Management Consultant
CurrentGeneral advisory and consultancy services in the "customer" space across customer service and marketing, helping organisations improve business results by changing how they deal with customersBoard and Executive level supportMentoring and coachingEngagements include • Collaborating with professional services companies to provide specific expertise to fulfil briefs with clients and find solutions to specific issues• Shaping and supporting tactical and strategic customer experience initiatives at John Lewis & Partners, a well-known UK retailer• Improving customer experience in the Republic of Ireland for Finning UK, the UK and Ireland's largest Caterpillar equipment dealer - journey mapping, finding the places where pain exists, and where customers feel that their expectations aren’t met, and developing recommendations of key actions to improve the customer experience• Transforming complaint handling for Commercial Banking at HSBC, one of the world's largest banks - creating a new Service Recovery function to support frontline colleagues to resolve complaints at the first point of contact, to act as a point of escalation for complex issues and provide root cause analysis of complaints to drive change and implement fixes (delivering significant reduction in time to resolve, lower complaint volumes and improved customer satisfaction)• Customer journey analysis and redesign to reduce the time to open a business bank account whilst embracing regulatory requirements (resulting in less drop outs and cost savings) for HSBC bank• Shaping the case for change and proposals for organisational changes required to succeed for Element Six, a leading supplier of synthetic diamond super materials embarking on a B2B customer experience and customer service transformation programme • Supplying customer experience expertise to a US start up company providing marketing and customer service automation e.g. the use of email, SMS, interactive voice and virtual agent solutions