Senior Director Customer Services

DHL; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 60,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading logistics company as Chief Energy Officer in Customer Service, where you'll enhance customer engagement and service quality. This senior role requires strong leadership, extensive contact center experience, and a strategic mindset to improve service delivery while managing a motivated team.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years' experience in contact center environment, preferably in Logistics/Courier sector.
• 5 years of leadership experience in a similar context.
• Experience managing complex projects.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and execute customer service initiatives for excellence.
• Ensure daily smooth running of Customer Service across teams.
• Analyze market data and develop customer services strategy.

Skills

Leadership

Customer Service Excellence

Project Management

Coaching

Analytical Skills

Education

University bachelor's degree in business discipline

Post-graduate qualification in Management

Job description

IT’S NOT JUST AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET ON THE CAREER LADDER.

IT’S AN OPPORTUNITY TO HELP THE WORLD GET ON TOGETHER

Why do people call us the world’s most international company? Is it because we operate in more countries than any other logistics provider? Is it because we invented cross border shipping over 45 years ago? Or is it, perhaps, because what we do connects people across the world. And the more we can connect people, the better life on earth becomes.We love our role in the world. And we’re looking for the right people to help us maintain – and grow it. People like you.

Role Context

Design, develop and execute customer service initiatives and strategies that will ensure service excellence and delivery of best-in-class service to DHL customers as a Trade Facilitator by Regulators and Customers.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and execute customer service initiatives and strategies that will ensure service excellence and best-in-class service is delivered to DHL Customers to support country business imperatives and strategic plans in alignment with DHL’s global/regional strategy.

• Take part in and ensure the smooth consistent daily running of the Customer Service across teams including coaching KPI-management, securing workforce management planning and calibrating quality standards.

• Be Chief Energy Officer for the CS management team and play an active part in engaging our motivated managers and CS international specialists and achieve high levels of engagement and motivation for the benefit of our work place and the customer experience

• Be custodian of our customer experience by collecting Voice of Customer, responding to escalated customer complaints and drive initiatives to enhance our Insanely Customer Centric service offering across functions.

• Coach and liaise with stakeholder on projects, challenges and optimizations within the framework of our DHL Express standards

• Coach and develop the CS management team and support their leadership of their teams

• Analyse national market, customer information & develop a customer specific customer services strategy which is translated into a clear activity plan

• • Develops and implements systems, standards, targets, and customer feedback mechanisms to monitor customer service performance and ensures that activities are efficient, consistent, reliable, and in high quality.

  • • Liaises with Regional Office, Worldwide Network, OPS, IT, CPD, etc. to ensure that customer service strategies and activities are integrated with other parts of the business and aligned with the overall subsidiary/global line of business

      objectives to maintain our competitive edge.

• Oversees the customer service budget on the country level

Minimum Requirements

Education & experience

• University bachelor degree in a business discipline or relevant education
• Post-graduate qualification in Management
• Minimum 8-10 years’ experience within contact centre environment, accompanied with a wide experience at senior level preferably in Logistics/Courier sector or service-oriented business.
• Minimum 5 years leadership experience within the contact centre environment/context
• Managed and implemented large projects of a complex nature
• Ability to travel nationally and internationally
• Able to facilitate training

We are looking forward to your application.