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About Covista
Covista is America's largest healthcare educator, serving more than 97,000 students and supported by a community of 385,000 alumni across five accredited institutions. Through personalized, tech-enabled education powered by 10,000 faculty and colleagues, Covista expands access to healthcare careers and addresses the U.S. healthcare workforce shortage at scale. Covista is the parent company of American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, Chamberlain University, Ross University School of Medicine, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine and Walden University.
Our colleagues come from a wide range of backgrounds, business, academia, healthcare, government and nonprofits, and are part of a culture where doing exceptional work and making a meaningful difference for students and society aren't separate goals—they're one and the same. This means creating an environment where colleagues can develop new skills, build careers that match their ambitions and see the tangible impact of their work on healthcare education and workforce development. Colleagues who deliver results and embrace new tools to work smarter are valued for their contributions. But what makes working at Covista distinctive is our impact. Our faculty and colleagues don't just support healthcare education—they shape it. This isn't abstract purpose work. It's solving real problems for real people in real communities while advancing careers.
We operate on a hybrid schedule with four in-office days per week (Monday–Thursday). This approach enhances creativity, innovation, communication, and relationship-building, fostering a dynamic and collaborative work environment.
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Opportunity at a Glance

The Manager, Experience & Insights leads Covista's Voice of the Customer (VoC) program and manages a team of Experience Analysts responsible for transforming customer feedback, behavioral analytics, conversation intelligence, and journey data into actionable business insights.

This role serves as a strategic partner across Marketing, Enrollment, Learning & Development, Operations, Quality Experience, and Technology to improve the prospective and student experience and drive performance. As the operational leader of the Experience Ecosystem this manager will support under the direction of the Director of Experience, this position oversees customer listening strategies, experience analytics, journey insights, and executive reporting to enable data-driven decision making and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities

• Lead the Voice of the Customer (VoC) program by establishing governance, experience measurement strategies, reporting standards, and best practices that translate customer feedback into meaningful business improvements.

• Lead the Experience Ecosystem by overseeing customer listening programs, Qualtrics dashboards, behavioral analytics, conversation intelligence, journey analytics, and AI-enabled insights while ensuring data quality and adoption across the organization

• Drive customer journey optimization by identifying friction points, analyzing customer behaviors and sentiment, measuring marketing and enrollment effectiveness, and recommending strategies that improve engagement, conversion, and the prospective student experience.

• Deliver strategic business insights through executive dashboards, scorecards, presentations, and actionable recommendations that support organizational priorities, marketing strategies, enrollment performance, and executive decision-making.

• Lead, develop, and coach a high-performing team of Experience and Voice of the Customer Analysts by establishing priorities, fostering innovation and accountability, and building analytical, storytelling, and consulting capabilities.

• Serve as a strategic business partner across Marketing, Enrollment, Learning & Development, Operations, Quality Experience, Technology, and executive leadership to drive customer-centric decision making and continuous improvement.

• Manage multiple strategic initiatives while supporting expansion of the Experience Ecosystem and ensuring alignment with organizational goals.

• Performs other duties as assigned

• Complies with all policies and standards

• Bachelor's Degree in related field, or equivalent experience required
• 3+ years in Customer Experience (CX), Voice of the Customer (VoC), Experience Management, Marketing Analytics, Business Intelligence, Enrollment, Operations, or related field required
• Knowledge of Voice of the Customer methodologies, customer journey mapping, experience management, behavioral analytics, and business intelligence principles.
• Ability to translate complex data into strategic, actionable business recommendations through strong analytical, critical thinking, and executive storytelling skills.
• Strong leadership, coaching, project management, and change management capabilities with the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills with experience communicating to executive audiences.
• Ability to lead multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment while fostering innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and experience with reporting and visualization platforms such as Qualtrics, Power BI, Tableau, Looker, or similar technologies.
• Substantive experience in competitive market analysis and product/solution development with demonstrated success identifying, building, launching, and scaling new offerings that extend customer relationships, expand market presence, and drive commercial success.
• A self-motivated individual, who is metrics-driven, and brings a disciplined approach to strategy execution. Results-driven, one will bring outstanding strategic capabilities and strong business acumen.
• Growth, sustaining double-digit annual growth.
• A self-motivated individual, who is metrics-driven, and brings a disciplined approach to strategy execution. Results-driven, one will bring outstanding strategic capabilities and strong business acumen.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.

In support of the pay transparency laws enacted across the country, the expected salary range for this position is between $61721.00 and $111584.75. Actual pay will be adjusted based on job-related factors permitted by law, such as experience and training; geographic location; licensure and certifications; market factors; departmental budgets; and responsibility. Our Talent Acquisition Team will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements. The position qualifies for the below benefits.
Covista offers a robust suite of benefits including:

• Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
• 401k Retirement Program + 6% employer match
• Participation in Covista’s Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy
• 12 Paid Holidays
  For more information related to our benefits please visit:
  https://careers.covista.com/benefits
  You are also eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

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