Executive: Customer Operations/ Experience

--Powermax General Electrical Merchants Ltd--

Job Description

Responsible for shaping and driving the overall customer experience strategy to build loyalty, retention, and business growth. Oversee customer service operations to ensure high-quality, timely support, while leveraging customer insights and data to identify improvements. Lead position leads cross-functional collaboration to design and deliver seamless, integrated customer journeys across all touchpoints, fostering a customer-centric culture throughout the organization. In addition, it manages budgets, forecasts, and performance metrics, while ensuring alignment of customer experience initiatives with Telkom’s strategic objectives and maintaining a unified, consistent view of the customer across systems and channels.  

Key Stakeholders

  • Telkom stakeholders (Marketing, Product Sales Channels, regions, network, IT and Group Corporate Affairs)
  • Research Vendors
  • Equipment/ Device Vendors
  • Capability and service partners 
  • Specialist Contractor Providers/ Vendors/ Partners
  • HR
  • Finance

Job Industry

Customer Service & Support

Job Salary Currency

Job Salary Fixed

No

Key Deliverables

  • Develop and execute customer experience strategies to drive loyalty, retention, and growth.
  • Oversee customer service operations, ensuring high-quality support and issue resolution.
  • Analyze customer feedback and data to identify areas for improvement.
  • Lead cross-functional teams to design and deliver seamless customer journeys.
  • Foster a customer-centric culture within the organization.
  • Develop and manage budgets, forecasts, and metrics for customer experience and customer service.
  • Collaborate with all Telkom stakeholders to align customer experience initiatives with business objectives.
  • Implement and maintain a single view of the customer across all touchpoints and systems.

Ensure consistent and integrated customer experiences across:

    - Physical channels: Contact  centers,  stores, branches, events

    - Digital channels: website, mobile app, social media, email

Channel Specific Responsibilities 

Physical channels:

    - Design and optimize in-store experiences

    - Manage customer service at physical locations

Digital channels:

    - Develop and implement digital customer experience strategies

    - Oversee social media and online customer support

Overall Goals 

  • Improve customer satisfaction and loyalty metrics.
  • Reduce customer complaints and issues.
  • Increase customer retention and growth.
  • Enhance customer experience through innovative solutions.
  • Achieve a unified customer view to inform business decisions.
  • Deliver seamless experiences across physical and digital channels.

Essential Qualities

Essential Qualities

Functional Knowledge and Skills

Customer experience design and delivery; Customer service operations management; Leadership and team management; Data analysis and interpretation; Strategic planning and execution; Communication and stakeholder management; Budgeting and forecasting; Data integration and management; Omnichannel experience design

Competencies (Behaviour)

Thought Leadership: Develop strategies and create ideas and insight for the function.

Market Leadership: Develop expertise to seize opportunities, influence people and implement.

Business Leadership: Pursue strategies, goals and action employees to implement and follow-through on targets.

People Leadership: Empower, influence and direct people to make decisions.

Personal Leadership: Embrace change and work in a team with an alignment of self-values towards Telkom values.

Certifications

  • None

Education

  • NQF 7: 3 year Degree
  • MBA will be an advantage

Experience

  • 8 Years relevant experience, of which at least 3 years on senior management level

Additional Information

Special Requirements:

  • Proven experience in customer experience and customer service leadership roles.
  • Strong understanding of customer behavior, market trends, and industry benchmarks.
  • Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Ability to drive change, innovation, and continuous improvement.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Special Requirements

Physical Requirements

  • None

Special Benefits for this Position


Application Process

Close Date

30/11/2025