Customer Insights Specialist

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A position of Customer Insights Specialist for our Partner Solutions business which exists in the Santam Experience team – the position could be based in either Sandton or Tygervalley.

The purpose of the Customer Insights Specialist is to oversee and enhance all aspects of a customer's interaction with a company, ensuring a positive experience throughout their journey, from initial contact to post-purchase. They focus on improving customer satisfaction, loyalty, and advocacy by analyzing feedback, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and developing strategies to meet and exceed customer expectations. The role also extends to managing and implementing the voices of experiences (VOX) Programme in order to make informed decisions about our business in the interests of our stakeholders based on real-time data.

To help us capture how our customers feel about our business, product, or service, giving us insights that can help us create a stronger customer experience.

The successful incumbent would also need to maintain a close partnership with other teams who collect customer feedback and produce insights like brand perception.

What will make you successful in this role?

• Drive a comprehensive Customer Insights strategy including ownership of tools used
• Drive strategies and execution of plans to advance customer advocacy across channels
• Develop standard processes for measuring insights across journey steps and customer success
• Share the Voices of the Experience (Customer, Employees, Broker, and Suppliers) with executive leadership within the organisation
• Merging all insights across the business and using them to provide comprehensive insights across all functionalities.
• Develop and deepen an understanding of VOX, journey mapping, and insights, products, and offerings to ensure the effective delivery of insights
• Develop and leverage partnerships, both internal and external, and use networks to maximize and meet business goals
• Drive the development of customer insights to make positive changes that will positively affect the customer experience across channels
• Prepare reporting and presentations for different levels of management sharing insights and recommendations on changes to potentially improve products and services.
• Share VoX results with leadership teams to confirm and / or reinforce overall drivers of the customer experience and provide actionable recommendations for both product and service improvements
• Establish cross-functional relationships at the executive and individual contributor levels across different departments / groups to develop a customer survey plan that is aligned across organized customer communications
• Compile reports detailing all metric performance analysis, and continuous improvements for the current suite of survey tools
• Drive a comprehensive Voices of the Experiences strategy, Journey Mapping, etc., including ownership of VOX and JM Tools survey and mapping platforms
• Project manage the development of surveys, analysis, and continuous improvements for the current suite of survey tools
• Identify customer insights and key drivers of negative and positive customer experience based on analysis of both relationship (NPS) and transactional surveys and other feedback sources
• Conduct research within internal teams or with external partners to understand the customer and partner journey
• Make recommendations for operational improvements by analyzing quality performance
• Collaborate across Santam Group business units to develop the ‘What good looks like’ models

Qualification

Knowledge and Experience

Skills

Core Competencies

Cultivates innovation - Contributing through others

Customer focus - Contributing through others

Drives results - Contributing through others

Collaborates - Contributing through others

Being resilient - Contributing through others

About The Company

Santam is committed to diversity, inclusion, and belonging. As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, including persons with disabilities. We are dedicated to neuro-inclusivity and fostering a workplace where everyone can thrive. If you require accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know—we’re here to support you.

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