Overview of salaries statistics of the profession "Customer Service Associate Jobs in South Africa"

DESCRIPTIONThe Customer Service (Customer Experience and Operations) Country Lead - South Africa. South Africa (ZA) is responsible for the strategic and operational direction, network set up, program management, coordination, quality, productivity and delivery of an exceptional CS for ZA customers. This position will drive operational excellence and best practice adoption, and partner with internal Amazon teams to positively impact customer experience. This role requires a candidate with the ability to drive process improvements, provide deeper insight into the voice of the customer, associate performance, operational efficiency while motivating others to meet the challenges of an extremely customer focused and metrics driven environment. The successful candidate will draw from previous work experience in CS management, international vendor management, and corporate representation.Key job responsibilities• Program and operational leadership to build a highly successful Amazon ZACS team.• Full budget responsibility for ZACS, including single threaded ownership for strategic and financial OP1/OP2 planning and financial results.• Participate in business leadership meetings and act as the voice of the customer; developing and driving strategies and programs which drive a best-in-class CS and customer experience, while contributing to profitability of the organization.• Define and recommend the network strategy for Amazon’s ZACS operations. Identify and evaluate new sourcing opportunities.• Effectively partner and build productive working relationships with peers, leadership, and other departments.• Executive business summaries and presentations, and writing high quality narrative documents for senior leadership.• Detailed reporting and metrics preparation for business reviews.• Act as the advocate and voice of the customer to drive cross functional customer experience improvements.• Management and development of direct team members.• Leverage program management skills to deploy new operations and/or services within the ZACS network.• Assess and prioritize program needs based on rapidly changing business requirements• Executive business summaries and presentations.• Cascade goals across internal and vendor organizations and monitor goal progress.• Identify and eliminate root cause barriers to accuracy, productivity, and quality.• Daily and weekly operations management.• Ensure that the internal and vendor CS controlling/forecasting processes are highly customer focused, operationally effective and cost efficient.• Driving creation of staffing plans, schedules, quality initiatives, process change initiatives, Lean/Kaizen activities, and other Change/Six Sigma initiatives.• Embrace and embed Amazon’s leadership and CS tenets within the ZACS network.• Share operational and quality best practices across the Amazon CS global network.• 10% international travel.Basic qualifications• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.• Minimum 5-7 years’ experience in operations or program management, inhouse and outsource vendor management, or related field with CS background desired.• Demonstrated success in leadership and executive presentation skills.• Experience in highly diverse, international and matrix organizations.• Self-starter, possesses flexibility to work in a fast-changing environment and ambiguous situations.• Strong business analytics skills. Competent managing, delivering and analyzing disparate metrics across operations, finance and customer experience.• Expert skills in Microsoft Excel and Word.• Experience in creating/building new sites/businesses.• Fluent in English, additional languages preferable.Preferred qualificationsExperience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardizationWe are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:Cape Town, ZAFBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 8+ years of delivering cross functional projects experiencePREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS- Experience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardizationAmazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.