Customer Operations & Experience, Senior Manager

At PwC, our people in experience consulting specialise in providing consulting services focused on enhancing customer and employee experiences. These individuals analyse client needs, design and implement experience strategies, and offer guidance and support to help clients create memorable and impactful experiences that drive customer loyalty and employee engagement.Those in experience design at PwC will specialise in designing exceptional customer and employee experiences. Your work will involve utilising human-centred design principles to understand user needs, conduct research, and create intuitive and engaging experiences. Additionally, you will be responsible for collaborating with clients to develop user journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and visual designs that optimise interactions and deliver seamless experiences across various touchpoints.A career in our Customer Operations Transformation practice, with a focus on utilities, will provide you with a unique opportunity to help our clients identify, design, and deliver transformational product and service experiences, enabled by emerging technologies. By focusing on the key problems worth solving and using agile and iterative approaches, we help our clients use the power of technology to launch new products and services, driving innovation and business results. Key areas of focus include but are not limited to contact centre operations, CRM optimization and voice of customer management. Our team aligns customer and employee experiences, and empowers employees to take full advantage of the technology investments, to drive business results, launch products and services, and enable long term sustainable growth. Through the delivery of new products and services, we help organizations to improve customer satisfaction, reduce operating costs and enable the delivery of new products and services. Specifically, the Senior Manager, Experience, will work with the client and PwC colleagues in a co-creative fashion to define the future state customer and employee experience, key moments of truth and define an implementation plan that takes a realistic view of how to achieve the end state over time.

Meaningful work you'll be part of
As a Customer Operations & Experience, Senior Manager , you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve business issues, deliver high quality client service and operational efficiency. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Establish credibility and relationships with prospective clients by demonstrating technical and industry knowledge in utilities customer operations, digital customer experience and service design and identify opportunities for assistance .
• Lead or assist in business development activities including sales, proposals, and building and maintaining sustainable client relationships.
• Manage the end to end delivery (including project economics and risk) of multiple experience consulting projects consisting of multiple resources and teams and ensure the quality of deliverables and clients are satisfied with the work.
• Client delivery - Delivery Engagements (60%), Business development and practice building (40%)
• Developing and implementing multi-channel digital strategies.
• Overseeing service design, digital solution delivery and similar engagements that feature design thinking, human centred design, and agile methods
• Management/oversight of budgets and resource plan for implementation of solution(s).
• Working with diverse teams, including clients and other internal firm capabilities (including analytics, procurement, technology), to scope and sell engagements
• Help define and lead the creation of deliverables
• Lead key aspects of the digital customer transformation process for clients, particularly as it relates to employee or customer experience transformation
• Collaborate and build relationships with colleagues and subject matter experts in other relevant practices across the firm, including technology, HR transformation, digital operations, and more.

Experiences and skills you'll use to solve
• Experience working with organizations helping them digitally transform
• Experience with SAP, Oracle, SEW, Salesforce and other customer platforms is an asset
• Prior consulting experience and/or utilities customer experience required
• Knowledge of utility customer operations in areas such as: Contact Centre, Billing, Field Services, Collections, Outage Management, etc.
• Extensive general experience in the utilities sector gained either through direct industry employment or substantial services to industry
• Leadership experience in a management consulting environment
• Ability to quickly establish credibility with clients by demonstrating subject matter expertise and knowledge in the relevant operation processes
• Design thinking, strong project management, facilitation and delivery skills, service design, ethnography & behavioral Insights, and user research
• Experience designing, conducting, and synthesizing qualitative user research using a range of digital and non-digital tools and techniques
• Product management or product design and prototype development and testing
• Group facilitation and developing and leading co-creation workshops
• Telecom, retail, energy, utilities, and/or mining industry experience is an asset
• Ability to form trusted client relationships

Why you'll love PwC
We're inspiring and empowering our people to change the world. Powered by the latest technology, you'll be a part of diverse teams helping public and private clients build trust and deliver sustained outcomes. This meaningful work, and our continuous development environment, will take your career to the next level. We reward your impact, and support your wellbeing, through a competitive compensation package, inclusive benefits and flexibility programs that will help you thrive in work and life. Learn more about our Application Process and Total Rewards Package at: https://jobs-ca.pwc.com/ca/en/life-at-pwc

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At PwC Canada, our most valuable asset is our people and we grow stronger as we learn from one another. We're committed to creating an equitable and inclusive community of solvers where everyone feels that they truly belong. We understand that experience comes in many forms and building trust in society and solving important problems is only possible if we reflect the mosaic of the society we live in.
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