Packard Culligan Water is launching a Customer Retention Specialist Pilot and is seeking interested internal candidates who want to help shape this new initiative. This role is designed to strengthen customer relationships, reduce churn, and ensure long‑term customer satisfaction by proactively addressing concerns, resolving service issues, and delivering exceptional support.
The Customer Retention Specialist will focus on understanding customer needs, identifying accounts at risk of cancellation, and implementing strategies that increase loyalty, trust, and retention. This position serves as a key advocate for the customer while balancing company goals, policies, and service standards.
The Customer Retention Specialist strengthens customer relationships, reduces churn, and ensures long‑term satisfaction by proactively addressing concerns, resolving service issues, and delivering exceptional support. This role identifies customers at risk of quitting Culligan services and implements retention strategies that build loyalty and trust.
Serve as the primary contact for customers expressing dissatisfaction, service concerns, or cancellation requests.
Conduct outbound retention calls to customers at risk of quitting Culligan services.
Build trust‑based relationships through consistent, professional communication.
Maintain strong knowledge of Culligan products, services, and value propositions.
Investigate customer concerns by collaborating with service, route, billing, and operations teams.
Resolve issues promptly and accurately while ensuring customers feel heard and valued.
Document all interactions, resolutions, and follow‑up actions in the CRM.
Track recurring issues and escalate trends to leadership.
Identify patterns in customer behavior and recommend strategies to reduce churn.
Meet or exceed monthly retention goals and save rates.
Provide feedback to leadership on service improvement opportunities.
Partner with Customer Service Representatives, Route/Service teams, and Billing to ensure seamless support.
Communicate clearly and professionally across phone, email, and Teams.
Maintain accurate documentation of all customer interactions.
Support cross‑functional projects that enhance customer satisfaction and retention.
High school diploma or equivalent.
1–3 years of experience in customer service, retention, account management, or related field.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Proven ability to de‑escalate difficult situations and build rapport quickly.
Excellent problem‑solving skills with a customer‑first mindset.
Ability to multitask, prioritize, and manage time effectively.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office.
Experience in service‑based industries (water treatment, utilities, home services, telecom, etc.).
Knowledge of retention strategies, customer lifecycle management, or customer experience best practices.
Packard Culligan Water is a family-owned company with values based on relationships, unity, listening, and leading locally. Our vision is a timeless responsibility to elevate people's lives through water.
The people we serve and the people we work with are our neighbors, and we continually earn their trust by providing better water where they live work, and play.
We are a group of 34 Culligan Water dealerships in 10 different states and nearly 600 employees. Founded in 1946, our dealership and headquarters is located in Minnetonka, Minnesota. We serve a large geographic portion of Minneapolis and the surrounding suburbs. We have dealership locations that serve residents and businesses in Arizona, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New York, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Our dealerships are locally run by employees who are a part of the communities that they serve.
We offer the best drinking water and the largest variety of water treatment products and services available for your home or business including water softeners, water filtration systems, reverse osmosis drinking water systems, delivered bottled water, softener salt delivery, equipment installation, and repair service. Culligan products are built to last and are backed by a 100% satisfaction guarantee as well as the best trained and experienced service technicians in the industry.
We strive to deliver the gold standard in our industry and set the tone for professionalism and development. If you are looking for an opportunity to grow your career, you could be one of our people here at Culligan Water.
