Jobs and Vacancies in Wananchi Group, Nairobi, Kenya

Wananchi Group (K) Ltd

Job Title: Customer Retention Supervisor
Department: Customer Service Dept
Location: Nairobi
Position Reporting to:Manager, Retention
Company Profile: The Wananchi Group is Africa’s pioneering provider of Triple Play (broadband, multi-channel television and voice telephony) and VSAT (broadband data and internet) services. We’re in the process of rolling out Africa’s most innovative cable network to complement the existing VSAT infrastructure and are seeking to recruit ambitious, dynamic and innovative individuals who will drive our growth.
Job Purpose: Responsible for serving as the focal point and resource for all matters related to retaining customers who are requesting disconnects. Leads a team of outbound Customer Retention Reps ensures delivery of all customer retention goals, manages hourly, daily, monthly goals, drives efficiencies, and overall performance levels.
Leads, coaches, and mentors a team of Customer Retention Reps responsible for assessing customer situations requesting disconnects, resolving customer concerns, retaining customers and providing best in class service to customers.
Key Roles:
·         Leads a team of Customer Retention Reps to achieve internal performance metrics and external customer expectations as appropriate.
·         Coaches, mentors, develops and provides support to the team of Customer Retention Reps responsible for resolving customer concerns
·         Ensure launching all retention initiatives and come up with new ongoing campaigns
·         Designing and monitoring of daily/weekly/monthly analytical reviews on churn trends, churn dash boards & competition overcoming customer objections and retaining customers.
·         Consistently delivers upon leadership expectations, conducting one on one meetings with team members, Analyzes reports/data to develop recommendations and implement solutions focused on improving the organization-s satisfaction of customer expectations and responding to the causes of customer dissatisfaction.
·         Regularly monitors reps and team-s performance, holding employees accountable for productivity and quality expectations.
·         Ensures consistency of monitoring, coaching in content, methods and procedures, and corrective action processes.
·         Ensures visibility and accessibility to assist Retention Reps on the floor.
·         Develops and maintains relationships with department peers focused of collaboration, honesty, integrity, and respect for each other.
·         Implements team training plans and achieves required timelines.
·         Uses a variety of tools to effectively recognize employees for outstanding performance.
·         Meets deadlines, delivers on commitments internally and cross-functionally.
·         Performs special projects and duties as required.
·         Prioritizes, plans and executes to achieve goals.
·         Works with urgency, respect and integrity. Inspires and delivers results.
·         Performs other duties as required.
Experience and Background Needed:
·         Prior leadership experience preferred
·         Solid understanding of sales and ability to be self motivated
·         Proven self-starter with strong organizational skills
·         Superior telephone and verbal communication skills
·         Ability to effectively and sensitively communicate technical and financial information
·         Ability to work in a fast paced and high pressure work environment
·         Ability to work independently as well as within a team
·         College degree



Job Title: Team Leader, Retention
Department: Customer Experience
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Employment Status: Full Time
Position Reporting to:Head of Customer Experience
Manages Others: Yes
Titles & Number of Positions Managed: 3
Job Purpose / Summary: Responsible for leading a team in the design, implementation and execution of strategies that drive customer retention, loyalty, share and revenue growth. Make recommendations to improve on subscriber billing, payment channels and posting, retention processes and exposure to risk
Key Roles:
·         Defining and measuring Customer Satisfaction and Promoter KPI’s, identifying risks and opportunities and implementing improvement plans.
·         Manage service support for medium value base and resources & KPI’s dedicated to the segment
·         Designing programs that strengthen customer relationship, proactively minimize non payer customers, increase customer retention and minimize churn through customer win-backs.
·         Leading the customer base analytics, identifying opportunities, designing and implementing up-selling/cross-selling campaigns that increase customer share and sustainable revenue growth.
·         Provide daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reports on customer retention activities to keep HOD and management updated, and to support informed decisions on revenue/retention goals.
Key Performance Indicators:
·         Achieve budgeted financial goals in the key customer retention KPI’s (timely payment, non-payer disconnects, churn, arpu).
·         Lead the creation of different Customer Experience feedback tools. Define, plan and execute Customer Satisfaction Surveys and Promoter type KPI’s, analyzing results and implementing improvement plans. Develop a detailed strategic roadmap that leads toward the implementation of a continuous enhancement of customer satisfaction.
·         Research, analyze and monitor metrics and customer segments to uncover and capitalize on retention, win-back, up-selling and arpu enhancement opportunities.
·         Design specific campaigns, in collaboration with Marketing, which will be used for retention and upgrade. Implement the campaigns and measure results taking corrective actions to ensure targets are met.
·         Establish campaign objective’s, workforce size and budgets, measure results and provide the ad hoc reporting for the platforms management.
·         Lead the loyalty and retention functions to build diagnostic, descriptive and predictive models, creating proactive and reactive loyalty and retention strategies and programs.
·         Deliver appropriate in-depth analytics to understand the levers that drive customer churn.
·         Through the customer base analytics monitor product life cycle propose refinement in pricing & product and determine possible Support models based on customer segmentation and customer value.
·         Define, plan and execute Customer Satisfaction Surveys and Promoter type KPI’s, lead the analysis of results and provide stakeholders with meaningful information that enable them to define improvement plans.
·         Build diagnostic, descriptive and predictive models that provide the appropriate data to create proactive and reactive loyalty and retention strategies and programs. Deliver appropriate in-depth analytics to understand the levers that drive customer churn.
·         Drive the CRM-based analysis of customer related information -demographic, business and behavioral for the identification of loyalty and retention strategies, cross & up selling opportunities and data feedback for product definition and improvement in other functional areas.
·         Lead the customer base analytics to provide relevant information by customer segmentation and customer value that enables monitoring of product life cycle to.
·         Ensure that 100% of the collections are done on each account.
·         Monitors monthly payment plans of companies with unique billing plans.
Desired Qualifications
·         A university Degree in a Business related field
·         Sale/Customer Service background
·         MS Office, ERP
·         Customer centric, self-drive, sales oriented
·         2 years’ leadership in service industry
·         Understanding customer Retention milestones
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates to submit their application including a detailed CV and day time telephone contact to recruit@ke.wananchi.com on or before 30th July 2018.
The subject line Team Leader – Retention.
Wananchi Group is an equal opportunity employer and will offer competitive remuneration and benefits to the right candidate.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
Note: Canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification.