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SEACOM South Africa

Senior Manager: Customer Experience

Johannesburg

Senior Manager: Customer Experience

SEACOM South Africa | Johannesburg

JOB DESCRIPTION

The successful candidate will report to the GM: Customer Experience, and will be responsible for, inter alia, the following:

Key Responsibility: Leadership & Process Oversight

Core Tasks:

  • Provide strategic oversight and leadership to ensure efficient processes that enable rapid execution of delivery.
  • Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and excellence across departments, ensuring alignment with SEACOM’s customer-focused goals.

Key Responsibility: Stakeholder Engagement

Core Tasks:

  • Act as the primary facilitator between Service Delivery and departments such as Sales, Product, Access Planning, Procurement, and Sales Enablement.
  • Drive alignment on priorities and expectations to ensure seamless cross-departmental coordination for deal timelines.
  • Represent Service Delivery in strategic discussions to ensure customer-focused outcomes are prioritized.

Key Responsibility: Operational Efficiency

Core Tasks

  • Streamline processes to ensure quick and efficient deal transitions from sales closure to the Service Delivery team.
  • Identify and eliminate bottlenecks in the deal handover process, reducing lead times for service delivery initiation.
  • Monitor and optimize workflows across internal teams to ensure on-time and budget-aligned delivery.

Key Responsibility: Performance Monitoring & Reporting

Core Tasks

  • Track and report on delivery progress, quality metrics, and process efficiencies to the GM.
  • Establish and review KPIs to measure the effectiveness of delivery processes and ensure alignment with business objectives.
  • Provide data-driven insights to support continuous improvement and enhance customer satisfaction.

Key Responsibility: Continuous Improvement & Customer Experience Enhancement

Core Tasks

  • Champion initiatives to improve delivery speed, quality, and overall customer experience.
  • Facilitate feedback loops from both internal teams and customers to refine processes and address evolving needs.
  • Collaborate with the GM to refocus efforts within the Customer Experience portfolio, ensuring SEACOM’s delivery practices stay innovative and customer centric.

EDUCATION:

  • Bachelor’s degree in BA, Engineering, Project Management or Operations Management.
  • PMP Certification
  • Agile Certification
  • Lean Six Sigma
  • PRINCE 2 qualified
  • ITIL
  • Customer Experience Certificates, Licenses, Registrations.

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE:

  • Team Leadership skills & experience previous Management Experience
  • Good Business acumen
  • Good understanding of project delivery cycle
  • Basic Financial Accounting (CAPEX, OPEX, TCO, NPV, EBITDA etc.)
  • Customer Experience Methodology
  • Customer Lifecycle Methodology
  • PDLC (Product Development Life Cycle) experience
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Change Management
  • ITIL & eTOM understanding
  • Process Mapping Methodology
  • 5+ years’ experience in the ICT sector
  • Understanding of Business processes
  • Understanding of business systems
  • Knowledge/Experience in Telecommunications industry

​REQUIRED KEY COMPETENCIES/ATTRIBUTES:

  • Strategic Leadership
  • Customer-Centric Mindset
  • Service Delivery/Project Management Expertise
  • Stakeholder management
  • Escalation management
  • Results management
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Decision making
  • ‘can do’ approach
  • Relationship management
  • Team Leader
  • Senior Manager skills
  • Planning and execution
  • Problem solving
  • Collaboration and Teamwork
  • Cross Cultural Competence
  • Listening
  • EQ – Emotional Intelligence
  • Accountable for results
  • Influences and energizes others

Interested people should please submit an updated and condensed CV by clicking Apply Now.

Why Work With Us?

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Our dynamic working environment means that every day can bring new and exciting challenges, giving us the opportunity to grow, adapt, share and learn from ourselves and others.

If this sounds like your kind of business and your kind of people, then apply to join our dedicated team of innovative, inspired and performance driven people today.

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