Head of Customer Experience

Full Time
Salary: £53.00 per hour
Location: Haringey, London
Sectors:Professional Services

Head of Customer Experience
Haringey
£53.46/hr
Start date: ASAP
Hybrid - 2 days in office

Role Purpose, Context and Scope:

  • Accountable for leading and managing specific Council services at a tactical delivery level, providing professional expertise, leading on a complex programme or the commissioning of services for the Council.
  • Horizon scanning 1-3 years; emerging practices and seek out the latest thinking and innovation within their service.
  • Work with Councillors to implement the strategic aims and objectives of the Service.
  • Provide strong leadership management and guidance regarding the allocation of resources, risk management, change management and behaviours within a specific service area.
  • To role model the values and behaviours of the organisation so your teams can see and hear, and learn from you.
  • Manage and develop the workforce with their service area.


Indicative Accountabilities:
-To have robust, affordable operation plans in place to deliver the Corporate Plan on time and to budget.
-Create and build effective relationships internally and externally with key stakeholders and instil in direct reports the imperative for accountability, responsibility and collaboration with others, for example: Councillors, other Boroughs, the communities we serve and partners.
-Work collaboratively across all service areas with other senior managers (including those from partner organisations and agencies) in order to deliver services, generate efficiencies and create synergies wherever possible.
-Lead, manage and develop staff so that they are capable of and motivated to achieve the corporate and service aims and objectives.
-Drive significant cultural change through the corporate infrastructure in order to drive service excellence.
-Be accountable for associated budget and have affordable plans in place to deliver the Medium Term Financial Plan.
-The service area you manage is compliant and performance management is monitored, and remedial action is taken promptly and at pace.

Knowledge, Qualifications, Skills and Experience (in addition to those on generic profile):
-Experience of delivering high visibility leadership and culture change, for large teams of staff in a busy environment.
-Experience of having worked in a political environment advising Elected Members
-Knowledge of benchmarking service provision for improvement purposes.
-Experience of delivering and implementing continuous improvement initiatives with customer satisfaction as the key driver.
-Digitally savvy and comfortable with exploring new ways of working through greater use of technology.
-Good knowledge of customer satisfaction and performance monitoring tools and techniques.
-Ability to set, use and share performance data to drive improvement at a service wide level.
-Passionate about Customer Experience.