In this newly created position, The Senior Manager, Customer Experience plays a critical role supporting the development and delivery of AFCA’s Customer Experience strategy. The Senior Manager will develop and drive our Customer Experience strategy whilst leading our current Member & Customer Experience team members. This is a newly created opportunity and exciting chance to have a real impact on our Customer Experience journey at AFCA.

Working closely with the Head of Membership Services, this role will support the creation and successful delivery of operational excellence customer experience best practice. The role will lead a team of skilled customer experience professionals and support teams by leading the development of the customer experience framework for consumers and members. The Senior Manager role will identify, support and drive process recommendations, end to end reviews and support AFCA to identify opportunities for improvement always with a focus of best practice customer experience.

Typically, in this role you will:

• Lead the development of the Customer Experience Strategy at AFCA
• Develop, facilitate and collate Consumer and Member research and feedback activities including surveys, focus groups, and other voice of customer inputs.
• Use this data to inform best practice and prioritisation of activities across AFCA, working closely with Operational Excellence, Operational Delivery, Rules and Decision makers
• Work closely with external stakeholders, industry groups and regulators
• Create and execute a body of work to drive customer excellence, being data driven, curious and focused on what it means to provide customer experience best practice
• Create and maintain a calendar of events for member engagement, including forums, webinars, roadshows
• Lead the content development for consumer and member engagements as above, plus newsletters and other communications
• Project management and coordination that is required to seamlessly deliver these engagements
• Change management with members and internal stakeholders helping drive execution of suggested recommendations
• Build and maintain strong relationships with operational teams and work closely with an aligned approach to building value for our customers

As our casual Customer Service Agent, you will provide professional and efficient first points of contact for our customers and visitors within our facilities.  

Being a member of our Customer Service team, you’ll ensure a great experience in all contacts, both reactive and proactive, to achieve the best service outcomes for customers. In addition to this you’ll act as concierge for your facility; this entails coordinating the logistics and accurate documentation of deliveries. 

We have opportunities for experienced customer centric individuals to join us on a Casual basis with the potential to work across our Melbourne site. Work the hours that work for you! 

• Working location: Port Melbourne, Tullamarine, West Footscray
• Working hours:15-25 hours/week, preferably with a minimum 3 working days of availability

To be successful in this role you’ll have: 

Customer Focus 

• Greet all visitors to facility in a timely, courteous, and professional manner. 
• Work with internal teams around the country to deliver a seamless customer experience. 
• Provide accurate advice and guidance on customer service requests and incidents. 

Concierge 

• Take telephone calls to facility from both internal and external customers. 
• Assist with coordination of customer and company events and activities at facility. 
• Conduct site inductions with visitors, in coordination with Facilities team, and scan induction paperwork. 
• Conduct audits of critical facility stock and replenish levels as required on: 

Support 

• Provide prompt and friendly communication to customers in person, via telephone, email, and ticketing system. 
• Action internal and external customer requests via all the internal request systems; email, via phone or face to face.  
• Provide first level resolution where possible or escalate requests and incident to the appropriate resolver group.

About the opportunity

Join our Global Operations Team as a Customer Support Team Lead in Melbourne to make a real impact every day. We say that because we know that every conversation we have, every code line we write and every interface we design is another opportunity for us to enrich our customers’ experiences.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Software Support, you'll help us drive engagement, excellence, and a focus on building relationships with our customers and colleagues, whilst meeting and exceeding service levels agreements for the resolution of support tickets. You'll also lead a team of Software Support professionals to meet the needs of our customers on software related enquiries. 

Some of the other responsibilities include:

• Manage a small offshore & regional team of customer support advisors in the delivery of software customer service   

• Collaborate with engineering peers to provide customer resolutions within agreed SLAs, advocating customer needs to effectively prioritise support ticket resolution  
• Partner with leadership and commercial teams to identify and plan essential work in the context of software support  
• Ensure that the team adheres to regional policies within software support for Xplor products  
• Contribute to frameworks and internal resources to support the resolution of technical issues within your team  
• Periodically review software support log(s); track performance and identify trends, anomalies, and opportunities for improvement  
• Proactively engage and upskill yourself in new iterations of the software along with your team  
• Find new ways to reduce the average ticket turnaround time and improve SLAs  
• Optimise, standardise, and manage Support metrics across all channels (call centre, online chat, email) to ensure customer satisfaction, and report statistical performance levels 

For this position, we offer a hybrid and flexible working model, where you will spend 2-3 days per week in the office and the rest working from home.

As a high-growth tech company selling software in a competitive global market, the work is not easy. But it’s interesting and super fun. As the Customer Success Consultant, your primary purpose is to ensure our customers get, and keep getting value from their investment in Phocas. You strive to retain our customers, turn them into advocates for Phocas and proactively identify opportunities for further revenue growth within our existing customer base.

It’s what our consultants love about the work. Because it gives meaning to their roles. Oh, and did we mention it was fun?
No? Well, you’re in for a good time.

Here’s how you’ll do that

• Proactively drive activities that increase brand awareness, product presence and user adoption. This could be through regular customer account reviews, product demonstration, customer training, events and other marketing activities
• Provide exceptional service and support, and ensure the customer is gaining value from their investment through coaching, advice and training
• Guiding clients through onboarding, issue resolution, and adoption phases with your fantastic communication and training abilities
• Identify new business opportunities within the account for revenue growth
• Collaborate with global colleagues to continuously improve products, internal processes and documentation as they relate to customer success

This is what you’ll need to do it

• A love of working with customers and developing long-term value
• Excellent presentation, training and communication skills
• You enjoy building rapport with your customers, and staying up to date with product enhancements and features
• Financial planning, accounting, or financial modeling knowledge, as well as an understanding of ERPs is essential
• Solid understanding of business needs and customer focus with a dedication to customer experience
• Previous experience within a Customer Success role within SaaS

A bit about us to see if we’re a match for your enthusiasm

We’re a business planning and analytics company on a mission to make people feel good about data. We’ve been hard at it for 20+ years, helping 2,300 companies turn complex business data into performance boosting results. Despite our global status, we’ve held on to our start-up roots. The result is a workplace that’s fast, exciting and designed for fun.

Create your happy place!

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Phocas is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology or another related subject. In lieu of degree, relevant equivalent experience required.
• Minimum 3 years’ prior experience working in Customer Success or Account Management roles
• Proven track record of meeting or exceeding retention goals / customer satisfaction metrics
• Experience with Phocas or related products – other BI, CRM, ERP software products

• Previous experience working within the SaaS/IT industry
• Familiarity with financial planning, accounting, or financial modeling is essential