- Salary
- £60k – £70k/yr
- Location
- Worsley
- Education
- Certification
- Source
- Pinpoint
Description
Head of Customer
Department: United Utilities
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: Worsley
Compensation: £60,000 - £70,000 / year
Description
This is a new, senior role, helping operational teams understand how the work we deliver impacts customers and ensuring we consistently meet the standards expected by our clients and the communities we serveYou will support the Group Customer Strategy, drive improvement in customer performance and work directly with contract teams and client representatives to strengthen how customer outcomes are planned, managed and measured.
The role is about bringing practical leadership to customer performance — supporting contracts to improve where needed, sharing best practice across the business and ensuring customer considerations are built into the way we deliver our work.
Key Responsibilities
Customer Strategy
- Support the development of the Network Plus customer strategy and lead the implementation across UU.
- Set clear standards for customer experience and customer performance across the business.
- Ensure customer considerations are embedded into operational delivery, mobilisation and change programmes.
- Monitor and improve customer performance metrics across the contract.
- Analyse complaints, feedback and customer insight to identify trends and areas for improvement.
- Work with the contract team to address root causes and improve performance.
- Build a clear understanding of the end-to-end customer journey across the work we deliver.
- Identify where operational activities most impact customers and drive improvements in those areas.
- Use customer insight and feedback to improve processes, communication and delivery standards.
- Build strong relationships with client customer leads in UU.
- Represent Network Plus in customer performance reviews and discussions with the client.
- Ensure alignment between client expectations and how Network Plus delivers work on the ground.
- Provide leadership and direction to the customer teams across UU.
- Promote consistent customer processes, reporting and performance management.
- Support operational teams in understanding how their work impacts customers and how this can be improved.
Experience and Qualifications
- Experience leading customer performance or customer experience within utilities, infrastructure or operational delivery environments.
- Strong understanding of regulatory customer performance requirements across Gas, Water and Electricity sectors, including how regulatory measures influence contract delivery and customer outcomes.
- Experience working across multiple contracts or business areas.
- Strong stakeholder management and the ability to influence operational teams.
- Experience managing complaints, customer feedback and service improvement programmes.
- Ability to translate customer insight into practical operational improvements.
- Confident working with both internal teams and client representatives.