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STUART CORK

BRISTOL

Summary

Product and Customer Experience Manager with over 10 years professional experience developing end to end customer journeys through digital channels. A wide skill set including Agile product management, customer analytics, journey mapping, strategic vision and roadmap development. A diligent data driven problem solver who is passionate about making a positive impact to the user journey, and driving innovation.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience

Work History

Product Owner

Lloyds Banking Group
Bristol
01.2025 - Current

Key Responsibilities

  • Product backlog prioritisation in relation to value and benefit including feature enhancements, BAU, incidents and technical debt
  • Articulate user stories and requirements to drive Agile and help understand the customer problem to solve.
  • Manage problems and issues arising through deployment, build, and priority changes - ability to pivot where necessary

Key Achievements

  • Delivery of multiple IP&I IFA initiatives, growing the exposure of financial products to customers
  • Support and delivery of GCP migration, in line with digital strategy for LBG

Product Manager

Taylor & Francis
05.2022 - 12.2023

Key Responsibilities

  • Roadmap ownership of multiple online digital products.
  • Practice Agile (and other) methodologies to iterate and deploy new customer and technical enhancements.
  • Market research and competitor analysis
  • Performance and benchmarking product and customer behavioural experience using PowerBI and Google Analytics
  • Analyse customer feedback from interviews, surveys and multiple 3rd party sources

Key Achievements

  • Transformed post submission journey for customers across channels, introducing status of publishing journey, support information, notifications, self serve and automation. Increased satisfaction scores as well as improving speed to publication
  • Deployed automated sanction validation check, reducing technical check time, removed need to compliance team to run checks manually.
  • Relationship management of vendor, delivering new integrations with T&F as well as end user experiences.

Telephony & Digital Specialist

OVO Energy
Bristol
04.2018 - 04.2022

Key Responsibilities

  • Product Owner of multiple telephony platforms
  • Create new customer experience across telephony and other digital channels (including email, web messenger, mobile and WhatsApp)
  • Analyse performance data to identify issues and opportunities
  • Create and generate insights to drive new initiatives using data tools including Tableau & Qualtrics, SQL & Big Query
  • Present recommendations back to stakeholders and sponsors
  • Vendor management
  • Create vision and roadmap to deliver value, and align with wider company's strategic direction.
  • Collaborative working with internal stakeholders, developers, external vendors and other project workstream leads

Key Achievements

  • Led implementation of telephony workstream on cloud based contact centre platform. Defined requirements, designed and built complex journeys and technical architecture. Workstream delivered on time and on budget.
  • 12% increase in customer identification rates, 50% reduction in transfer rates resulting in better first time resolution. Improved efficacy rate through tailored user experience.

Customer Interaction Specialist

LV=
Bristol
07.2011 - 04.2018

Key Responsibilities

  • Own LV's Customer Telephony Experience across General Insurance.
  • Use digital channels to drive customer satisfaction (web messenger, forums, surveys, mobile, social).
  • Analyse data to produce insights & recommendations on customer behaviour and performance

Key Achievements

  • Created innovative Visual IVR through LV web and mobile, reducing transfers (by 12%) Improved customer experience and talk time.
  • Overhauled customer experience in queue, improved time to abandon by 40 seconds, and created core best practices.

Operational Business Analyst

LV=
Bristol
01.2009 - 07.2011

Resource & Operations Analyst + Various

Royal & SunAlliance
Bristol
01.2004 - 06.2009

Education

Bachelor of Arts - BA (Hons) Business & Sports Studies (2:1)

De Montfort University
Bedford
2002

Skills

  • Customer Journey Mapping
  • Analytical
  • Product Management
  • Communication
  • Work Collaboratively
  • Problem Solving
  • Attention to detail
  • People Management
  • Calm under Pressure
  • Technical Aptitude
  • Decision Making
  • Creativity
  • Flexible & Adaptable
  • Documentation Management

Interests

  • Travel
  • Gym
  • Golf
  • Cycling
  • Cooking

Additional Information

References available on request via HRT&FSupport@informa.com

Timeline

Product Owner

Lloyds Banking Group
01.2025 - Current

Product Manager

Taylor & Francis
05.2022 - 12.2023

Telephony & Digital Specialist

OVO Energy
04.2018 - 04.2022

Customer Interaction Specialist

LV=
07.2011 - 04.2018

Operational Business Analyst

LV=
01.2009 - 07.2011

Resource & Operations Analyst + Various

Royal & SunAlliance
01.2004 - 06.2009

Bachelor of Arts - BA (Hons) Business & Sports Studies (2:1)

De Montfort University
STUART CORK