About the Role
This is a highly visible leadership role, combining customer experience strategy, operational excellence, and team leadership. The Head of Customer Experience will act as the voice of the customer across the business, ensuring a seamless and consistent experience across all touchpoints. They will lead the front-of-house/customer support function, oversee customer engagement initiatives, drive additional revenue and engagement streams, and help shape the long-term customer journey.
Responsibilities
- Developing and implementing customer experience strategies that improve retention, engagement, and lifetime value.
- Using customer data, attendance patterns, and behavioral insights to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Designing customer journeys for new, existing, at-risk, and returning customers.
- Leading and developing the customer support and front-of-house teams, ensuring consistently high service standards.
- Working closely with operations, marketing, and people teams to ensure decisions are informed by customer needs.
- Overseeing additional premium service offerings and ensuring they are effectively integrated into the wider customer journey.
- Spending regular time on-site to understand customer behavior, gather feedback, and support teams.
- Identifying and implementing improvements to systems, processes, and customer communications.
- Driving initiatives that strengthen customer loyalty, advocacy, and brand connection.
Requirements
- Commercially minded customer experience leader with a strong track record of improving customer retention and service delivery.
- Experience leading customer-facing teams and driving service excellence.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into action.
- A customer-first mindset balanced with commercial awareness.
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- Ability to build trusted relationships with both customers and internal teams.
- Comfortable operating strategically while remaining close to day-to-day delivery.
- Proactive, solutions-focused, and motivated to continually improve the customer experience.
- Passion for creating environments where customers feel valued, supported, and connected.
Skills
- Customer experience strategy
- Operational excellence
- Team leadership
- Customer data analysis
- Customer journey design
- Stakeholder management
- Influencing skills
- Relationship building
Location
- Multiple London locations
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Leadership role
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
About the Company
- Our client is a premium, membership-led wellness and fitness business with an established reputation for delivering exceptional customer experiences.
- With a loyal member base and multiple locations, the business is entering its next phase of growth.
