Key Accounts Manager - Ajax, Canada - Elexicon Energy Inc.

Elexicon Energy Inc.

Verified Company

Ajax, Canada

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

Elexicon Energy is the fourth-largest municipally owned electricity distributor in Ontario.

Our mission is to provide our customers with reliable, affordable energy services and to continuously improve to meet their needs, while ensuring the needs of our shareholders are met through sustainable growth.

WHY JOIN OUR TEAM?

At Elexicon Energy we believe in living and leading our values through our daily actions.

Our people are passionate about what they do and are engaged in day-to-day operations, projects and initiatives to support Our Why of empowering the communities we serve and helping customers create the possibilities that energize their future.

This is an exciting time to join our growing team as we develop the strategies and plans to support a new brand and vision for customer centricity and operational excellence

This role is responsible for working with multiple departments across the organization to provide an integrated and comprehensive customer experience to large customers, key accounts, and priority accounts.

Key partners across the organization include power quality and reliability, investment planning, standards, regulatory affairs, government relations, customer care, the control room, and the broader connections team.

The successful incumbent will be responsible for building and maintaining strategic relationships, including facilitating creative solutions that balance the needs of distribution system and customers.

They will ensure Senior leaders engage in evolving issues, changing customer business needs, and industry trends while acting as a liaison between the utility and the customer.

This can include responding to customer outage and reliability inquiries, billing concerns, questions related to net-zero and decarbonization initiatives, overseeing customer connections where appropriate, supporting process revisions, communicating the utility's needs to the large customer base, or ensuring that customers are aware of impactful items in a proactive manner.

This position initially reports to the Vice President, Customer Experience at the Ajax location and is responsible for the daily activities as follows:

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Proactively manages relationships between Elexicon Energy and identified large customers and key accounts, including delivering a superior customer experience through monitoring customer needs and industry trends, identifying Elexicon Energy's business needs and respective outreach, and ensuring a meeting frequency sufficient to support a proactive engagement model.
Responds to customer service inquiries and escalations with respect to their interactions with Elexicon Energy, including but not limited to power quality/reliability, billing, rates, new service connections/expansions, conservation programs, and Ontario Energy Board/Ministry of Energy/IESO programs.
Follow up with internal stakeholders and act as a single point of contact to address and promptly respond to customer escalations. Maintains timely and complete records for large customers and key account management, reporting, and analytics through standard systems, tools, and dashboards as necessary.
Maintains effective relationships with assigned large customers and key accounts and key internal and external stakeholders; critically assesses feedback from customers, including regulators and other stakeholders, to ensure that internal business processes are responsive to customer needs.
As required, supports key account outage management through the key account and customer care process, providing direct (proactive and reactive, as needed) evening and weekend support to key accounts during power outage events.
Provide support to other Elexicon Energy departments in executing planned and reactive work by arranging load transfers, cogeneration curtailment, and planned outages by communicating and coordinating with large customers, key accounts, and developers.
Addresses customer concerns by working with stakeholders to minimize impacts. Communicates messaging compliant with regulatory and disclosure requirements. Recommends areas of service improvements and provides data required to support recommendations, investment decisions, and key account program development.
Provides inputs in developing new marketing and promotional initiatives; collaborates with the Communications, Marketing and Public Affairs team on special events and communications; prepares and delivers presentations to external and internal stakeholders to support the large and key account program.
Reports and maintains records of customer interactions with quality and accuracy using available tools. Provides analysis and insight into customer behaviors to support management decisionmaking.

KEY SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

Excellent organizational skills, including prioritization, strategic negotiation, facilitation, written/verbal communication, critical thinking, collaboration, and relationship management.
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