About the Role
The Customer Experience Manager leads and optimizes the end-to-end customer journey across service delivery, training, pricing integrity, and project quoting to ensure a seamless, efficient, and value-driven experience. This role supports sales growth, margin optimization, and operational excellence by integrating commercial acumen with customer-centric leadership to strengthen customer retention, drive revenue growth, and improve process performance.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and develop the Customer Service team to deliver exceptional service standards.
- Establish and monitor KPIs including response times, resolution rates, customer satisfaction, and service quality.
- Oversee order processing, customer inquiries, complaints handling, and after-sales support.
- Identify and implement continuous improvement initiatives to enhance service efficiency.
- Partner with Sales, Operations, and Finance to ensure alignment across customer touchpoints.
- Provide leadership and direction to the Customer Training Coordinator.
- Ensure training content remains current, accurate, and aligned with product updates, compliance requirements, and customer needs.
- Oversee training schedules and resource planning.
- Monitor training effectiveness, customer feedback, and participation metrics.
- Identify opportunities to enhance customer capability, improve product adoption, and support long-term customer retention.
- Support the professional development and performance of the Customer Training Coordinator.
- Oversee pricing processes, approvals, and governance frameworks.
- Ensure pricing accuracy across systems and documentation.
- Collaborate with Sales and Finance to balance competitiveness and margin targets.
- Support pricing reviews, discount approvals, and contract renewals.
- Analyze pricing trends, margin performance, and customer profitability.
- Lead or oversee the preparation of accurate and timely project quotations.
- Ensure alignment between scope, costings, margins, and customer expectations.
- Partner with Sales and Operations to ensure feasibility and profitability of quoted work.
- Implement controls to minimize quoting errors and commercial risk.
- Track quote-to-order conversion rates and identify improvement opportunities.
- Map and optimize the end-to-end customer journey.
- Use customer feedback, NPS, or service metrics to drive improvements.
- Lead cross-functional initiatives to enhance customer satisfaction and operational performance.
- Implement systems, automation, or workflow improvements where appropriate.
- Provide clear direction, coaching, and performance management to direct reports.
- Build capability across customer-facing teams.
- Foster a high-performance, collaborative, and customer-centric culture.
- Support workforce planning and resource allocation.
Requirements
- Proven leadership experience in Customer Service, Commercial Operations, or Customer Experience.
- Strong commercial acumen including pricing and margin management.
- Experience in project quoting, tender preparation, or estimating.
- Demonstrated ability to improve processes and lead change initiatives.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Experience in technical, industrial, B2B, or project-based environments.
- Exposure to ERP/CRM systems.
- Experience managing cross-functional teams.
- Computer literacy in Word, PowerPoint, Excel etc.
- Able to demonstrate high-level decision-making skills.
- Able to demonstrate self-management skills.
- Excellent time management skills.
- High-level communication and presentation skills.
- Organized and systemic thinking skills.
- Comfortable working in a large organization with a matrix organizational structure.
- Have a ‘can do’ attitude and mentality.
- Effective communication skills at all levels.
- Demonstrates appropriate professional workplace behavior that is in line with the company values, policies, and procedures.
Skills
- Customer Service Leadership
- Customer Training
- Pricing Strategy & Governance
- Project Quoting & Commercial Support
- Customer Experience & Process Improvement
- Leadership & Team Development
- Computer literacy
- Decision making
- Self-management
- Time management
- Communication
- Presentation skills
- Organized and systemic thinking
- Stakeholder management
Location
- Mixed office and warehouse environment
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Proven leadership experience
- Experience managing cross-functional teams
Education Level
- Business related tertiary qualification
About the Company
- Watts Water is a global leader of quality water solutions for residential, industrial, municipal, and commercial settings.
- Our family of brands offers some of the most varied product lines in the world, with world-class, water-related solutions focused on: Drainage and Water Reuse, HVAC and Hot Water, Plumbing and Flow Control, Water Quality and Rainwater Harvesting.
- We are a $1.9 billion global company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) with a presence in five (5) continents and twenty-four (24) countries, and an employee population that speaks over eighteen (18) languages.
- As a people-first company, we prize enriching and caring for all who work here not only through words but through actions.
- This includes executing our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) strategy, and providing our employees with meaningful career growth opportunities, a positive and safe work environment, and affirmation that they are heard, valued, and respected.
- We are proud to be an organization that believes that a safer world is a more sustainable world – a belief that we proudly reflect in each of our technologies and solutions and our environmental and social commitments, such as our partnership with Planet Water Foundation.
- Learn more about the Watts way, here.
- Specialties Plumbing, HVAC, Water Quality, and Gas
- Headquarters Americas & Corporate Headquarters: North Andover, Massachusetts, USA
- Asia-Pacific, Middle East & Africa (APMEA) Headquarters: Shanghai, China
- Company Size About 5,000 employees
- Website http://www.watts.com/ http://www.wattsindustries.com/ http://www.wattsasia.com/
- Industry Machinery
- Founded 1874
