Job DescriptionRole Overview
The Customer Experience Manager is responsible for leading the end-to-end customer journey across Sales and Support functions, ensuring operational excellence, high-quality service delivery, and alignment between customer experience and business outcomes. This role drives performance through KPIs, SLAs, QA standards, and cross-functional coordination. The role operates within a regulated healthcare environment and is expected to uphold patient safety, data privacy, and clinical compliance standards at all times.
Key Responsibilities1. Customer Journey Ownership
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Own end-to-end customer experience across Sales and Support
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Ensure consistent service quality across all touchpoints
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Identify and remove friction points in the customer journey
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Ensure all customer interactions meet applicable healthcare regulations and patient safety requirements (e.g. HIPAA, local health authority guidelines)
2. Team Leadership & Performance Management
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Lead Sales and Support Team Leads to drive accountability
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Monitor team performance against KPIs and SLAs
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Conduct performance reviews and drive continuous improvement
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Oversee onboarding, coaching, and ongoing training - including mandatory healthcare compliance and clinical sensitivity training
3. KPI, SLA & Quality Management
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Define and track KPIs, SLAs, and QA standards
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Ensure adherence to service quality benchmarks
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Analyze performance data and drive corrective actions
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Maintain QA frameworks that include clinical accuracy, safeguarding protocols, and appropriate triage/escalation to clinical staff where required
4. Escalation Management
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Manage high-priority customer escalations
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Ensure timely resolution of critical cases
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Coordinate with internal stakeholders for issue closure
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Identify and escalate safeguarding concerns or patient safety incidents to the appropriate clinical or compliance teams without delay
5. Cross-Functional Coordination
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Align with medical, product, and operations teams
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Ensure updates in protocols are reflected in customer workflows
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Facilitate smooth communication between departments
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Work closely with clinical governance and compliance teams to ensure contact centre processes remain audit-ready and adhere to relevant regulatory standards
6. Workforce & capacity planning
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Forecast contact volumes and manage staffing levels to maintain SLA targets
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Oversee scheduling, shift planning, and real-time resource management
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Partner with HR on hiring, attrition management, and headcount planning
Requirements
Candidate Requirements
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Minimum 4+ years of experience in Customer Experience, Operations, or Contact Center leadership
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Proven experience managing Sales and/or Customer Support teams
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Strong understanding of KPIs, SLAs, QA frameworks, and CRM systems
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Excellent stakeholder management and cross-functional coordination skills
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Strong analytical and data-driven decision-making ability
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Ability to manage escalations and high-pressure operational environments
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Working knowledge of data privacy regulations relevant to healthcare (e.g. HIPAA, GDPR, or local equivalents)
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Demonstrated ability to manage and develop large teams (10+ agents), including Team Lead layers
Preferred Qualifications
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Medical or healthcare background preferred (strong advantage)
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Experience in healthcare, wellness, or clinical operations environments
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Familiarity with patient journey management or clinical service workflows
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Experience in building or scaling customer experience functions
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Knowledge of workforce management tools (e.g. Verint, Genesys, NICE)
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Experience working within accredited or regulated health services (e.g. CQC, JCI, or equivalent)
Key KPIs
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CSAT / NPS
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Customer wait time (response + queue time)
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Ticket resolution time (TAT)
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Complaint rate
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QA score (accuracy, compliance, SOP adherence)
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SLA adherence rate
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Conversion rate (Sales impact)
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Retention / repeat engagement rate
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Team performance metrics (Sales & Support)
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Safeguarding escalation response time
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Clinical accuracy rate (% of interactions correctly triaged or signposted)
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Abandoned call / contact rate
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Agent attrition rate
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Compliance audit pass rate