Customer Service Director

Career Area: Customer and Client Support

Occupation Group: Customer Service Managers

Salary

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An example would be the 25th percentile, 25 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 75 percent earn more than the estimated wage value. At the 75th percentile, 75 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 25 percent earn more than the estimated wage value.

A typical Customer Service Director earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $95,435

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $93,906

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Directs customer service activities for a company. Develops and directs the implementation of customer service policies for company products and oversees customer service staff. Analyzes customer sales and service data and customer feedback.

Employment Trends

The job demand and job growth statistics shown here were derived from job posts over the past year. Expected job growth projections are extrapolated from year-over-year job post listing history.

Job demand and job growth is expected at the following rates:

Skills

A professional in this position typically utilizes the following skills in the course of everyday work in this exciting and challenging field:

Baseline Skills

The following are baseline skills every Customer Service Director is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Teamwork / Collaboration: Experience working in collaborative efforts with a team to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in the most effective and efficient way.
• Building Effective Relationships: Building relationships is about your ability to identify and initiate working relationships and to develop and maintain them in a way that is of mutual benefit to both yourself and the other party. Good relationships are the key to getting things done and are essential when your success is dependent on others.
• Problem Solving: Problem solving consists of using generic or ad hoc methods, in an orderly manner, for finding solutions to problems.
• Planning: Working experience with the process of thinking about and organizing the activities required to achieve desired goals.

Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Customer Service: Working experience with the provision of service to customers before, during and after a purchase.
• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): Experience of analyzing a project or company and communicating it's success in terms of the measured performance of activities
• Budgeting: Experience planning how the financial resources of a business or department are to be allocated during the next business period.
• Project Management: Project management is the discipline of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria.
• Customer Contact: Experience working with business processes and technologies that are designed to engage customers and facilitate communication by a variety of channels.

Distinguishing Skills

Any Customer Service Director that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• Customer Retention: Customer retention refers to the ability of a company or product to retain its customers over some specified period.
• Business Planning: Experience constructing a document that brings together the perspectives of many business teams including finance, human resources, intellectual property management, and marketing to create a credible understanding of the future of the company for someone who is unfamiliar with the business.
• Product Management: Product management is an organizational lifecycle function within a company dealing with the planning, forecasting, and production, or marketing of a product or products at all stages of the product lifecycle.
• Key Performance Metrics: Working experience of Key Performance Metrics. A Key Performance Indicator (KPI) is a measurable value that demonstrates how effectively a company is achieving key business objectives. Organizations use KPIs to evaluate their success at reaching targets.
• Employee Engagement: Employee engagement is a property of the relationship between an organization and its employees.

Salary Boosting Skills

A professional who wishes to excel in this career path may consider developing the following highly valued skills:

• People Development:
• Business Acumen: Keenness and quickness in understanding and dealing with business situations in a manner that is likely to lead to good outcomes.

Experience

This position typically requires the following level of experience. The numbers presented in the pie charts below were derived from actual job posts over the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Common Job Titles

It is possible to find work in this field in positions commonly listed as the following job titles:

• Director Of Customer Service
• Director, Customer Service
• Customer Service Director
• Director, Client Success
• Client Success Director

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• Customer Success Manager
• Customer Service Manager