WGL Energy - Customer Experience & Retention Lead

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Vienna, VA, USA
In-Office
95K-110K Annually
Senior level
Energy
The Role
Lead customer retention and call center operations by developing retention strategies, managing vendor partnerships, handling escalations, analyzing data and performance trends, improving processes and knowledge tools, resolving billing and enrollment issues, ensuring compliance, supporting audits, and collaborating with internal teams to improve customer experience and operational outcomes.
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WGL Energy - Customer Experience & Retention Lead

WGL Energy is looking for a customer-focused, analytical, and hands-on professional to lead key work across customer retention, call center operations, vendor partnership, escalations, and process improvement.

This is a highly visible individual contributor role that wears a lot of hats. You will work closely with internal teams and external partners to ensure customers are supported, issues are resolved, and retention strategies are informed by data, customer trends, and operational insights.

No two days will look the same. The right person will enjoy solving problems, digging into details, identifying root causes, and finding fair, practical solutions that support both the customer experience and business outcomes.

What You’ll Do

In this role, you will help drive customer retention and operational performance across WGL Energy’s residential and commercial customer base.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Develop and support customer retention strategies based on customer insights, market trends, operational data, and business priorities

  • Partner closely with call center/vendor leadership to support service delivery, CSAT performance, customer retention, and day-to-day operational execution

  • Act as an escalation point for complex customer issues, ensuring timely resolution, appropriate follow-up, and a strong customer experience

  • Monitor call center performance trends, customer inquiries, data entry accuracy, memo coding, and recurring operational issues

  • Review reporting and customer interaction data to identify patterns, root causes, and opportunities for corrective action

  • Maintain and improve knowledge management tools used by call center teams and external partners

  • Lead recurring operational touchpoints focused on escalations, process gaps, service levels, and performance trends

  • Support billing-related issue resolution, including enrollment errors, customer status changes, ETF calculations, and reporting accuracy

  • Ensure customer processes and campaign activity align with corporate policies, regulatory requirements, and compliance expectations

  • Serve as a liaison for internal audits and support required documentation, insights, and follow-up

  • Collaborate with Marketing, Billing Operations, Compliance, Sales, external vendors, and other internal stakeholders to support customer satisfaction and business outcomes

  • Identify opportunities to improve processes, training materials, tools, and ways of working across the customer experience ecosystem

What You’ll Bring

The successful candidate will bring a blend of customer experience, call center operations, retention, and vendor management experience.

  • 5+ years of experience in customer experience, call center operations, customer retention, vendor management, or a related operational role

  • Prior call center experience or strong exposure to call center operations, metrics, service levels, escalations, and customer issue resolution

  • Experience using data to identify trends, understand cause and effect, and recommend practical actions or process improvements

  • Strong relationship management skills, with the ability to partner effectively with external vendors, internal teams, and stakeholders at different levels

  • A customer-first mindset and the ability to think quickly, problem solve, and remain balanced in complex or fast-moving situations

  • Strong attention to detail, especially when reviewing billing, reporting, customer account information, or operational processes

  • Comfort working in an environment where priorities can shift and not everything is fully documented

  • Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain issues, present recommendations, and influence action

  • Experience with tools such as Salesforce, Microsoft Office, DocuSign, Tableau, or Power BI would be an asset

  • Energy, utilities, or regulated industry experience is strongly preferred, but not required

  • A bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, or a related field is preferred

Why Join WGL Energy?

  • Solving real customer problems — stepping into complex situations, understanding what happened, and finding fair and practical solutions

  • Working in a fast-paced, varied role — no two days are exactly the same, and the work touches retention, operations, escalations, compliance, billing, and vendor partnership

  • Influencing how work gets done — identifying trends, improving processes, strengthening documentation, and helping teams operate more effectively

  • You will be joining a collaborative environment where your ability to build relationships, use data, and improve the customer experience will directly support business performance and customer loyalty

The role offers a competitive salary range of $95,400 to $109,625 per year, commensurate with experience, education, and skills. We also provide a comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off.

The Company values diversity in its workforce and encourages United States military veterans and service members who meet the qualifications to apply.

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For Canadian hires: AltaGas hires personnel on the basis of job-related qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to a person's ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, record of offences, marital status, family status or disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

For U.S. hires: WGL/SEMCO/AltaGas offers a total rewards package that includes competitive pay, incentive bonus plans, holiday pay, 401K matching and a wide array of benefits. These benefits including medical, dental and vision coverage are designed to help you and your family stay healthy. We also have paid time off (PTO) to balance the demands of your work and personal life. Available benefits vary depending upon the specifics of the role.

U.S. affiliates of AltaGas are committed to equal employment opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, age, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, family responsibilities, matriculation, physical or mental disabilities, political affiliation, genetic information, status as a protected veteran or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

Skills Required

  • 5+ years of experience in customer experience, call center operations, customer retention, vendor management, or related operational role
  • Prior call center experience or strong exposure to call center operations, metrics, service levels, escalations, and customer issue resolution
  • Experience using data to identify trends, understand cause and effect, and recommend practical actions or process improvements
  • Strong relationship management skills with ability to partner effectively with external vendors and internal stakeholders
  • Customer-first mindset with ability to problem solve and remain balanced in complex or fast-moving situations
  • Strong attention to detail when reviewing billing, reporting, customer account information, or operational processes
  • Comfort working in an environment where priorities can shift and documentation may be incomplete
  • Strong communication skills including explaining issues, presenting recommendations, and influencing action
  • Experience with tools such as Salesforce, Microsoft Office, DocuSign, Tableau, or Power BI
  • Energy, utilities, or regulated industry experience
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, or a related field
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The Company
HQ: Calgary, Alberta
2,538 Employees
Year Founded: 1994

What We Do

We are a leading North American infrastructure company connecting customers and markets to affordable and reliable sources of energy. Every day, we leverage the strength of our people and our assets to connect our customers with premier energy solutions – from the well sites of upstream producers, to the doorsteps of homes and businesses, to markets around the world. With a strong portfolio of assets in some of the fastest growing energy markets, including a prominent position in the Montney basin and Utilities in key U.S. jurisdictions, we are developing an integrated footprint capable of delivering sustained value to shareholders and customers for many years to come.

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