In my essence I simply serve customers, understanding their needs and satisfying them, better still delighting them by understanding them and creating a great experience. In practise I am a strategic leader who draw's on my experience as CS Director in large business units and then leader of the Global Customer Service Function. I take the organisation’s goals, stakeholders’ needs and the Voice of the Customer, creating pragmatic, deliverable Customer Experience transformation strategies to create a low effort high value experience. First redesigning processes around the customer touch points and the customer journey, then implementing technology to enable the processes and KPIs to measure the experience. I also transform the organisation to one capable of executing the processes, supported by people development and trainingI have implemented strategies to drive change, increase performance or efficiency, generate higher customer satisfaction. I deploy customer centric measures to evaluate the customer experience, measure success, monitor performance and for reward and recognition, keeping the focus on what the customer will see, hear, feel, touch, experience.I also heed the Voice of the Employee:If your business has a challenge, ask yourself who knows your business best? Your people probably have the solution you need if you allow them the voice to speak and allow yourself to listen. Its your job to then recognise their contribution when they are right.Key Skills:~Strategic Thinking and Planning~Strategy Execution~Highly Customer Centric & Customer Experience oriented~Relentless focus on budgeting, cost control and performance management.~Effective stakeholder management~Mentoring & Personal DevelopmentTurning a situation into an opportunity, I’ve taken my first and only career break to decide what comes next and I'm open to suggestions. I’m interested to hear what you think. Call or email me so we can talk: garymarkburgess@gmail.com +44 7833 775146
Listed skills include Customer Experience, Strategy, Leadership, Change Management, and 25 others.