About Company:
Husk Power Systems (“Husk”) is an award-winning clean energy company serving rural India and Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2023, it was named “World’s Best Challenger Brand” in the energy industry and is a 3-time Global Cleantech 100 company. The company’s AI-powered rural energy platform provides 24/7 renewable power to rural households, commercial customers, institutions, and small factories. It also delivers a range of other products and services, including e-commerce and credit financing of branded appliances for home and commercial use, as well as community-based solutions for e-mobility and the agricultural value chain. Husk’s mission is to superchange economic growth and social well-being in rural communities that are unserved and underserved.
Job Description:
- We are recruiting for a DGM, Customer Experience to champion its “Customer First” principle for its Nigeria business verticals.
- This role is a leadership role that requires a strategic thinking individual, to drive engagement strategies to ensure Customer Lifetime Value is maximised aligning with functional leadership and providing support in driving best practices across the business.
- The DGM, Customer Experience serves as the strategic leader responsible for shaping, executing, and continuously improving Husk Power Systems’ Customer Experience and Engagement agenda across Nigeria.
- The role drives a unified customer-centric culture that strengthens loyalty, reduces churn, and enhances the lifetime value of every customer served.
- As the voice of the customer at the leadership table, this role ensures that customer insights are systematically integrated into operational decisions, commercial strategies, and brand positioning.
- This role will lead both the strategic and operational dimensions of customer engagement, combining data-driven analytics, cross-functional coordination, and innovation to ensure superior service delivery and measurable business impact.
- The position requires exceptional leadership, communication, and analytical capabilities to balance strategic vision with daily execution excellence across multiple service channels.
- The candidate will also have a track record of proven leadership abilities (communication, relationship building, training & development, etc.) and should also be passionate about contributing to solving one of Nigeria’s most critical challenges – the energy access deficit.
Key Responsibilities
General:
- Work closely with other members of the Nigerian Minigrids Business and Senior Management Teams to deliver on country business objectives.
- Support the optimization of various Husk NG activities to ensure best practices are entrenched towards more efficient processes.
- Support in driving “Best Practices” across the business. Once a “Best Practice” has been identified, ensure that the practice is visible nationally and to another subsidiary.
- Support efforts in the training and mentoring of new employees for capacity-building purposes.
- Understand the priorities of the country operations and support the Country Team when required.
- Provide requisite support and inputs on building and aligning various company processes and policies according to global best practices.
- Other duties may be assigned from time to time.
Strategic Leadership and Customer Excellence:
- Develop, implement, and sustain a Customer Engagement Strategy aligned with Husk Nigeria’s growth and retention goals.
- Champion a “Customer-First” mindset across all departments, embedding customer excellence as a business-wide KPI.
- Establish, monitor, and continuously improve global-standard benchmarks such as NPS, CSAT, CES, and churn reduction.
- Influence product, commercial, and operational decisions with actionable customer insights to drive business outcomes.
- Represent the customer function at leadership forums and ensure alignment with the global Customer Experience framework.
Customer Operations and Issue Management:
- Design and implement structured complaint management processes with clear SLAs, escalation protocols, and accountability tracking.
- Ensure all customer touchpoints (digital, call center, field, and sales channels) deliver seamless and consistent experiences.
- Lead CRM optimization for improved customer lifecycle management, data accuracy, and engagement tracking.
- Drive issue resolution efficiency and maintain transparent communication on key customer escalations.
Business Impact and Data-Driven Insights:
- Lead the collection, analysis, and reporting of customer feedback data across all operating locations.
- Translate customer analytics into actionable recommendations for improving service, products, and policies.
- Track and report on customer retention, lifetime value, churn rate, and performance of satisfaction against business goals.
- Deliver a monthly “Voice of Customer” dashboard to the Nigeria Senior Management and Global Senior Leadership Teams.
Cross Functional Collaboration and Process Optimization:
- Collaborate with relevant teams to ensure customer needs are embedded in decision-making.
- Work with relevant teams to ensure customer billing, collections, and service requests are resolved on time.
- Coordinate with the Marketing and Communications teams to develop customer education and loyalty programs.
- Facilitate alignment between frontline customer-facing teams and backend technical operations
Leadership, Culture and People Development:
- Lead, coach, and inspire a high-performing Customer Experience Team in, setting clear goals and growth plans.
- Build competencies in data-driven service delivery, problem-solving, and empathy-based communication.
- Foster a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement across the CX team.
- Represent Husk Nigeria at key stakeholder forums and external engagements related to customer experience.
Governance, Compliance and Risk Management:
- Ensure adherence to internal policies, data privacy standards, customer data protection laws and regulatory requirements.
- Develop and enforce standard operating procedures for all customer engagement processes.
- Implement internal audits and compliance checks for customer data integrity and service quality.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's / Master’s degree in relevant field. Postgraduate degree or relevant business certifications; a plus.
- 10 years of experience in customer relations management, and customer engagement including customer service across product and service organizations.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English. Fluency in Hausa; required.
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Excellent people skills, and ability to engage in a multicultural and diverse environment, with multiple internal and external industry stakeholders.
- In-depth knowledge of customer relations/engagement best practices, methodologies, and technologies, with experience in implementing customer-centric strategies.
- Experience in implementing and regularly using data processing, dashboarding, and CRM tools in fast paced service organizations with rural and peri-urban customers.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with customers and stakeholders at all levels.
- Strong leadership skills, with the ability to motivate and inspire a team to achieve departmental goals and deliver outstanding results.
- Analytical mindset with the ability to leverage data and insights to drive decision-making and customer-focused initiatives.
- Strong problem-solving and conflict-resolution skills, with the ability to handle complex customer issues and complaints effectively.
- Proven ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
- Required to manage customer engagement function to ensure 24/7 availability.
- A clearly defined strategic thought process and a continuous improvement mindset with excellent problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrates a high level of accountability and ownership of tasks.
- Ability to influence through data and business analysis.
- Confident in liaising at all levels, articulate with good presentation skills.
- Ability to work and lead effectively in cross-functional teams.
- In-depth knowledge of the power sector in Nigeria, nice to have.
- Most importantly, the candidate must fit a company spirit where people work smart, play hard, have fun, and are dedicated to success.
Salary
N1,000,000 - N1,500,000 / monthlyApplication Closing Date: Not specified
Application Instructions:
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Job Information
Deadline
Not specified
Job Type
Full-time
Industry
Customer care
Work Level
Experienced
State
Abuja
Country
Nigeria