Customer Experience Owner

The Customer Experience Owner is responsible for select client or program CX, designing, executing, and optimizing end to end experiences within those clients or programs and collaborating cross functionally to achieve those goals.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Designs and optimize end to end customer experience through the use of CX methodology and supporting tools (e.g. Blueprints, Experience Maps, CX Design Flows)
- Leverages human-centered design when creating artifacts
- Completes research as necessary to build/maintain knowledge related to industry, market, clients, and consumers (e.g. researching competition, best practices, etc.)
- Responsible for stakeholder management and ongoing management of all artifacts
- Collaborates with product, and project managers to define solutions and influence priority
- Creates CX updates for Client QBRs
- Reviews proposed product/process changes and provide feedback/recommendations
- Lead customer communication strategy for relevant clients/products/services
- Monitors program performance by evaluating analysis and insights and working with the appropriate areas/departments to implement a change. Engage cross-functional teams when necessary to troubleshoot or resolve identified breakdowns having a significant impact on NPS.
- Recommends improvements based on business cases created from findings, present suggestions to functional business leads
- Creates CBA to demonstrate business value of CX initiatives.

**Required skills/experience**:

- Bachelor’s degree or 3 yrs. equivalent work experience. Preferred Master’s degree
- A minimum of 3 years’ experience translating client/customer needs to customer journeys as well as company policies, procedures, operations, and detailed process flow maps
- A minimum of 3 years’ experience utilizing CX methodologies such as blueprints, experience maps, human centered design principles)
- A minimum of 3 years’ experience leading projects cross-functionally or 3 years’ experience in a client facing role managing relationships
- Strong cognitive skills, experience in root cause analysis, and ability to make decisions with mínimal direction
- Basic understanding of best practices for implementing a voice-of-the-customer program, including selecting appropriate listening posts based on the channel and type of touchpoint
- Ability to organize both structured and unstructured data into charts, graphs, and tables for purposes of communicating information
- Basic analytical skills, including the ability to leverage critical thinking to evaluate and organize available data, identify relationships, and summarize results. Includes moderate Excel experience, including the ability to create pivot tables and combine multiple tables (such as through VLOOKUP)
- In-depth understanding of process improvement approach, including leveraging analysis and critical thinking to identify opportunities for improvement, and quickly evaluating potential solutions for feasibility & reasonableness. Able to identify key performance indicators to measure before & after changes to determine improvement effectiveness and identify unintended consequences
- Ability to create basic ROI model
- 20% Travel and willingness to videoconference
- At Assurant, we celebrate the differences that make us who we are. By assembling extraordinary teams from a variety of races, religions, sexual orientations, gender identities, ages, experiences, and abilities, we’re able to better reflect the global communities where we live and work. By working to remove barriers, we ensure equity for everyone. The pursuit of inclusion rests with each of us. Because it’s only by listening to and representing the unique voices of every individual that we can innovate for all. _

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**What’s the culture like at Assurant?**
Our unique culture is a big reason why talented people choose Assurant. Named a Best/Great Place to Work in 15 countries and awarded the Fortune America’s Most Innovative Companies recognition, we bring together top talent around the world. Although we have a wide variety of skills and experiences, we share common characteristics that are uniquely Assurant. A passion for service. An ability to innovate in practical ways. And a willingness to take chances. We call our culture The Assurant Way.

**Company Overview**
Assurant is a leading global business services company that supports, protects, and connects major consumer purchases. A Fortune 500 company with a presence in 21 countries, Assurant supports the advancement of the connected world by partnering with the world’s leading brands to develop innovative solutions and deliver an enhanced customer experience through mobile device solutions, extended service contracts, vehicle protection services, renters insurance, lender-placed insurance products, and other specialty products.

**Equal Opportunity Statement**
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