The Customer Experience Show

Tending to the needs of the customer through Customer Service with AmerisouceBergen’s VP of Customer Operations, Devetta James

Episode Summary

AmerisourceBergen's VP of Customer Operations, Devetta James joins The Customer Experience Show to discuss the voice of the customer. Every customer is different and every customer has a different need. The job of a CXO is to find those needs and fix them.

Episode Notes

Every customer is different and has different needs. As VP of Customer Operations at AmerisourceBergen, Devetta James knows this and works to implement systems that are personalized to those various needs. In this episode, she also talks about listening to the customer’s voice, implementing operational changes, and much more. 

3 Takeaways:

• It's important to remember that every decision that gets made may not be the right decision for every customer and the job of the CXO is to decide what is best for the majority of their customers.
• The job of a CX leader is to fix a problem before the customer has told you how they want it fixed.
• In order to have a great customer experience, you need to make sure that everyone on your team has bought into your CX vision, and having open discussions with them about their client conversations is one way to get everyone on the same page.

Key Quotes:

• “It can never be black and white with the customer because every customer is different, But in theory, the process of what we need to understand is the same. So we make sure that we address those different themes with all the customers to understand their translation.”
• “If a customer says something on a survey, we do a query for all of our calls to see if it's a theme, and if we see things in our calls, we then do a survey to the customer to get a better understanding of what that means to them.”
• "You not only need to understand the persona of your customer, you need to translate that into how you operate for those personas."

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Bio:

With over 20 years of experience in healthcare operations, Devetta James offers a unique blend of leadership, vision, and knowledge. She is the Senior Vice President of Customer Operations for AmerisourceBergen and her vision is to provide exceptional experiences through integrated service and support.

Devetta has been with AmerisourceBergen since 2006 and has a passion for connecting people, process, and technology. Devetta currently leads the customer service, customer integration and data management, customer platform support, clinical account services, and account experience and commercial analytics teams.

In addition to her role as a leader, Devetta is one of the founding members of the Black Leadership Council now known as BOND, Black Organization for Network and Development, an Employee Resource Group at AmerisourceBergen. She is on the board of Imagine Well, a non-profit organization whose goal is to educate and empower its clients in their respective fields to refine their focus and production output within the community and Camp Summit, a non-profit whose mission is to provide barrier-free outdoor experiences that promote personal growth and foster independence for children and adults with disabilities.

Devetta holds a Master of Science in training and development from Amberton University and a Bachelor of Science in business administration from Northwood University. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her husband, family, and friends, catching a good movie, and listening to great music