In this episode of CCMA’s CareerTalk podcast, our CEO Leigh Hopwood speaks with James Wilson, Interim Head of Supplier Service Management at Barclays Customer Care.

Leigh talks to James about what a typical day and week looks like as an operations lead for one of the UK’s largest financial services organisations. They discuss James’s career to date, his entry into the industry via NatWest’s contact centre, how he got the opportunity to enter the bank’s Services Leadership Development Programme, and his subsequent elevation into senior management.

James also details the challenge of overseeing vulnerable customer interactions in his current role with Barclays Customer Care, including bereavement calls and the effects this type of interaction has on his colleagues, the customers and himself personally. He discusses the importance of variety in contact centre roles – and an interesting recent project he’s started overseeing at Barclays involving envelopes…

Listen to the episode in full:

Listen to previous guests from series four, including:

• Brenda Beavon, Customer Services Solutions Director, ArvataConnect
• Jon Hall, Customer Experience Manager, Fibrus
• Hannah Ratcliff-Barnes, HSBC
• Rachel Hulme, Head of Operations, Liberata
• Michael O’Brien, First Customer Contact

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