and Experience

• Higher education certificate (Matric Certificate)

Preferred Education and Work Experience

• Bachelor’s degree (BSc, BCom, BA).

Advantageous

• CCXP (Certified Customer Experience Professional).
• CEMM (Customer Experience Method / Successful Customer Outcomes) Accreditation.
• ACXP (Accredited Customer Experience Professional).
• ACXM (Accredited Customer Experience Master).

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY

The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.

City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa