WHAT DOES A CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE DO?

Updated: Jun 26, 2025 - The Customer Experience Professional function focuses on understanding and fulfilling customer needs through seamless service and communication. This role involves analyzing customer feedback, resolving issues efficiently, and ensuring consistency across all touchpoints. The individual enhances satisfaction, builds loyalty, and supports long-term business success.

A Review of Professional Skills and Functions for Customer Experience

1. Customer Experience Analyst Duties

  • Customer Reporting: Create and present regular state-of-the-customer reports to team and partners
  • Trend Analysis: Develop and implement analysis and trends based on customer research efforts, through surveys, employee feedback, and direct customer conversations
  • Experience Improvement: Improve the customer experience by analyzing data, identifying trends, and partnering with internal teams
  • Insight-Driven Decisions: Drive and influence business decisions based on customer insights and data
  • Data Integration: Enable these decisions by combining data from multiple sources and compiling insights into an impactful format
  • Product Management: Manage multiple products in a fast-paced environment and collaborate with others
  • Insight Reporting: Develop standardized presentations and reports to provide ongoing insights to CX partners
  • Reporting Utilization: Work to ensure the utilization and adoption of reporting by these partners
  • Data Advisory: Advise internal stakeholder functions on data requirements necessary to perform desired analyses
  • Process Development: Participate in the development of process modifications needed to deliver the required data
  • CX Intelligence Ownership: Serve as the owner of CX business intelligence and insights analyst for customer insight gathering and the source of truth for customer feedback
  • Feedback Utilization: Help ensure that customer feedback and insights are disseminated and utilized to improve products, processes and interactions

2. Customer Experience Associate Details

  • Inquiry Response: Respond to customer inquiries promptly and thoughtfully
  • Account Assistance: Assist customers in managing their Home Chef accounts
  • First-Contact Resolution: Strive for first-contact resolution with each interaction
  • Customer Engagement: Engage positively with customers by sharing their Home Chef experience
  • Ticket Management: Provide timely responses to tickets across all channels
  • Full-Cycle Support: Provide an extraordinary, full life cycle customer experience to users through phone, email and chat support
  • Proactive Service: Anticipate customer needs and go above and beyond to ensure an efficient, seamless customer experience
  • Team Collaboration: Collaborate with other team members to ensure consistent and seamless services to Home Chef customers
  • Customer Feedback Sharing: Share themes and feedback from customers with the team to contribute to product improvements

3. Customer Experience Associate Responsibilities

  • Customer Connection: Build authentic, meaningful connections with customers by answering questions and resolving issues across various communication channels
  • Problem Ownership: Own the end-to-end process of solving a customer’s problem efficiently and effectively
  • Tool Utilization: Use customer experience processes, systems, and tools appropriately and in a way that supports data collection and analysis
  • Order Resolution: Work closely with internal and external teams to ensure a speedy resolution to order issues
  • Experience Improvement: Constantly seek ways to improve the customer experience
  • Team Collaboration: Collaborate and problem solve with teammates and the manager to resolve challenging customer experience issues
  • Product Expertise: Become a product expert and offer recommendations to customers, particularly during the holiday gifting season
  • Brand Representation: Act as the voice of Kate McLeod and embody the brand in all interactions
  • Customer Delight: Surprise and delight customers by going above and beyond their expectations
  • Composure Maintenance: Maintain perspective during difficult customer interactions

4. Customer Experience Manager Job Summary

  • Customer Journey Oversight: Overall responsibility for the customer journey about Customer Care
  • Experience Standards: Define and implement standards/procedures for ensuring optimal customer experience
  • Team Leadership: Lead the call centre team to deliver optimal performance by creating a team culture of engagement and positivity
  • Performance Review: Review team metrics to uncover opportunities and develop plans to improve team performance in line with the business strategy and the Customer's SLA
  • Key Account Management: Manage Customer Care for Key customers (defined by the organisation) by producing proactive reports, communications and delivering company-wide resolutions to any issues
  • Communication Leadership: Lead and drive best practice customer communications about Customer Care
  • Root Cause Analysis: Identifying issues and carrying out root-cause analysis, working with teams across the organisation, to resolve issues and improve processes and productivity
  • NPS Management: Manage the NPS programme as a key KPI of customer experience, including monthly, annual and ad-hoc reporting to stakeholders, and management of the NPS systems
  • Call Centre Support: Lead and manage the call centre teams, working with them to support customers
  • Process Improvement: Drive improvement in internal processes to create better customer experiences, using customer insight to drive decisions
  • Team Development: Provide Leadership and development to the Call Centre team, fostering a customer-centric culture

5. Customer Experience Representative Accountabilities

  • Inquiry Response: Respond to inbound inquiries received by phone and/or email in different queues that service internal and external customers
  • Case Documentation: Record all details of inquiries, comments and complaints as well as details of actions taken in the case management system - Salesforce
  • Order Entry: Enter different types of sales orders into Microsoft Dynamics AX or the B2B portal (Cloud) that are emailed or phoned in
  • Issue Resolution Resources: Identify and leverage the appropriate resources for resolving issues by utilizing thorough knowledge of the organization
  • Work Quality: Produce and accept personal accountability for consistently high-quality work
  • Decision Making: Make decisions that achieve the right balance between customer satisfaction and upholding the company’s principles and policies
  • Relationship Building: Nurture and improve customer relationships by thoughtfully evaluating and self-reliantly making fair decisions
  • Escalation Support: Assist Customer Experience Director/Supervisor with more challenging internal and external customer complaints or issues
  • Data Analysis: Gather and analyze data in a resourceful and self-sufficient manner when solving customer difficulties and issues
  • Product Knowledge: Gain a thorough knowledge of the full product assortment including current and retired items
  • Professional Communication: Maintain a friendly, professional tone that is respectful to customers and team members

6. Customer Experience Representative Functions

  • Product Expertise: Communicate expert knowledge of Mavic product details, configurations, and programs to customers
  • Customer Needs Assessment: Respond to email and phone inquiries, determine the needs of the customer, and provide the proper recommendations based on those needs
  • Program Guidance: Guide customers and dealers through warranty and loyalty programs
  • Order Management: Enter and maintain an accurate order book, run reports, and communicate changes to dealers and customers accordingly
  • Internal Communication: Cross-functional communication with other internal personnel and departments to resolve concerns
  • Territory Ownership: Run a territory and/or own a specified team function
  • Status Meetings: Participation in weekly status meetings with the direct manager, the indirect manager, and the team
  • Activity Reporting: Prepare any reports concerning customer service activities as required by supervisors
  • Workplace Environment: Promote a clean, safe and positive work environment

7. Customer Experience Specialist Job Description

  • Multichannel Support: Supporting customers via e-mail, phone, and other channels
  • Needs Assessment: Actively listen and identify customer needs and concerns to effectively provide top-tier service
  • Inquiry Investigation: Investigate customer inquiries and identify the proper course of action
  • Ongoing Learning: Attends vendor and department meetings for continued learning including product training, product documentation, product compliance and other functions that relate to work duties
  • Documentation Support: Responsible for providing product documentation support including manuals, data sheets, and quality certificates
  • Sales Assistance: Assists customers in making buying decisions, consistently recognizing and offering cross-sell/upsell opportunities
  • Order Processing: Processes and updates customer orders/quotes and/or changes orders/quotes in a timely and accurate manner, meeting departmental productivity metrics
  • Post-Order Support: Responds to post-order customer service requests, such as handling customer issues and complaints
  • Returns Management: Returns and communicates anticipated delays and actions being taken to provide a resolution promptly
  • Issue Resolution: Makes returns/or replacement decisions to resolve customer issues or complaints
  • Export Compliance: Responsible for national security requirements and export compliance of all transactions

8. Customer Experience Specialist Overview

  • Contact Center Support: Supports outsource contact center personnel with tools, processes and information to drive customer satisfaction
  • Customer Interaction: Interact with customers via email and over the phone to solve order and product-related issues
  • Purchase Assistance: Use resources to assist in the buying decision of customers using Polaris-managed websites and online Marketplaces
  • Product Expertise: Be a Subject Matter Expert on Polaris vehicles, parts and accessories
  • Fitment Support: Providing accurate fitment, diagnosis and support to Polaris Customers
  • Customer Satisfaction: Ensures that customers have a positive experience
  • Expectation Management: Commits to meet or exceed customer expectations
  • Issue Resolution: Facilitate problem solving, research, and dispute resolution between Polaris dealers, PG&A Technical Support, e-Commerce and consumers
  • Satisfaction Metrics: Use metrics to improve consumer satisfaction and conduct data analysis to identify root causes
  • Customer Follow-Up: Accountable for follow-up with customers to ensure problems/issues receive a timely response or resolution
  • Brand Representation: Maintain a positive representation of all Polaris brands at all times