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As the Service Delivery Director you are accountable for defining front line customer service strategy for our Viator-Experiences business. Hands on leader to ensure an effortless customer resolution first time, every time. Responsible for booking assistance, booking tours and activities, supporting our travelers, Travel Agents and Merchant Partners. Hybrid working across our Oxford and London offices. Performance management of our front-line outsourced operations and point of contact for all business escalations managing in-house resolution teams. You will champion our operational excellence culture with a customer centric focus in all decision making. This role will enable our next-generation customer experience of removing customer friction, embedding AI-Tooling, developing customer self-solve solutions and ensuring fast, effortless processes. Operating in our fast-moving and highly competitive environment, part of a team that are embedded advocates for our customers in our behaviour and decision making to win our customers. At Tripadvisor we are customer first in all decision making.
Job Responsibility:
Drive the strategy for customer first service delivery with omni-channel support with blended Vendor & In-house teams
Define BPO performance strategy, defining measurable improvements for customer-sentiment and resolution
Define service-solutions to reduce contact-propensity through product, policy and process improvement
Strategic review of operational network and define 2-4yr operational footprint
Point of contact for all business escalations to resolve and retain our customers
Stay connected to customer needs ensuring we win
Deliver exceptional front line team quality delivery, through team knowledge, process & product expertise
Identify, build and evolve global training programs to enhance product knowledge and service capability
Take the lead on collaborating with business partners company wide to identify key customer improvement opportunities
Build trusted relationships with internal business units (Product, Engineering, Commercial, Legal) and external vendors
Implement Service Excellence initiatives, projects and programs, measuring the uplift in customer sentiment
Manage, coach, mentor and inspire a global team of service professionals
Build a pipeline of talent and succession plans with apprenticeships
Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and innovation across geographies
Empower your people to execute at speed with an open mindset to elevate operations in a trusted environment
Responsible for line of business budgets and finances
Define project ROI investments
Compensation strategy to resolve and retain
Requirements:
Director+ level with 10+ years experience in Customer Operations, Service Excellence or CX Transformation
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent related experience
Managed both Global Vendor BPO Operations and In-house escalation or resolution teams
Demonstrated success leading a team
previous experience leading Managers and Team Leads
Strong commercial awareness, with the ability to balance resolution experience with efficiency
Close-Loop resolution for product or process blockers causing customer friction with measured impact
Relentless collaboration building strong stakeholder relationships to influence and execute
Customer obsessed mindset, advocating for simplicity and putting yourself in the shoes of the customer
Traveler first: drive exceptional value and effortless resolution service-support
Execution at speed: Challenge legacy processes, experiment, seeks to always improve
Communication: strong influencing skills with ability to articulate issues to C-Level leadership
Strategic thinker: with strong influence skills and ability to leveraging data
Data Driven: Leverage data to identify improvement opportunities, A/B test mindset
Industry: Experience in a similar role within the Travel Industry
Demonstrated ability to use AI tools to improve efficiency, quality, and decision-making in day-to-day work
Proven ability to operate effectively with a global-first mindset
Nice to have:
Experience in a similar role within the Travel Industry
What we offer:
Competitive compensation packages (routinely benchmarked against the latest industry data), including base salary and annual bonuses
“Work your way” with flexibility to suit your lifestyle