Group Manager-Strategy_

Indianapolis

Job Title:

Group Manager-Strategy

Job Description

Concentrix Catalyst is a technology-enabled global business services company specializing in customer engagement and improving business performance. We partner with ambitious, progressive companies from around the world to future-proof their business and stay ahead of the competition and customer expectations.

Concentrix Catalyst is searching for a talented CX Engagement Solutions Group Manager to join our experience strategy team while working directly with a leading technology company to help lead them to success. This role will focus on empowering, helping, and advising our client’s customers, solving complex problems for enterprise customers, collaborating and sharing knowledge across the team, and developing innovative solutions that enable customers to make the most of our client’s products.

The team has two main objectives:

+ Understand the journey of every customer, the touchpoints they have, and to identify the moments that truly matter to each customer that engages with our client.

+ Bring digital transformation to the client’s engagement with customers during their journey, to deliver an amazing and personalized experience to each customer.

As a member of this team, you will contribute to the research and design objectives by:

Essential Functions/Core Responsibilities

+ Conduct customer and employee research including research plans, recruitment, interviews, workshops, etc.

+ Demonstrated experience with a wide variety of research methods (e.g., interviewing, workshops, surveys, foundational, qualitative, etc.).

+ Producing discussion guides, personas, customer journeys maps, and service blueprints.

+ Analyzing and synthesizing multiple sources of complex data to form aggregate insights enabling idea finding, problem definition, and opportunity finding for a product/service.

+ Identifying user insights, needs, and suggesting opportunities that span experiences, businesses, and technologies.

+ Envisioning and designing a future state “north star” experience based on your workshops and iterative customer research.

+ Writing executive-level reports that clearly articulate research insights and recommendations. Being an excellent communicator and storyteller that can communicate complex concepts in a manner that excites and creates enthusiasm for the proposed future state experiences.

+ Maintaining constant and open communication with key team members.

+ Ability to see things from various altitudes and communicate holistic solutions.

+ Build trusted client relationships through proactive account management and exceptional project delivery

+ Develop an analytic approach, document tasks and manage timelines for new/existing clients in support of our consulting projects

+ Expertise in Customer Experience Design and Design Thinking.

Required Qualifications

+ 8+ years in user experience research, design research, product research or the equivalent with strong theoretical and practical knowledge of both qualitative and quantitative methodologies

+ 5+ years designing, planning, and facilitating live and virtual Design Thinking workshops

+ 5+ years conducting 1:1 research interviews

+ 5+ years working on experiences that include extensive digital solutions (omni-channel, self-service, AI bots, etc.)

+ 8+ years CX or UX research experience

+ A minimum of a BA/BS degree in Psychology, Human Factors, Sociology, Anthropology, HCI, Interaction Design, Communication Design, Market Research, or equivalent experience

+ Experience with technical language, including being able to technical language specific to the client in the context of their business and coding the research data accordingly

+ Experience working in a fast-paced environment

+ Have a high comfort with ambiguity

+ Experience using Figma

Preferred Qualifications

+ Master or PhD degree in Psychology, Human Factors, HCI, Interaction Design, Communication Design, Architecture, or equivalent experience

+ Design Thinking Certification from an accredited institution

+ Experience with a broad range of research methodologies (qualitative and quantitative techniques) and you understand the right balance between the two

+ Strong grasp and qualitative data analysis

+ Experience using Mural

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Location:

USA, MN, Work-at-Home

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Time Type:

Physical & Mental Requirements: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to operate a computer, keyboard, telephone, headset, and other office equipment. Work is generally sedentary in nature.

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